風見鶏
Japanese
Kanji in this term | ||
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風 | 見 | 鶏 |
かざ Grade: 2 |
み Grade: 1 |
とり > どり Grade: S |
kun’yomi |
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風見鷄 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
風見 (kazami, “anemoscope”) + 鶏 (tori, “chicken”)
Noun
風見鶏 • (kazamidori)
- a weathercock (weather vane)
- 2002 July 27, Mashiba, Shin, “第壱夜 下リ階段 [Night 1: Downward Stairway]”, in 夢喰見聞 (夢喰見聞) [The Dream-Eating Inspector], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Square Enix, page 24:
- そうですか…夢と違っていたのは僕が人間ではなく現実では風見鶏なったという事だけですね 本当にお嬢様は手(て)の届(とど)かない存在でした
- Sō desu ka… Yume to chigatteita no wa boku ga ningen de wa naku genjitsu de wa kazamidori natta to iu koto dake desu ne Hontō ni ojō-sama wa TE NO TODOKA NAI sonzai deshita
- Is this really… I was a human in my dream, but it turns out I’m really just a weather vane. In actuality, Miss was always somewhere I COULD NEVER REACH.
References
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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