おやこ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
親子 母子 母娘 父子 父娘

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞ja̠ko̞]

Noun

おやこ • (oyako) 

1. 親子: parent and child
   1. 母子: mother and son
      • 2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi with Yamada, Kotaro, “第(だい)43話(わ)　母(はは)の願(ねが)い”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], Jump Remix edition, volume 5 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 269:

        これが始(し)祖(そ)竜(りゅう)の末(まつ)裔(えい)…ただの無(む)垢(く)な母(おや)子(こ)ではないか

        Kore ga Shisoryū no matsuei… Tada no muku na oyako de wa nai ka

        Are those really descendants of the First Dragon… Aren’t they just an ordinary, innocent pair of mother and son?

   2. 母娘: mother and daughter
   3. 父子: father and son
   4. 父娘: father and daughter
2. 親子: a dish with both chicken and egg

Derived terms

• 親子丼(おやこどん) (oyakodon)