棒引き

Japanese

Kanji in this term
棒 引
ぼう
Grade: 6
ひ > び
Grade: 2
jūbakoyomi

Etymology

棒(ぼう) (bō) + 引(ひ)き (hiki). The hiki changes to biki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ぼーびき [bòóbíkí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [bo̞ːbʲikʲi]

Noun

棒(ぼう)引(び)き • (bōbiki) ←ばうびき (baubiki)?

  1. drawing a straight line
  2. writing off, cancelling out (debt)
  3. Synonym of 長音符 (chōonpu, “long-vowel mark”)

Derived terms

  • 棒引(ぼうび)き仮名遣(かなづか)い (bōbiki kana-zukai)

Verb

棒(ぼう)引(び)きする • (bōbiki suru) ←ばうびき (baubiki)?suru (stem 棒(ぼう)引(び)きし (bōbiki shi), past 棒(ぼう)引(び)きした (bōbiki shita))

  1. to draw a straight line
  2. to write off, to cancel out (debt)

Conjugation

References

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