かんご

See also: かんこ and がんこ

Japanese

Pronunciation 1
    • (Tokyo) かんご [kàńgó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
    • IPA(key): [kã̠ŋɡo̞]
    For pronunciation and definitions of かんご – see the following entries.
    【漢語】
    [noun] kango, a Japanese word of Chinese origin, or a Japanese word coined along Chinese lines (a Sino-Japanese word)
    [noun] (less commonly) the Chinese language
    [noun] the ancient Chinese language, the language of the Han (漢／汉 (hàn)) ethnicity
    [noun] retained their original meanings in Classical Chinese, such as 天 (ten, “heaven”), 天下 (tenka, “the world”) or 菩薩 (bosatsu, “bodhisattva”)
    [noun] were repurposed to translate Western concepts, such as 社会 (shakai, “society”), 文化 (bunka, “culture”), 過渡 (kato, “transition”) or 博士 (hakushi, “doctor”)
    [noun] were newly coined from Classical Chinese syllables, morphemes or graphemes, such as 出超 (shutchō, “trade surplus”) or 腺 (sen, “gland”), where words coined from more than one syllable are called wasei kango (和製漢語) and coined kanji are called kokuji (国字)
    【韓語】
    [noun] Korean language
    【喚語】
    [noun] to think of something that wants to be said
    (This term, かんご, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

    (The following entry is uncreated: 閑語.)

    Pronunciation 2
      For pronunciation and definitions of かんご – see the following entries.
      【看護】
      [noun] nursing
      [verb] to nurse, care for
      【観護】
      [noun] watching over
      [verb] to watch over
      【監護】
      [noun] custody and care
      [verb] to take custody and care
      【歓語】
      [noun] having fun while talking together
      [verb] to have fun while talking together
      (This term, かんご, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

      (The following entries are uncreated: 歓娯, 刊誤, 款晤, 款語, 閑語, 感悟.)

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