八岐大蛇

Chinese


trad. (八岐大蛇)		八岐	大蛇
simp. ^#(八岐大蛇)		八岐	大蛇

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 八(や)岐(またの)大(お)蛇(ろち) (Yamata no Orochi).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bāqí Dàshé

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄚㄑㄧˊ ㄉㄚˋ ㄕㄜˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bāqí Dàshé
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄚㄑㄧˊ ㄉㄚˋ ㄕㄜˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bací Dàshé
  - Wade–Giles: pa¹-chʻi² Ta⁴-shê²
  - Yale: bā-chí Dà-shé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bachyi Dahsher
  - Palladius: баци Дашэ (baci Dašɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi³⁵ tä⁵¹ ʂɤ³⁵/

Proper noun

八岐大蛇

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) Yamata no Orochi, a legendary dragon that was slain by Susanoo

Japanese

Kanji in this term
八	岐	大	蛇
や Grade: 1	また Grade: 4	おろち
や Grade: 1	また Grade: 4	Grade: 1	Grade: S
kun'yomi	irregular	jukujikun

Alternative spellings
八俣遠呂智八俣遠呂知

Etymology

From 八(や) (ya, “eight”) + 股(また) (mata, “crotch, branch, fork”) + 大蛇(おろち) (orochi, “python, large snake”). 岐 and 大蛇(おろち) (orochi) are jukujikun (熟字訓); see the latter for more.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) やまたのおろち [yàmátá nó óꜜròchì] (Nakadaka – [5])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ja̠ma̠ta̠ no̞ o̞ɾo̞t͡ɕi]

Proper noun

八岐大蛇(やまたのおろち) or 八岐大蛇(ヤマタノオロチ) • (Yamata no Orochi) ^{←やまたのをろち (Yamatanoworoti) or ヤマタノヲロチ (Yamatanoworoti)^?}

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) Yamata no Orochi, a legendary dragon that was slain by Susanoo

References

^ 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