誕生石

Japanese

Kanji in this term
誕	生	石
たん Grade: 6	しょう > じょう Grade: 1	せき Grade: 1
kan'on	goon	kan'on

Etymology

Compound of 誕生 (tanjō, “birth”) +‎ 石 (seki, “stone”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) たんじょーせき [tàńjóꜜòsèkì] (Nakadaka – [3])^[2]
IPA^(key): [tã̠ɲ̟d͡ʑo̞ːse̞kʲi]

Noun

誕(たん)生(じょう)石(せき) • (tanjōseki) ^{←たんじやうせき (tanzyauseki)^?}

a birthstone
- 2007 March 15, Gosho Aoyama, “ゴールデン・アイの巻(まき)【前(ぜん)編(ぺん)】 [Golden Eye [First Chapter]]”, in まじっく快(かい)斗(と) [Magic Kaito], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN:
  
  少(しょう)女(じょ)の誕(たん)生(じょう)石(せき)をサファイアだと聞(き)いてあなたは誕(たん)生(じょう)日(び)が近(ちか)いと答(こた)えた
  Shōjo no tanjōseki o safaia da to kiite anata wa tanjōbi ga chikai to kotaeta
  You replied that your birthdays were close when she said her birthstone was sapphire

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN