豚鼻

Japanese

Kanji in this term
豚	鼻
ぶた Grade: S	はな > ばな Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
ブタ鼻

Etymology

Compound of 豚 (buta, “pig”) and 鼻 (hana, “nose”). The hana changes to bana as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟ta̠ba̠na̠]

Noun

豚(ぶた)鼻(ばな) • (butabana) 

1. A pig's snout.

References

• “豚鼻”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “豚鼻” in Weblio Dictionary.