競歩

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
競	歩
きょう Grade: 4	ほ Grade: 2
kan’yōon	kan’on

Alternative spelling
競步 (kyūjitai)

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競歩

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Racewalking

競歩 (kyōho): the 2005 racewalking championship competition.

Etymology edit

*/kjauho/ → */kjɔːho/ → /kjoːho/

May be a coinage in Japanese from Middle Chinese-derived roots, as a compound of 競 (kyō, “competition, race”) +‎ 歩 (ho, “walking”).

First appears in texts from 1932.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) きょーほ [kyóꜜòhò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]^[3]^[4]
IPA^(key): [kʲo̞ːho̞]

Noun edit

競(きょう)歩(ほ) • (kyōho) ^{←きやうほ (kyaufo)^?}

racewalking

References edit

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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