See also: 风车

Chinese

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wind; news; style
wind; news; style; custom; manner
 
vehicle on land; car; machine
vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe
 
trad. (風車)
simp. (风车)

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風車

  1. windmill; wind turbine
  2. winnower
  3. pinwheel
  4. (Hokkien, Singapore Teochew) automobile; motor car; sedan
  5. (Longyan Min, Datian Min) kite (toy)
  6. (Medan Hokkien) bicycle

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  • (kite):
  • (bicycle):

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Etymology 1

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風車 (fūsha, kazaguruma): a windmill.
Kanji in this term
ふう
Grade: 2
しゃ
Grade: 1
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 風車 (MC pjuwng tsyhae, “wind + wheel”).

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(ふう)(しゃ) (fūsha

  1. a windmill (structure)
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Etymology 2

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風車 (kazaguruma): a pinwheel.
 
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風車 (kazaguruma): the Clematis patens flower.
 
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Kanji in this term
かざ
Grade: 2
くるま > ぐるま
Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Compound of (kaza, wind, the older combining form) +‎ (kuruma, wheel). The kuruma changes to guruma as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

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(かざ)(ぐるま) (kazaguruma

  1. a windmill (structure)
  2. a pinwheel, a toy that spins in the wind
    ね、(かぜ)()いているよ、(かざ)(ぐるま)(まわ)そう。
    Ne, kaze ga fuite iru yo, kazaguruma o mawasō.
    Hey, the wind's blowing, let's spin pinwheels.
  3. a crest in the shape of a windmill or pinwheel
  4. (figurative) economic disadvantage, a difficult life
  5. (shogi) the “windmill opening” in shogi
  6. a kind of clematis flower, the Clematis patens
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As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カザグルマ.

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Hanja in this term

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風車 (pungcha or McCune-Reischauer: p'ungch'a or Yale: phungcha) (hangeul 풍차)

  1. hanja form? of 풍차 (windmill)