車止め

Japanese

Kanji in this term
車	止
くるま Grade: 1	と > ど Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 車(くるま) (kuruma, “vehicle”) + 止(と)め (tome, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 止(と)める (tomeru, “stop”).). The tome changes to dome as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ɾɯ̟ma̠do̞me̞]

Noun

車(くるま)止(ど)め • (kurumadome) 

1. buffer stop

Further reading

• 車止め on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja