御中
Japanese
    
    Etymology 1
    
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 御 | 中 | 
| お Grade: S  | 
なか Grade: 1  | 
| kun’yomi | |
Compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 中 (naka, “inside; middle”). Originally coined as a 女房詞 (nyōbō kotoba, “woman's word”).[1][2]
Noun
    
御中 • (onaka)
- Alternative spelling of お腹: belly, tummy, stomach, abdomen
 - a meal, especially of rice (from the way that the main serving dish would be placed in the 中 (naka, “middle”) of the table)
 - cotton batting (from the way that batting was used in the 中 (naka, “inside”) of cushions and quilts)
 - (historical) the title of a maid working in the inner part of a samurai family's house during the Muromachi period
 
Etymology 2
    
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 御 | 中 | 
| おん Grade: S  | 
ちゅう Grade: 1  | 
| yutōyomi | |
Compound of 御 (on-, honorific prefix) + 中 (chū, “inside; middle”).[1][2]
Pronoun
    
御中 • (onchū)
Etymology 3
    
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 御 | 中 | 
| お Grade: S  | 
ちゅう Grade: 1  | 
| yutōyomi | |
Compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 中 (chū, “inside; middle”).[1]
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [o̞t͡ɕɨᵝː]
 
Noun
    
御中 • (ochū)
- (historical) a kind of hairstyle worn by women of the nobility in the late Edo period as a simplification of the 大垂髪 (ōsuberakashi) style, with no 簪 (kanzashi, “ornamental hairpin”) or other adornment, and with the long hair of an additional hairpiece allowed to hang loose in back
 
References
    
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
 - 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
 - 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
 
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