文久

Chinese
 
language; culture; writing
language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
 (long) time; (long) duration of time
simp. and trad.
(文久)		 文 久

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 文久 (Bunkyū).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

文久

  1. Bunkyū (Japanese era spanning from February 1861 through February 1864)

Japanese
Kanji in this term
文 久
ぶん
Grade: 1		 きゅう
Grade: 5
on’yomi

Etymology

Chosen as the name of the 年号 (nengō, “era”) based on a quote from the 後漢書 (Gokanjo, “Book of the Later Han”), Volume 79, Part 2, Biographies of Confucian Scholars: Xie Gai (謝該／谢该)[1] (full Chinese source text here):

故能文武并用，成长久之计。
And it could be civil and military use, as a permanent solution.

The civil meaning here was likely chosen in reference to overtones of peace and culture.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [bɯ̟̃ᵝŋʲkʲɨᵝː]

Proper noun

文(ぶん)久(きゅう) • (Bunkyū) ←ぶんきう (bunkiu)?

  1. the Bunkyū era, 1861-1864
  2. Short for 文久泳宝 (Bunkyū eihō)., a copper coin with a square hole in the center, issued in 1863 and worth four 文 (mon)

See also

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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