家政婦

Japanese
Kanji in this term
家 政 婦
か
Grade: 2		 せい
Grade: 5		 ふ
Grade: 5
kan’on kan’yōon

Etymology

Compound of 家政(かせい) (kasei, “housekeeping”) + 婦(ふ) (fu, “lady, woman”).

First cited to the late 1920s.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) かせ​ーふ [kàséꜜèfù] (Nakadaka – [2])[2][3]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠se̞ːɸɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

家(か)政(せい)婦(ふ) • (kaseifu) 

  1. [from late 1920s] housekeeper, maid

References
  1. “家政婦”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 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

Korean
Hanja in this term
家政婦

Noun

家政婦 • (gajeongbu) (hangeul 가정부)

  1. Hanja form? of 가정부 (“housekeeper, maid”).
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