肉月

Japanese

Kanji in this term
にく
Grade: 2
つき > づき
Grade: 1
jūbakoyomi

Etymology

Examples

From (にく) (niku, meat; flesh) + (つき) (tsuki, moon), referring to its etymological origin as the character (meat; flesh) and its present appearance as . Compare Jin 月肉旁. The tsuki changes to zuki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) づき [nìkúꜜzùkì] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɲ̟ikɯ̟zɨkʲi]

Noun

(にく)(づき) • (nikuzuki

  1. The kanji component , appearing on the left, etymologically (meat; flesh) and used in words related to the body.
    Synonym: 肉部 (nikubu)

References

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