米櫃

Japanese

Kanji in this term
米 櫃
こめ
Grade: 2 		ひつ > びつ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
米びつ

Etymology

From 米(こめ) (kome) + 櫃(ひつ) (hitsu). The hitsu changes to bitsu as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) こめびつ [kòmébítsú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ko̞me̞bʲit͡sɨ]

Noun

米(こめ)櫃(びつ) • (komebitsu) 

  1. rice bin; a storage container for rice

References

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