水戸黄門
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 水 | 戸 | 黄 | 門 |
| み Grade: 1 |
と Grade: 2 |
こう Grade: 2 |
もん Grade: 2 |
| kun’yomi | kan’on | goon | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 水戶黃門 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 水戸 (Mito, a domain in present-day Ibaraki Prefecture) + 黄門 (kōmon, a rank in equivalence to a “middle councillor” in medieval Japan).
Proper noun[edit]
水戸黄門 • (Mito Kōmon) ←みとくわうもん (Mito Kwaumon)?
- (historical) a nickname of Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the second daimyo of Mito Domain
See also[edit]
- 中納言 (chūnagon, “middle councillor”)
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 水 read as み
- Japanese terms spelled with 戸 read as と
- Japanese terms spelled with 黄 read as こう
- Japanese terms spelled with 門 read as もん
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with four Han script characters
- Japanese terms with historical senses
- ja:Nicknames of individuals