荷車

Japanese

Kanji in this term
荷	車
に Grade: 3	くるま > ぐるま Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Etymology

荷(に) (ni, “luggage, cargo”) + 車(くるま) (kuruma, “wheeled vehicle”). The kuruma changes to guruma as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) にぐるま [nìgúꜜrùmà] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ɲ̟iɡɯ̟ɾɯ̟ma̠]

Noun

荷(に)車(ぐるま) • (niguruma)

cart
馬(うま)が荷(に)車(ぐるま)を引(ひ)く。 ― Uma ga niguruma o hiku. ― A horse pulls a cart.

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