鼾掻

鼾掻

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鼾	掻
くつち Hyōgaiji	か(き) Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 鼾 (kutsuchi, “snoring; epilepsy”) +‎ 掻き (kaki, “making something manifest”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 掻く (kaku, “to scratch; to make manifest”).[1]

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝt͡sɨᵝt͡ɕika̠kʲi]

Alternative forms

• 鼾掻き

Noun

鼾掻 (hiragana くつちかき, rōmaji kutsuchikaki)

1. (rare, obsolete) snoring
2. (rare, obsolete) an epileptic, a person who has epilepsy

Synonyms

• (snoring):: 鼾 (いびき) (ibiki)
• (epileptic):: 癲 (てん)癇 (かん)持 (も)ち (tenkanmochi), 癲癇持 (てんかんもち) (tenkanmochi)

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan