弥生

See also: 彌生

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 弥生 – see 彌生 (“Yayoi, Tokyo, Japan; the former town of Yayoi, Ōita, Japan”).
(This term is the simplified form of 彌生).
Notes:

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
弥 生
や
Grade: S		 お(い) > よ(い)
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
彌生 (kyūjitai)

/ijaopi/ → /ijaofi/ → */jaofi/ → /jajofi/ → /jajowi/ → /jajoi/

Shift from iyaoi below.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

弥(や)生(よい) • (yayoi) ←やよひ (yayofi)?

  1. (archaic) the third month of the lunar calendar
  2. (poetic) the month of spring; March

Coordinate terms: 睦月, 如月, 弥生, 卯月, 皐月, 水無月, 文月, 葉月, 長月, 神無月, 霜月, 師走

Derived terms
  • 弥(や)生(よい)狂(きょう)言(げん) (yayoi kyōgen)
  • 弥(や)生(よい)尽(じん) (yayoijin)
  • 弥(や)生(よい)山(やま) (yayoi yama)

Proper noun

弥(や)生(よい) • (Yayoi) ←やよひ (yayofi)?

  1. a Kamikaze-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy
    Hypernym: 神風 (Kamikaze)
  2. a Mutsuki-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, see Japanese destroyer Yayoi (1925) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
    Hypernym: 睦月 (Mutsuki)
  3. a placename, especially the name of a district in Bunkyō Ward, Tokyo
  4. a female given name
    • 1997 October 17, Seimaru Amagi with Kanari, Yozaburo and Sato, Fumiya, “ファイル18　魔(ま)神(じん)遺(い)跡(せき)殺(さつ)人(じん)事(じ)件(けん)⑪ [File 18: The Demonic Ruins Murder Case ⑪]”, in 金(きん)田(だ)一(いち)少(しょう)年(ねん)の事(じ)件(けん)簿(ぼ) (金(きん)田(だ)一(いち)少(しょう)年(ねん)の事(じ)件(けん)簿(ぼ)) [Young Kindaichi Case Files], volume 26 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 105:
      三(さん)月(がつ)に生(う)まれた私(わたし)が「弥(や)生(よい)」だから　五(ご)月(がつ)に生(う)まれたあなたは「さつき」にしようって———
      Sangatsu ni umareta watashi ga “Yayoi” da kara Gogatsu ni umareta anata wa “Satsuki” ni shiyōtte———
      I’m “Yayoi” because I was born in March. We named you “Satsuki” because you were born in May———
  5. a surname
Derived terms
  • 弥(や)生(よい)時(じ)代(だい) (Yayoi jidai)
  • 弥(や)生(よい)土(ど)器(き) (Yayoi doki), 弥(や)生(よい)式(しき)土(ど)器(き) (Yayoi-shiki doki)
  • 弥(や)生(よい)文(ぶん)化(か) (Yayoi bunka)

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
弥 生
いや
Grade: S		 お(い)
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
彌生 (kyūjitai)

Possibly from Old Japanese.

Derived from adverb 弥 (iya, “very”) +‎ 生い (oi, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of classical verb 生う (ou), “to grow”).

Noun

弥(いや)生(おい) • (iyaoi) ←いやおひ (yaofi)?

  1. (of vegetation) thick growth
  2. (obsolete) the third month of the lunar calendar
Derived terms
  • 弥(いや)生(おい)の月(つき) (iyaoi no tsuki)

Coordinate terms

See also
See also

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, 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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