笑草
Japanese
editKanji in this term | |
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笑 | 草 |
え(み) Grade: 4 |
くさ > ぐさ Grade: 1 |
kun'yomi |
Etymology
editLiterally, “smiling grass”, 笑み (emi, “smile, smiling”) + 草 (kusa, “grass plant”). The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit笑草 • (emigusa) ←ゑみぐさ (wemigusa)?
- Synonym of 甘野老 (amadokoro, “scented Solomon's seal, Polygonatum odoratum, specifically var. pluriflorum”)
- Synonym of 鳴子百合 (naruko yuri, “Polygonatum falcatum, a species of Solomon's seal”)
- Synonym of 牡丹蔓 (botan-zuru, “Clematis apiifolia”)
- Synonym of 竜胆 (rindō, “Gentiana scabra var. buergeri”)
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 笑 read as え
- Japanese terms spelled with 草 read as くさ
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms historically spelled with ゑ
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
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