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立ち食い (tachigui): a stand-and-eat sushi shop.
Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
く > ぐ
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
立食い

Etymology

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Compound of 立ち (tachi, standing, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 立つ tatsu, “to stand”) +‎ 食い (kui, eating, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 食う kuu, “to eat”, masculine informal).[1][2] The kui changes to gui as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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()() (tachiguiたちぐひ (tatigufi)?

  1. standing and eating
  2. eating at a street stall or other establishment that has no seating

Verb

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()()する (tachigui surusuru (stem ()() (tachigui shi), past ()()した (tachigui shita))

  1. to eat while standing
  2. to eat at a street stall or other establishment that has no seating

Conjugation

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.