八百万

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
八	百	万
や Grade: 1	お Grade: 1	よろず Grade: 2
kun’yomi

八 (や)百 (お) (yao, “eight hundred”) + 万 (よろず) (yorozu, “ten thousand”)

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) やおよろず [yàóyóꜜròzù] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
- (Tokyo) やおよろず [yàóyórózú] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [ja̠o̞jo̞ɾo̞zɨᵝ]

Noun

八百万 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 八百萬, hiragana やおよろず, rōmaji yaoyorozu, historical hiragana やほよろづ)

(Shinto) eight million, used to depict the number of kami
a myriad; a multitude; a countless large number or amount

Derived terms

八 (や)百 (お)万 (よろず)の神 (かみ) (yaoyorozu no kami, “all the deities”)

References

1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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