おきな

Japanese

Alternative spelling
翁

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) おきな [óꜜkìnà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
(Tokyo) おきな [òkíná] (Heiban – [0])[1]
IPA^(key): [o̞kʲina̠]

Noun

おきな • (okina)

old man
- c. late 9th–mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari[2]
  今(いま)は昔(むかし)、竹(たけ)取(とり)の翁(おきな)といふものありけり。
  Ima wa mukashi, Taketori no Okina to iu mono arikeri.
  Once upon a time, there was a man named Taketori no Okina [the Old Bamboo Man].

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
“UVa Library eText Center: Japanese Text Initiative”, in University of Virginia‎, 2001, retrieved 2021-10-04

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