砂時計

Japanese

Kanji in this term
砂	時	計
すな Grade: 6	とき > ど Grade: 2	けい Grade: 2
Irregular

Etymology

From 砂 (suna, “sand”) +‎ 時計 (tokei, “timepiece”). The tokei reading for 時計 changes to dokei as an instance of rendaku (連濁). 時計 is jukujikun (熟字訓).

Pronunciation

(Irregular reading)
- (Tokyo) すなどけー [sùnádóꜜkèè] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]^[2]^[3]
- IPA^(key): [sɨᵝna̠do̞ke̞ː]

Noun

砂時計 (hiragana すなどけい, rōmaji sunadokei)

an hourglass

Synonyms

砂 (さ)漏 (ろう) (sarō)

References

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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