肉屋

Japanese

Kanji in this term
肉 屋
にく
Grade: 2 		や
Grade: 3
jūbakoyomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) にくや [nìkúꜜyà] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɲ̟ikɯ̟ja̠]

Noun

肉(にく)屋(や) • (nikuya) 

  1. butcher (a person who prepares and sells meat)

Idiom

  1. 肉(にく)屋(や)を支持(しじ)する豚(ぶた) (nikuya o shijisuru buta, “like turkeys voting for Christmas”, literally “pigs who support butchers”)

References

  1. ^ 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
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