Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
ぶん
Grade: 1
ちん
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
文鎭 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(ぶん)(ちん) (bunchin

  1. paperweight
    • 1912, 夏目漱石, 彼岸過迄:
      (かれ)(つくえ)(うえ)にあった(おも)文鎮(ぶんちん)()って、突然(とつぜん)これで(ひと)(ころ)せるだろうかと(たず)ねた。
      Kare wa tsukue no ue ni atta omoi bunchin o totte, totsuzen kore de hito ga koroseru darō ka to tazuneta.
      He picked up the heavy paperweight on top of the desk and asked out of the blue if one could kill a person with it.
  2. (computing slang, figurative) brick (an electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete)

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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