道草

Japanese

Kanji in this term
みち
Grade: 2
くさ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) [mìchíkúsá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mʲit͡ɕikɯ̟̊ᵝsa̠]

Noun

(みち)(くさ) (michikusa) 

  1. grass on the wayside
  2. wasting time on the way
  3. dawdle

Verb

(みち)(くさ)する (michikusa suru) suru (stem (みち)(くさ) (michikusa shi), past (みち)(くさ)した (michikusa shita))

  1. to waste time on the way
  2. to take too long
  3. dawdle

Conjugation

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.