竹取

Japanese

Kanji in this term
竹	取
たけ Grade: 1	と(り) Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ta̠ke̞to̞ɾʲi]

Noun

竹(たけ)取(とり) • (taketori)

bamboo cutter
- c. late 9th–mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari^[1]
  今(いま)は昔(むかし)、竹取(たけとり)の翁(おきな)といふものありけり。
  Ima wa mukashi, Taketori no Okina to iu mono arikeri.
  Once upon a time, there was a man named Taketori no Okina [old man who harvests bamboo].

References

^ “UVa Library eText Center: Japanese Text Initiative”, in University of Virginia‎^[1], 2001, retrieved 4 October 2021