おさながお

Japanese

Alternative spellings
幼顔
幼な顔
おさな顔

Etymology

From 幼(おさな) (osana-) + 顔(かお) (kao). The kao changes to gao as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) おさながお [òsánáꜜgàò] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • (Tokyo) おさながお [òsánágáó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [o̞sa̠na̠ɡa̠o̞]

Noun

おさながお • (osanagao) ←をさながほ (wosanagafo)?

  1. (poetic) young face

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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