火事

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Japanese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1

Grade: 3
goon

Old Japanese 火事 (pi2 no2 ko2to2) (now spelled as 火の事 (hi no koto)), later read with 音読み (on'yomi).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

()() (kajiくわじ (kwazi)?

  1. a fire (damaging occurrence of fire)

See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 3

Noun[edit]

火事(くゎし) (kwashi

  1. (dialectal, Kagoshima) a fire (damaging occurrence of fire)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Frellesvig, Bjarke (2010) A History of the Japanese Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN