筒井筒

Japanese edit

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筒井筒

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Kanji in this term
筒	井	筒
つつ Grade: S	い Grade: 4	つつ > づつ Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology edit

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The figurative sense of "childhood friends" is derived from a story in the Ise Monogatari about two childhood friends who would play together by a well in their youth.

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) つついづつ [tsùtsúíꜜzùtsù] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝt͡sɨᵝizɨᵝt͡sɨᵝ]

Noun edit

筒(つつ)井(い)筒(づつ) • (tsutsuizutsu) ^{←つつゐづつ (tutwidutu)^?}

well curb of a circular well (筒井)
male and female who are childhood friends

Hypernyms edit

References edit

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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