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コンビニ

Japanese edit

Etymology edit

Clipping of コンビニエンスストア (konbiniensu sutoa), itself from American English convenience store.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

コンビニ • (konbini) 

  1. convenience store (US); corner shop (UK); corner store (Canada, Australia)

Descendants edit

  • → English: konbini

References edit

  1. ^ “コンビニ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ “コンビニ”, in デジタル大辞泉‎[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  5. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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