巻物

Japanese
Kanji in this term
巻 物
ま(き)
Grade: 6		 もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
卷物 (kyūjitai)
巻き物
巻物 (makimono): a horizontal scroll.

Etymology

Compound of 巻き (maki, “rolling”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 巻く maku, “to roll, to wind”) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) まきもの [màkímónó] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA(key): [ma̠kʲimo̞no̞]

Noun

巻(まき)物(もの) • (makimono) 

  1. a scroll, a long wound-up document, painting, or drawing that unrolls horizontally
    Synonym: スクロール (sukurōru)
  2. a roll of cloth
  3. a food that has been wound into a shape resembling a scroll, such as a sushi roll or a roll of scrambled eggs

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 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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