女らしい

Japanese

Kanji in this term
女
おんな
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

女(おんな) (onna, “woman”) + らしい (-rashii, to be like or equivalent to; to be perceived as)。

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) おんならし​い [òńnáráshíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [5])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [õ̞nːa̠ɾa̠ɕiː]

Adjective

女(おんな)らしい • (onnarashii) ←をんならしい (wonnarasii)?-i (adverbial 女(おんな)らしく (onnarashiku))

  1. womanly, feminine

Inflection

Antonyms

References

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