ふと

Japanese

Etymology 1
Alternative spellings
不図 (obsolete)
不斗 (obsolete)

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Pronunciation

Adverb

ふと • (futo) 

  1. unexpectedly, suddenly
    ふと思(おも)い出(だ)す
    futo omoidasu
    to remember / recall out of the blue
Derived terms

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of ふと – see the following entry.
【太】2
[noun] fatness
[noun] a fat person, a fatty
[noun] fat-necked shamisen
[noun] thick thread
[prefix] added to words describing gods or the emperor or other exalted subjects to denote greatness or excellence
[prefix] added to regular nouns to denote fatness or thickness
(This term, ふと, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as ふと, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ふと.)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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