蛸焼き

Japanese

蛸焼き (takoyaki)
Kanji in this term
蛸 焼
たこ
Hyōgaiji
や
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
蛸燒き (kyūjitai)
蛸焼
たこ焼き

Etymology

Compound of 蛸 (tako, “octopus”) +‎ 焼き (yaki, “baking, roasting”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 焼く yaku, “to bake, to roast”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) たこやき [tàkóyákí] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ta̠ko̞ja̠kʲi]

Noun

蛸(たこ)焼(や)き • (takoyaki) 

  1. takoyaki

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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