肉屋

Japanese

Kanji in this term
肉	屋
にく Grade: 2	や Grade: 3
jūbakoyomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) にくや [nìkúꜜyà] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ikɯ̟ja̠]

Noun

肉(にく)屋(や) • (nikuya)

butcher (a person who prepares and sells meat)

Idiom

肉(にく)屋(や)を支持(しじ)する豚(ぶた) (nikuya o shijisuru buta, “like turkeys voting for Christmas”, literally “pigs who support butchers”)

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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