木漏れ日

木漏れ日

Japanese

FWOTD – 14 April 2017

Etymology

Kanji in this term
木	漏	日
こ Grade: 1	も Grade: S	ひ > び Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Compound of 木 (ko, “tree”, ancient combining form of modern 木 ki) +‎ 漏れ (more, “leaking, coming through”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 漏れる moreru, “to leak, to come through”) +‎ 日 (hi, “sun; sunlight”).[1][2] The hi changes to bi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) こもれ​び [kòmóréꜜbì] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞mo̞ɾe̞bʲi]

Alternative forms

木漏れ日 (komorebi): sunlight streaming through the trees.

• 木漏日, 木洩れ日, 木洩日, 木洩れ陽

Noun

木漏れ日 (hiragana こもれび, rōmaji komorebi)

1. sunlight filtering through trees
   • 1987, 大津あきら (lyrics), “輝きながら…”, performed by 德永英󠄄明:

     瞳 (ひとみ)を閉 (と)じても木 (こ)洩 (も)れ陽 (び)が　手 (て)を振 (ふ)る君 (きみ)を照 (て)らしてる

     hitomi o tojite mo komorebi ga te o furu kimi o terashiteru

     Even if I close my eyes, the sunlight shines on you waving your hand

Further reading

• 木漏れ日 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN