お釣り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
釣
つ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
お釣御釣り御釣

Etymology

御(お) (o-, polite prefix) + 釣(つ)り (tsuri, “change”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) おつり [òtsúrí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [o̞t͡sɨɾʲi]

Noun

お釣(つ)り • (o-tsuri)

(polite) change (money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item)

Synonyms

釣(つ)り銭(せん) (tsurisen)
釣(つ)り (tsuri)

See also

小銭(こぜに) (kozeni, “loose change”)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN