火箸

Chinese

fire; angry; fierce
fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving
 
chopsticks
trad. (火箸)
simp. #(火箸)

Pronunciation


Noun

火箸

  1. (dialectal) fire tongs

Synonyms

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
はし > ばし
Grade: S
kun'yomi

From () (hi, fire) + (はし) (hashi, chopsticks). The hashi changes to bashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

()(ばし) • (hibashi

  1. fire tongs

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1

Grade: S
tōon irregular
Alternative spellings
火匙
火筯 (deprecated)

The pronunciation is derived from the alternative spelling 火匙(こ​じ) (ko​ji), although the word is now more commonly written with the character 箸.

Pronunciation

Noun

()() • (koji

  1. fire tongs
  2. (in Kōdō, the traditional Japanese art of incense burning) metal chopsticks used to manipulate the charcoal used

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN