家政婦

Japanese

Kanji in this term
家	政	婦
か Grade: 2	せい Grade: 5	ふ Grade: 5
kan'on		kan'yōon

Etymology

Compound of 家政(かせい) (kasei, “housekeeping”) + 婦(ふ) (fu, “lady, woman”).

First cited to the late 1920s.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かせーふ [kàséꜜèfù] (Nakadaka – [2])^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ka̠se̞ːɸɯ̟]

Noun

家(か)政(せい)婦(ふ) • (kaseifu)

[from late 1920s] housekeeper, maid

References

^ “家政婦”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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

Korean

Hanja in this term
家	政	婦

Noun

家政婦 • (gajeongbu) (hangeul 가정부)

hanja form^? of 가정부 (“housekeeper, maid”)