読み下す

Japanese

Kanji in this term
読 下
よ
Grade: 2
くだ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
讀み下す (kyūjitai)
Examples

(to read Classical Chinese text as Japanese): reading 楚人有鬻盾與矛者 as 楚(そ)人(ひと)に盾(たて)と矛(ほこ)とを鬻(ひさ)ぐ者(もの)有(あ)り (so hito ni tate to hoko to o hisagu mono ari)

Alternative forms

  • 読下す
  • (read Classical Chinese as Japanese): 訓み下す, 訓下す

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) よみくだ​す [yòmíkúdáꜜsù] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • (Tokyo) よみくだす [yòmíkúdású] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [jo̞mʲikɯ̟ᵝda̠sɨᵝ]

Verb

読(よ)み下(くだ)す • (yomikudasu) transitive godan (stem 読(よ)み下(くだ)し (yomikudashi), past 読(よ)み下(くだ)した (yomikudashita))

  1. to read from start to finish
  2. to read a Classical Chinese text as Japanese (using the kanbun kundoku technique)

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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