八咫烏

Japanese
Kanji in this term
八 咫 烏
や
Grade: 1		 た
Hyōgaiji		 からす
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
Kanji in this term
八 咫 烏
や
Grade: 1		 た
Hyōgaiji		 からす > がらす
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) やたが​らす [yàtágáꜜràsù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ta̠ɡa̠ɾa̠sɨᵝ]

Proper noun

八(や)咫(た)烏(がらす) • (Yatagarasu)  (alternative reading hiragana やたのからす, rōmaji Yata no Karasu)

  1. (Shinto) sacred three legged raven in Japanese mythology

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