へんぼう

Japanese

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) へんぼー [hèńbóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [hẽ̞mbo̞ː]

Noun

へんぼう • (henbō) 

  1. 辺防: border defense
  2. 変貌: transfiguration of one's appearance
  3. 偏旁, 偏傍: for certain kanji characters, the 偏 (hen, “left-side radical”) and the 旁 (tsukuri, “the right-side main portion of the character”)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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