目覚まし時計
Japanese
editKanji in this term | |||
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目 | 覚 | 時 | 計 |
め Grade: 1 |
さ > ざ Grade: 4 |
とき > ど Grade: 2 |
けい Grade: 2 |
kun'yomi | irregular | kan'on |
Alternative spellings |
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目覺まし時計 (kyūjitai) 目覚し時計 |
Etymology
editCompound of 目覚まし (mezamashi, “waking, wakeup”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 目覚ます (mezamasu, “to wake someone up”).) + 時計 (tokei, “clock”).[1][2] The tokei changes to dokei as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit目覚まし時計 • (mezamashidokei)
Related terms
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- Japanese terms spelled with 目 read as め
- Japanese terms spelled with 覚 read as さ
- Japanese terms spelled with 時
- Japanese terms spelled with 計 read as けい
- Japanese terms read with irregular kanji readings
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 4 kanji
- ja:Clocks