夜船
Japanese edit
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 夜 | 船 |
| よ Grade: 2 |
ふね Grade: 2 |
| kun’yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 夜舟 |
Etymology edit
From Old Japanese 夜船 (yopune).[1] Found in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.[2]
Analyzable as a compound of 夜 (yo, “night”) + 船 (fune, “boat, ship”).[1][3][4][5][6]
Also encountered as yobune.[1][3][4][5][6] The fune changes to bune as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- a boat or ship travelling at night
Derived terms edit
- 白河夜船 (shirakawa yofune): being fast asleep, dead to the world when sleeping; pretending to know everything, a know-it-all manner
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ , text here
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 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
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN