八百万

Japanese

Etymology
Kanji in this term
八 百 万
や
Grade: 1		 お
Grade: 1		 よろず
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
八百萬 (kyūjitai)

八百(やお) (yao, “eight hundred”) + 万(よろず) (yorozu, “ten thousand”)

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) やおよ​ろず [yàóyóꜜròzù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • (Tokyo) やおよろず [yàóyórózú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠o̞jo̞ɾo̞zɨᵝ]

Noun

八(や)百(お)万(よろず) • (yaoyorozu) ←やほよろづ (yafoyorodu)?

  1. (Shinto) eight million, used to depict the number of kami
  2. a myriad; a multitude; a countless large number or amount

Derived terms
  • 八(や)百(お)万(よろず)の神(かみ) (yaoyorozu no kami, “all the deities”)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.