親文字
Japanese edit
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 親 | 文 | 字 |
| おや Grade: 2 |
もん > も Grade: 1 |
じ Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi | irregular | goon |
Etymology edit
Compound of 親 (oya, “parent”) + 文字 (moji, “character, letter”).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation edit
- (Tokyo) おやもじ [òyá móꜜjì] (Nakadaka – [3])[3]
- (Tokyo) おやもじ [òyá mójí] (Heiban – [0])[3]
- IPA(key): [o̞ja̠ mo̞ʑi]
Noun edit
- synonym of 親字 (oyaji, “Han character dictionary headword”)
- synonym of 大文字 (ōmoji, “a capital letter”)
- synonym of 頭文字 (kashiramoji, “initial letter”)
- (printing) synonym of 母型 (bokei, “matrix for casting an individual character sort”)
- (typography) parent or base character (main text character, as opposed to ruby character)
- Coordinate term: ルビ (rubi, “ruby character”)
References edit
- ^ “親文字”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- ^ “親文字”, in デジタル大辞泉[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN