竹蜻蛉たけとんぼ

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竹蜻蛉たけとんぼ (take tonbo): a bamboo helicopter toy.
Kanji in this term
竹たけ 蜻 蛉
たけ
Grade: 1 		Hyōgai Hyōgai
kun'yomi irregular

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Compound of 竹たけ (take, “bamboo”) +‎ 蜻蛉とんぼ (tonbo, “dragonfly”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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竹蜻蛉たけとんぼ(たけとんぼ) • (take tonbo) 

  1. a bamboo-copter, a helicopter toy, consisting of a short bamboo or wooden dowel with a propeller affixed to one end, that flies when the dowel is spun and released

Usage notes

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Sometimes spelled 竹たけとんぼ, due to the complexity and relative rarity of the kanji spelling of 蜻蛉とんぼ for tonbo.

References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語こくご大だい辞典じてん（新装しんそう版ばん） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林だいじりん [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語にほんご発音はつおんアクセント辞典じてん [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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