名残り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
名 残
な
Grade: 1 		のこ > ご
Grade: 4
kun'yomi irregular
Alternative spellings
名殘り (kyūjitai)
名残

Etymology

From 余波(なごり) (nagori, “wake; after-effects”),[1] itself said to be from an abbreviation of 波 (nami, “wave”) +‎ 残り (nokori, “remainder”), i.e. “the remainder of a wave”.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

名(な)残(ご)り • (nagori) 

  1. vestiges, remains, relics
  2. the sadness of saying goodbye
  3. parting

References

  1. ^ “名残”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  2. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ 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
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