筒井筒

Japanese

Kanji in this term
筒 井 筒
つつ
Grade: S 		い
Grade: 4 		つつ > づつ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Etymology

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The figurative sense of "childhood friends" is derived from a story in the Ise Monogatari about two childhood friends who would play together by a well in their youth.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) つついづつ [tsùtsúíꜜzùtsù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [t͡sɨt͡sɨizɨt͡sɨ]

Noun

筒(つつ)井(い)筒(づつ) • (tsutsuizutsu) ←つつゐづつ (tutwidutu)?

  1. well curb of a circular well (筒井)
  2. male and female who are childhood friends

Hypernyms

References

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