ふな

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
船 (larger boat, ship)
舟 (small boat)

From Old Japanese. Possibly the older form of fune (spelled variously in kanji as 船, 舟, 槽).

Mostly used in compounds.

Pronunciation

Noun

ふな • (funa) 

  1. 船, 舟: a boat:
    1. 船: a ship, vessel, larger ship
    2. 舟: a boat, ship, small ship

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of ふな – see the following entry.
【鮒】H
[noun] [from early 700s] crucian carp, any fish of the genus Carassius
Alternative spellings
鯽, フナ
(This term, ふな (funa), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as ふな, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ふな.)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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