今上天皇

Japanese

Kanji in this term
今 上 天 皇
きん
Grade: 2 		しょう > じょう
Grade: 1 		てん
Grade: 1 		おう > のう
Grade: 6
kan'on goon

Etymology

今上(きんじょう) (kinjō) + 天皇(てんのう) (tennō). The former part is borrowed from Middle Chinese 今上 (MC kim dzyangX).

The shō changes to jō as an instance of rendaku (連濁); also read kinshō without rendaku in older texts.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) きんじょーてんのー [kìńjóó téńnóꜜò] (Nakadaka – [7])[1]
  • IPA(key): [kʲĩɲ̟d͡ʑo̞ː tẽ̞nːo̞ː]

Noun

今(きん)上(じょう)天(てん)皇(のう) • (Kinjō Tennō) ←きんじやうてんわう (kinzyauten'wau)?

  1. (honorific) the Reigning Emperor: standard term of address to the present Emperor of Japan
    Synonyms: 今皇 (ima suberagi), 今上 (kinjō, konjō)

See also

References

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