雨降り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
あめ
Grade: 1
ふ(り)
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Etymology

(あめ) (ame, rain) + () (furi, falling, noun form of () (furu)).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ふり [àméꜜfùrì] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [a̠me̞ɸɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]

Noun

雨降(あめふ) • (amefuri) 

  1. rainfall; time when it's raining
    今日(きょう)(あめ)()なので(かさ)()します
    Kyō wa amefuri na no de kasa o sashimasu.
    It's raining today so I'll put up an umbrella.
  2. (figurative) appearing of many lines over the old movie which caused by the scratches on the film

Synonyms

References

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