金城湯池
Chinese
impregnable city; Jincheng | city moat; impregnable fortress | ||
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trad. (金城湯池) | 金城 | 湯池 | |
simp. (金城汤池) | 金城 | 汤池 | |
Literally: “[city with] metal walls and boiling moat”. |
Pronunciation
Descendants
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |||
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金 | 城 | 湯 | 池 |
きん Grade: 1 |
じょう Grade: 4 |
とう Grade: 3 |
ち Grade: 2 |
kan’on | goon | on’yomi | kan’on |
Etymology
From Literary Chinese 金城湯池 (jīnchéngtāngchí) in the 漢書 (Kanjo, “Book of Han”).
Equivalent to 金城 (kinjō, “metal castle”) + 湯池 (tōchi, literally “hot-water moat”).
Noun
金城湯池 • (kinjōtōchi) ←きんじやうたうち (kinzyautauti)?
References
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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