棒引き

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ぼう
Grade: 6
ひ > び
Grade: 2
jūbakoyomi

Etymology

(ぼう) () + () (hiki). The hiki changes to biki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ーびき [bòóbíkí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [bo̞ːbʲikʲi]

Noun

(ぼう)() • (bōbiki) ばうびき (baubiki)?

  1. drawing a straight line
  2. writing off, cancelling out (debt)
  3. Synonym of 長音符 (chōonpu, long-vowel mark)

Derived terms

  • 棒引(ぼうび)仮名遣(かなづか) (bōbiki kana-zukai)

Verb

(ぼう)()する • (bōbiki suru) ばうびき (baubiki)?suru (stem (ぼう)() (bōbiki shi), past (ぼう)()した (bōbiki shita))

  1. to draw a straight line
  2. to write off, to cancel out (debt)

Conjugation

References

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