羽根突き

Japanese

羽根突き (hanetsuki): the two standing girls are playing battledore and shuttlecock.
Kanji in this term
羽 根 突
は
Grade: 2		 ね
Grade: 3		 つ(き)
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

  • 羽根突, 羽子突き, 羽子突

Etymology

Compound of 羽根 (hane, “feather; shuttlecock”) +‎ 突き (tsuki, “striking”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 突く tsuku, “to strike at”), from the way that players strike at the feather-covered shuttlecock to bat it back and forth.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

羽根突き (hiragana はねつき, rōmaji hanetsuki)

  1. Japanese battledore, battledore and shuttlecock
    A game similar to modern badminton, but played without a net, by using a wooden 羽子板 (hagoita, “batteldore, paddle”) to hit the 羽根 (hane, “shuttlecock”) back and forth in the air. Traditionally played in the winter, around the time of New Years.

Synonyms

  • 羽 (は)根 (ね)っこ (hanekko) (less common)
  • 羽 (は)子 (ご)突 (つ)き (hagotsuki) (less common)

Verb

羽根突きする (intransitive, hiragana はねつきする, rōmaji hanetsuki suru)

  1. to play battledore, to play battledore and shuttlecock

Conjugation

References

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