米蔵

Japanese

Kanji in this term
米	蔵
こめ Grade: 2	くら > ぐら Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
米藏 (kyūjitai) 米倉

Etymology

米(こめ) (kome, “rice”) + 蔵(くら) (kura, “storehouse”). The kura changes to gura as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) こめぐら [kòmégúrá] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ko̞me̞ɡɯ̟ɾa̠]

Noun

米(こめ)蔵(ぐら) • (komegura)

rice granary

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN