なに

Japanese

Pronoun

なに • (nani) 

  1. 何: interrogative pronoun; what
    • c. late 9th-mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari:
      これを見て、舟より下りて、「山の名を何（なに）とか申」と問ふ。女答へていはく、「これは蓬萊の山なり」と答ふ。
      Seeing this, having gotten off the ship, he asked "What do you call this mountain?" The woman answered, "This is the Hōrai mountain".
    • c. late 9th-mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari:
      なに仰る。いま金すこしにこそあなれ。かならずをくるべき物にこそあなれ。
      What do you say? Now is the time to invest in a little money. Be sure to be what is to come.

Derived terms

Symbol

For pronunciation and definitions of なに – see the following entry.
【○まる】
[symbol] Placeholder for a kanji or kana.
[symbol] Used to indicate a space to be filled in.
[symbol] Used to censor or obscure individual characters.
(This term, なに (nani), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as なに, see Category:Japanese kanji read as なに.)

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