冒頭

See also: 冒头

Chinese

 
to cover; to emit; to manifest
to cover; to emit; to manifest; to risk; bold; brave
head; (noun suffix)
trad. (冒頭) 冒 頭
simp. (冒头) 冒 头

Pronunciation


Verb

冒頭

  1. to emerge; to crop up
  2. (after numbers) to exceed by a little; to be a little over

Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
冒 頭
ぼう
Grade: S
とう
Grade: 2
kan’on

Etymology

Derivation uncertain. May be from written Chinese 冒頭/冒头 (màotóu), analyzable as 冒 (“to emerge”) + 頭 (“the head; the top; the beginning”).

First cited in Japanese to the 1880s.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ぼーとー [bòótóó] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [bo̞ːto̞ː]

Noun

冒(ぼう)頭(とう) • (bōtō) 

  1. [from the 1880s] the lead-in, the head, the introductory portion, the beginning of a text
  2. [from the early 1900s] the beginning (more generally)
    Synonyms: 始め (hajime), 始まり (hajimari)

Verb

冒(ぼう)頭(とう)する • (bōtō suru) suru (stem 冒(ぼう)頭(とう)し (bōtō shi), past 冒(ぼう)頭(とう)した (bōtō shita))

  1. to lead into a text, to make introductory remarks

Conjugation

References

  1. “冒頭”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
冒頭

Noun

冒頭 • (modu) (hangeul 모두)

  1. Hanja form? of 모두 (“beginning of a talk or story”).
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