三行半

Japanese
Kanji in this term
三 行 半
み
Grade: 1		 くだり
Grade: 2		 はん
Grade: 2
kun’yomi on’yomi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Literally "three and a half lines". During the Edo period, a husband could divorce his wife by writing a formalized note consisting of three fixed lines of text.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) みくだりは​ん [mìkúdáríháꜜǹ] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mʲikɯ̟ᵝda̠ɾʲihã̠ɴ]

Noun

三(み)行(くだり)半(はん) • (mikudarihan) 

  1. a letter of divorce given from a husband to a wife
  2. divorce

See also

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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