毛深い

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
ふか > ぶか
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From (ke, hair) + 深い (fukai, thick, dense).[1] The fukai changes to bukai as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Adjective

()(ぶか) • (kebukai) -i (adverbial ()(ぶか) (kebukaku))

  1. hairy, shaggy

Inflection

References

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