吹雪
Chinese edit
to blow; blast; puff to blow; blast; puff; boast; brag; end in failure |
snow | ||
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trad. (吹雪) | 吹 | 雪 | |
simp. #(吹雪) | 吹 | 雪 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
吹雪
- (meteorology) drifting snow or blowing snow
Derived terms edit
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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吹 | 雪 |
ふぶき | |
Grade: S | Grade: 2 |
jukujikun |
Alternative spellings |
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乱吹 吹雪き |
Etymology edit
The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 吹雪く (fubuku, “to blow violently (said of wind); to blow a snowstorm”).[1][2][3]
The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), borrowed from Chinese 吹雪 (chuīxuě).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- a blizzard, a snowstorm
- many flat objects blown away by the wind, like snowflakes in a blizzard
- 花吹雪
- hanafubuki
- a flurry of cherry blossoms
- 花吹雪
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
- 吹雪和え (fubuki-ae)
- 吹雪松 (fubuki no matsu)
- 吹雪花 (fubukibana)
- 吹雪月 (Fubukizuki)
- 桜吹雪 (sakura fubuki)
- 紙吹雪 (kami fubuki)
- 地吹雪 (ji fubuki)
- 匂吹雪 (nioi fubuki)
- 花吹雪 (hana fubuki)
- 雪吹雪 (yuki fubuki)
Proper noun edit
- a Harusame-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War
- Hypernym: 春雨 (Harusame)
- a class of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (see Fubuki-class destroyer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
- a Fubuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (see Japanese destroyer Fubuki (1927) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
- a female given name
References edit
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth 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