三下り半
Japanese
edit| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 三 | 下 | 半 |
| み Grade: 1 |
くだ Grade: 1 |
はん Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi | ||
Alternative forms
editEtymology
editLiterally "three and a half lines". During the Edo period, a husband could divorce his wife by writing a formalized note consisting of three fixed lines of text.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit三下り半 • (mikudarihan)
- a letter of divorce given from a husband to a wife
- divorce
See also
editCategories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 三 read as み
- Japanese terms spelled with 下 read as くだ
- Japanese terms spelled with 半 read as はん
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 3 kanji