不老不死

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
不	老	不	死
ふ Grade: 4	ろう Grade: 4	ふ Grade: 4	し Grade: 3
goon	on’yomi	goon	on’yomi

Etymology edit

Analyzable as 不老(ふろう) (furō, “ageless, not aging, forever young”) + 不死(ふし) (fushi, “immortal, never dying”).

Likely originally from written Chinese 不老不死. Compare modern Mandarin 不老不死 (bùlǎobùsǐ). First cited in Japanese to the Utsubo Monogatari of the late 900s.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) ふろーふし [fùróó fúꜜshì] (Nakadaka – [4])^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝɾo̞ː ɸɯ̟ᵝɕi]

Noun edit

不(ふ)老(ろう)不(ふ)死(し) • (furō fushi) ^{←ふらうふし (furaufusi)^?}

[from 1179] eternal youth, perpetual youth and immortality

Derived terms edit

不老不死(ふろうふし)の霊薬(れいやく) (furō fushi no reiyaku, “elixir of life”)

See also edit

不老長寿(ふろうちょうじゅ) (furō chōju, “ageless and long-lived”)

References edit

^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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

“不老不死”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000

“不老不死”, in デジタル大辞泉‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term
不	老	不	死

Noun edit

不老不死 • (bullobulsa) (hangeul 불로불사)

Hanja form^? of 불로불사 (“perpetual youth and longevity”).

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