二束三文

Japanese

Kanji in this term
二	束	三	文
に Grade: 1	そく Grade: 4	さん Grade: 1	もん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Alternative forms

二足三文

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) にそくさんもん [nìsókúsáꜜǹmòǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɲ̟iso̞kɯ̟̊sã̠mːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

二(に)束(そく)三(さん)文(もん) • (nisokusanmon)

dirt cheap
- 1906, Natsume Sōseki, Botchan‎^[1]:
  
  道(どう)具(ぐ)屋(や)を呼(よ)んで来(き)て、先(せん)祖(ぞ)代(だい)々(だい)の瓦(が)落(らく)多(た)を二(に)束(そく)三(さん)文(もん)に売(う)った。
  Dōguya o yonde kite, senzodaidai no garakuta o nisokusanmon ni utta.
  He sent for a second-hand dealer and sold for a song all the bric-a-brac which had been handed down from ages ago in our family.

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN