砂時計

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
砂	時	計
すな Grade: 6	とき > ど Grade: 2	けい Grade: 2
Irregular

Etymology

From 砂 (suna, “sand”) +‎ 時計 (tokei, “timepiece”). The tokei reading for 時計 changes to dokei as an instance of rendaku (連濁). 時計 is jukujikun (熟字訓).

Pronunciation

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) すなど​けー [sùnádóꜜkèè] (Nakadaka – [3])
  • IPA^(key): [sɨᵝna̠do̞ke̞ː]

Noun

砂時計 (hiragana すなどけい, rōmaji sunadokei)

1. an hourglass

Synonyms

• 砂 (さ)漏 (ろう) (sarō)

References