敷居

Japanese

Kanji in this term
敷	居
しき Grade: S	い Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
閾

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しきい [shìkíí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕikʲii]

Noun

敷(しき)居(い) • (shikii) ^{←しきゐ (sikiwi)^?}

threshold, sill (bottom-most part of a doorway)

Derived terms

敷居(しきい)を跨(また)ぐ (shikii o matagu, “to enter”)

References

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

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