ドル箱

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
箱
はこ > ばこ Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology edit

From ドル (doru, “dollar”) + 箱(はこ) (hako, “box”), coined by analogy with 千(せん)両(りょう)箱(ばこ) (senryōbako). The hako changes to bako as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) ドルばこ [dòrúbákó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [do̞ɾɯ̟ᵝba̠ko̞]

Noun edit

ドル箱(ばこ) • (dorubako)

(informal) someone or something lucrative; cash cow

Synonyms edit

儲(もう)かる (mōkaru) (verb)

References edit

^ 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

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