凹凸
Chinese
FWOTD – 14 August 2014
a depression; indentation; concave a depression; indentation; concave; hollow |
(adj.) convex; stick out | ||
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simp. and trad. (凹凸) |
凹 | 凸 | |
anagram | 凸凹 |
Pronunciation
Adjective
凹凸
- uneven; bumpy; rugged
- 不是我無食力身軀閃這一滑,多管是少人行山路凹凸。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: 14th century, Poetry by Qin Jianfu
- Bùshì wǒ wú shílì shēnqū shǎn zhè yī huá, duōguǎn shì shǎo rén xíng shānlù āotū. [Pinyin]
- The reason I slipped is not because my starving body was feeble; it was due to the roughness of the mountain road since not many people had walked on this.
不是我无食力身躯闪这一滑,多管是少人行山路凹凸。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (optics, mathematics) concavo-convex
Descendants
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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凹 | 凸 |
おう Grade: S |
とつ Grade: S |
kan’on |
Etymology
/aputotu/ → /aɸutotu/ → */awutot͡su/ → /autot͡su/ → /ɔːtot͡su/ → /oːtot͡su/
Ultimately from Middle Chinese 凹凸 (MC 'eap dwot). Appears in texts from at least the 1600s.[1]
Noun
References
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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