隣組
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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隣 | 組 |
となり Grade: S | くみ > ぐみ Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi |
Etymology
Compound of 隣 (tonari, “neighbor, neighbour”) + 組 (kumi, “group”).
The kumi changes to gumi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) となりぐみ [tònárígúmí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [to̞na̠ɾʲiɡɯ̟ᵝmʲi]
Noun
隣組 • (tonarigumi)
- a form of a neighborhood association established by the pre-war Japanese government in 1940
Proper noun
隣組 • (Tonarigumi)
- a Shōwa period song, describing the day-to-day activities of such an association:
- とんとんとんからりと隣組 格子を開ければ顔なじみ 回して頂戴回覧板 知らせられたり知らせたり
- tonton tonkarari to tonarigumi kōshi o akereba kao najimi mawashite chōdai kairanban shiraseraretari shirasetari
- (please add an English translation of this example)
- とんとんとんからりと隣組 格子を開ければ顔なじみ 回して頂戴回覧板 知らせられたり知らせたり
References
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN