旅立ち

Japanese

Kanji in this term
旅 立
たび
Grade: 3		 た > だ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel, voyage”) +‎ 立ち (tachi, “standing, standing up”, as in “to set off, to set out”; the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 立つ tatsu, “to stand up; to set off, to set out, to depart”).[1][2][3] The tachi changes to dachi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

  • 旅立 (less common)

Noun

旅立ち (hiragana たびだち, rōmaji tabidachi)

  1. departure on a trip/journey, setting off, embarking

Verb

旅立ちする (hiragana たびだち, rōmaji tabidachi)

  1. to depart on a trip/journey, to set off, to embark

Conjugation

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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