Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 2
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
K點 (kyūjitai)
 
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K点 (kei-ten): the red critical point marks the steepest point on the ski jumping hill.

Etymology edit

Compound of K (kei, the letter "K") +‎ (ten, point), calque of German K-Punkt, ultimately from either German kritischer Punkt[1] or Konstruktionspunkt.[2][3]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

K(ケイ)(てん) (kei-ten

  1. (skiing) a K-point, a construction point, a critical point
    • 2011 April 9, Hideaki Sorachi, “(だい)(さん)(びゃく)(さん)(じゅう)(ろく)(くん) (ぼう)(ねん)(かい)でも(わす)れちゃいけないものがある [Lesson 336: There Are Things You Can’t Forget Even at a Forgetting-Last-Year Party]”, in [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) ([銀](ぎん)[魂](たま)) [Silver Soul], volume 39 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
      ちょっ… ちょっと()ってくれ (おれ)コレもしかして… ジャンプで (ケー)(てん)()えたァァァァ‼
      Cho'… Chotto matte kure Ore kore moshi ka shite… Janpu de kē-ten koetaaaaa‼
      Wai... Wait a damn sec. Could I have... jumped past the freaking K-point this time!?

References edit

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ^ K点”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia)[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014