火箸

Chinese

		fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving	chopsticks
trad. (火箸)		火	箸
simp. #(火箸)		火	箸

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hér-tīr / hé-tī / hóe-tī

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hér-tīr
    • Tâi-lô: hér-tīr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hə⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tɯ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hé-tī
    • Tâi-lô: hé-tī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hefdi
    • IPA (Taipei): /he⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ti³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /he⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ti²²/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hóe-tī
    • Tâi-lô: hué-tī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoefdi
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hue⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ti³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ti²²/

Noun

火箸

1. (Southern Min) fire tongs

Synonyms

• 火鉗／火钳 (huǒqián)
• (Hokkien) 火夾／火夹

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
火	箸
ひ Grade: 1	はし > ばし Grade: S
kun’yomi

From 火(ひ) (hi, “fire”) + 箸(はし) (hashi, “chopsticks”). The hashi changes to bashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ひ​ばし [híꜜbàshì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [çiba̠ɕi]

Noun

火(ひ)箸(ばし) • (hibashi) 

1. fire tongs

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
火	箸
こ Grade: 1	じ Grade: S
tōon	irregular

Alternative spellings
火匙 火筯 (deprecated)

The pronunciation is derived from the alternative spelling 火匙(こ​じ) (ko​ji), although the word is now more commonly written with the character 箸.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) こ​じ [kóꜜjì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ʑi]

Noun

火(こ)箸(じ) • (koji) 

1. fire tongs
2. (in Kōdō, the traditional Japanese art of incense burning) metal chopsticks used to manipulate the charcoal used