オンス

㌉ U+3309, ㌉
SQUARE ONSU
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[U+3308] 		CJK Compatibility ㌊ →
[U+330A]

Japanese

Etymology
Alternative spellings
㌉
𬼄 (rare)

Borrowed from Dutch ons,[1][2] with some sources also listing English ounce.[1][3] Considering that English ounce would have been borrowed as アウンス (aunsu), the Dutch origin seems more likely.

First cited to 1886.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

オンス • (onsu) 

  1. (measurement) ounce [1886]
    • 1990 June 25 [1990 February 17], George Morikawa, “Round(ラウンド) ４(フォーア)　うれし涙(なみだ) [Round 4: Tears of Joy]”, in はじめの一(いっ)歩(ぽ) THE(ザ) FIGHTING(ファイティング)! (はじめの一(いっ)歩(ぽ) THE(ザ) FIGHTING(ファイティング)!) [The First Step: THE FIGHTING!], 3rd edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 123:
      彼(かれ)のグローブも 12(じゅうに)オンスだった　それでもブロックした腕(うで)がこの通(とお)りさ
      Kare no gurōbu mo jūni-onsu datta sore demo burokku shita ude ga kono tōrisa
      He was using 12-ounce gloves too, and yet my blocking arms still got beaten up like this.

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →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
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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