千歳
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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千 | 歳 |
ち Grade: 1 |
とせ Grade: S |
kun’yomi |
Alternative spellings |
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千歲 (kyūjitai) 千年 |
Pronunciation edit
- (Tokyo) ちとせ [ch
ìtósé] (Heiban – [0])[1] - (Tokyo) ちとせ [ch
ìtóꜜsè] (Nakadaka – [2]) - IPA(key): [t͡ɕi̥to̞se̞]
Noun edit
Proper noun edit
- a female given name
- Chitose (a city in Ishikari, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a district of Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a village in Chitose district, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a village in Ōtomari district, Karafuto prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a village in Higashimurayama district, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a village in Asai district, Chiba Prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a village in Awa district, Chiba Prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a village in Minamikuwada district, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a village in Kitatama district, Tokyo prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a village in Kanzaki district, Saga Prefecture, Japan)
- (historical) Chitose (a village in Ōno district, Ōita Prefecture, Japan)
Etymology 2 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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千 | 歳 |
ち Grade: 1 |
とせ Grade: S |
kun’yomi |
Alternative spellings |
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千歲 (kyūjitai) 千載 |
From Middle Chinese 千歲 (MC tshen sjwejH, “thousand years of age”).
Noun edit
- Synonym of 千年 (sennen, “a millennium; a thousand years; very long time”)
- a role in the 翁 (Okina) routine in Noh
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