やじ

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
野次
弥次
ヤジ

Pronunciation

Noun

やじ or ヤジ • (yajiやじ (yazi)?

  1. jeering; heckling
Derived terms

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of やじ – see the following entry.
親父おやじ
[noun] (informal) an old man (elderly man)
[noun] (informal) an old man (father)
Alternative spellings
親仁, 親爺, オヤジ, ヤジ
(This term, やじ (yaji), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as やじ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as やじ.)

References

  1. ^ 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