文鎮
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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文 | 鎮 |
ぶん Grade: 1 | ちん Grade: S |
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文鎭 (kyūjitai) |
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) ぶんちん [bùńchíń] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
- IPA(key): [bɯ̟̃ᵝɲ̟t͡ɕĩɴ]
Noun
文鎮 • (bunchin)
- paperweight
- 1912, 夏目漱石, 彼岸過迄:
- 彼は机の上にあった重い文鎮を取って、突然これで人が殺せるだろうかと尋ねた。
- Kare wa tsukue no ue ni atta omoi bunchin o totte, totsuzen kore de hito ga koroseru darō ka to tazuneta.
- He picked up the heavy paperweight on top of the desk and asked out of the blue if one could kill a person with it.
- 彼は机の上にあった重い文鎮を取って、突然これで人が殺せるだろうかと尋ねた。
- 1912, 夏目漱石, 彼岸過迄:
- (computing slang, figurative) brick (an electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete)
Derived terms
- 文鎮化 (bunchinka)
References
- 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