誕生石

Japanese
Kanji in this term
誕 生 石
たん
Grade: 6		 しょう > じょう
Grade: 1		 せき
Grade: 1
kan’on goon kan’on

Etymology

Compound of 誕生 (tanjō, “birth”) +‎ 石 (seki, “stone”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) たんじょ​ーせき [tàńjóꜜòsèkì] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • IPA(key): [tã̠ɲ̟d͡ʑo̞ːse̞kʲi]

Noun

誕(たん)生(じょう)石(せき) • (tanjōseki) ←たんじやうせき (tanzyauseki)?

  1. a birthstone
    • 2007 March 15, Gosho Aoyama, “ゴールデン・アイの巻(まき)【前(ぜん)編(ぺん)】 [Golden Eye [First Chapter]]”, in まじっく快(かい)斗(と) (まじっく快(かい)斗(と)) [Magic Kaito], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN:
      少(しょう)女(じょ)の誕(たん)生(じょう)石(せき)をサファイアだと聞(き)いてあなたは誕(たん)生(じょう)日(び)が近(ちか)いと答(こた)えた
      Shōjo no tanjōseki o safaia da to kiite anata wa tanjōbi ga chikai to kotaeta
      You replied that your birthdays were close when she said her birthstone was sapphire

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
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