まな板
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 板 |
| いた Grade: 3 |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 俎 俎板 真魚板 |
Etymology
Compound of 真魚 (mana, “edible fish”) + 板 (ita, “board”).[1][2][3]
The 俎 kanji spelling comes from Chinese 俎 (zǔ).
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) まないた [mànáítá] (Heiban – [0])[4][5][3]
- (Tokyo) まないた [mànáíꜜtà] (Nakadaka – [3])[4][5][3]
- (Tokyo) まないた [mànáítáꜜ] (Odaka – [4])[5][3]
- IPA(key): [ma̠na̠ita̠]
Noun
まな板 • (manaita)
- a chopping board, a cutting board
- (slang) a girl with a flat chest (compare the English expression flat as a board)
Derived terms
- 俎板木 (manaitagi): a board shaped like a cutting board, attached to the top of a sluice gate and used to raise and lower the gate
Idioms
- 俎板に釘打つよう (manaita ni kugi utsu yō): “like pounding nails into a cutting board” → to care about things that don't matter, from the sense that a cutting board is a single piece of wood and does not need nailing
- まな板に載せる (manaita ni noseru): “to put on the cutting board” → to make something or someone the topic of conversation, often implying criticism
- まな板の鯉 (manaita no koi): “[like] a carp on a cutting board” → done for, one's goose is cooked
- まな板の魚 (manaita no uo): “[like] a fish on a cutting board” → done for, one's goose is cooked
- 俎板の上に餌を拾う鳥 (manaita no ue ni esa o hirō tori): “a bird picking up food from a cutting board” → a metaphor for doing something while being oblivious of the danger
- 俎板を机 (manaita o tsukue): “[using] a cutting board as a desk” → to use something for an inappropriate purpose
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN