競歩

Japanese
Kanji in this term
競 歩
きょう
Grade: 4		 ほ
Grade: 2
kan’yōon kan’on
Alternative spelling
競步 (kyūjitai)
競歩 (kyōho): the 2005 racewalking championship competition.

Etymology

*/kjauho/ → */kjɔːho/ → /kjoːho/

May be a coinage in Japanese from Middle Chinese-derived roots, as a compound of 競 (kyō, “competition, race”) +‎ 歩 (ho, “walking”).

First appears in texts from 1932.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

競(きょう)歩(ほ) • (kyōho) ←きやうほ (kyaufo)?

  1. racewalking

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  4. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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