生物時計

Japanese

Kanji in this term
せい
Grade: 1
ぶつ
Grade: 3
と > ど
Grade: 2
けい
Grade: 2
on’yomi irregular

Etymology

From 生物 (biological) + 時計 (clock). The tokei changes to dokei as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ーぶつどけー [sèébútsúdóꜜkèè] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [se̞ːbɯ̟ᵝt͡sɨᵝdo̞ke̞ː]

Noun

(せい)(ぶつ)()(けい) • (seibutsudokei) 

  1. biological clock
    Synonym: 体内時計

References

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