夜船
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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夜 | 船 |
よ Grade: 2 | ふね Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi |
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夜舟 |
Etymology
From Old Japanese 夜船 (yopune).[1] Found in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.[2]
Analyzable as a compound of 夜 (yo, “night”) + 船 (fune, “boat, ship”).[1][3][4][5][6]
Also encountered as yobune.[1][3][4][5][6]The fune changes to bune as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) よふね [yóꜜfùnè] (Atamadaka – [1])[4][5][6]
- IPA(key): [jo̞ɸɯ̟ᵝne̞]
Noun
夜船 or 夜船 • (yofune or yobune)
- a boat or ship travelling at night
Derived terms
- 白河夜船 (shirakawa yofune): being fast asleep, dead to the world when sleeping; pretending to know everything, a know-it-all manner
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 15, poem 3624), text here
- 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN