初冠雪

Japanese

Kanji in this term
はつ
Grade: 4
かん
Grade: S
せつ
Grade: 2
kun’yomi on’yomi on’yomi

Etymology

(はつ) (hatsu-, the first…, new…) + 冠雪(かんせつ) (kansetsu, snow on top of a mountain)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) んせつ [hàtsúkáꜜǹsètsù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ha̠t͡sɨ̥ᵝkã̠ɰ̃se̞t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

(はつ)(かん)(せつ) • (hatsukansetsu) はつくわんせつ (fatukwansetu)?

  1. first snow on a mountain after summer

Verb

(はつ)(かん)(せつ)する • (hatsukansetsu suru) intransitive suru (stem (はつ)(かん)(せつ) (hatsukansetsu shi), past (はつ)(かん)(せつ)した (hatsukansetsu shita))

  1. (of a mountain) to snow for the first time after summer
    富士(ふじ)(さん)初冠雪(はつかんせつ)した(はっ)(ぴょう)した。
    Fujisan ga hatsukansetsu shita to happyō shita.
    They announced that it had snowed for the first time on Mt. Fuji.

References

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