病垂れ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
やまい
Grade: 3
た > だ
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling

Etymology

(やまい) (yamai, disease) + () (tare, hanging down). The tare changes to dare as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) まいだれ [yàmáídáré] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ma̠ida̠ɾe̞]

Noun

(やまい)() • (yamaidareやまひだれ (yamafidare)?

  1. the kanji component , used with characters relating to disease

References

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