腹違い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
はら
Grade: 6
ちが
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of (はら) (hara, belly) + (ちが) (chigai), the (れん)(よう)(けい) (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of the verb (ちが) (chigau, to differ).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) らちがい [hàráchíꜜgàì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ha̠ɾa̠t͡ɕiɡa̠i]

Noun

(はら)(ちが) • (harachigai

  1. one born of the same father but different mother, a paternal half sibling
    腹違(はらちが)(いもうと)
    harachigai no imōto
    younger paternal half-sister
    • 1921, Hasegawa Shigure, Issei Okoi, Aozora Bunko, published 2007, page 84:
      それから()(ども)のことだって、(じゅう)()(にん)もある()(ども)で、(はら)(ちが)(おお)いから、お(まえ)()として(そだ)って()たものを、また(ほか)()(のて)(わた)しては()(ども)可哀(かわい)そうだからと、すっかりあたしの()になさったのを、(だれ)(きょう)(いく)をたのもうというのでしょう。
      Sore kara kodomo no koto datte, jūninin mo aru kodomo de, harachigai ga ōi kara, omae no ko to shite sodatte kita mono o, mata hoka no mono no te e watashite wa kodomo ga kawaisō dakara to, sukkari atashi no ko ni nasatta no o, dare ni kyōiku o tanomō to iu no deshō.
      Then there is the matter of children, twelve of them, mainly half siblings you took in because you said it would be cruel to leave them to others. But now that they are my responsibility, who shall I get to educate them?
    • 1936, Yumeno Kyusaku, “Kasei no onna [Mars woman]”, in Shōjo Jigoku [Girl’s Hell]‎[1], Aozora Bunko, published 2011:
      (いま)(はは)()みました(はら)(ちが)(いもうと)二人(ふたり)ありま、二人(ふたり)とも普通(ふつう)背恰好(せかっこう)(おんな)ですのに、どうして(わたし)ばかりがコンナ(しん)(たい)( う)まれ()きましたのか()()()でなりません。
      Ima no haha ga umimashita harachigai no imōto ga futari arima, futari to mo futsū no sekakkō no onna desu no ni, dōshite watashi bakari ga konna shintai ni umaretsukimashita no ka fushigi de narimasen.
      My mother now has two half-sisters with a different mother, both of whom are of average build, so I can't help but wonder how I came to be born into this curious body.
    • 1941, Shūsei Tokuda, Shukuzu, Aozora Bunko, published 2012, section 12:
      (ひな)()(いもうと)といっても、(はら)(ちが)であり、()(ぎく)はお(しの)にとって()()(むすめ)であった。
      Hinako wa imōto to itte mo, harachigai deari, Kogiku wa Oshino ni totte giri no musume deatta.
      Hinako was said to be her younger sister, though they were half sisters, Kogiku being Oshino's stepdaughter.

References

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