むえんぼとけ

Japanese

Alternative spelling
無縁仏

Etymology

From 無縁(むえん) (muen) + 仏(ほとけ) (hotoke). The hotoke changes to botoke as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) むえんぼとけ [mùéńbóꜜtòkè] (Nakadaka – [4])
• IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ẽ̞mbo̞to̞ke̞]

Noun

むえんぼとけ • (muenbotoke) ^{←むえんぼとけ (muenbotoke)?}

1. decedent without carers