豚箱

Japanese

Kanji in this term
豚	箱
ぶた Grade: S	はこ > ばこ Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 豚 (buta, “pig”) +‎ 箱 (hako, “box”). The hako changes to bako as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) ぶたばこ [bùtábákó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [bɯ̟ᵝta̠ba̠ko̞]

Noun

豚箱 (hiragana ぶたばこ, rōmaji butabako)

police cell

References

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

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