火箸

Chinese

 
fire; angry; fierce
fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving
chopsticks
trad. (火箸) 火 箸
simp. #(火箸) 火 箸

Pronunciation


Noun

火箸

  1. (dialectal) fire tongs

Synonyms

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
火 箸
ひ
Grade: 1
はし > ばし
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From 火(ひ) (hi, “fire”) + 箸(はし) (hashi, “chopsticks”). The hashi changes to bashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

火(ひ)箸(ばし) • (hibashi) 

  1. fire tongs

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
火 箸
こ
Grade: 1
じ
Grade: S
tōon irregular
Alternative spellings
火匙
火筯 (deprecated)

The pronunciation is derived from the alternative spelling 火匙(こ​じ) (ko​ji), although the word is now more commonly written with the character 箸.

Pronunciation

Noun

火(こ)箸(じ) • (koji) 

  1. fire tongs
  2. (in Kōdō, the traditional Japanese art of incense burning) metal chopsticks used to manipulate the charcoal used

References

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