凹凸
Chinese
FWOTD – 14 August 2014
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Pronunciation
Adjective
凹凸
- uneven; bumpy; rugged
- 不是我無食力身軀閃這一滑,多管是少人行山路凹凸。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: 14th century, Poetry by Qin Jianfu
- Bùshì wǒ wú shílì shēnqū shǎn zhè yī huá, duōguǎn shì shǎo rén xíng shānlù āotū. [Pinyin]
- The reason I slipped is not because my starving body was feeble; it was due to the roughness of the mountain road since not many people had walked on this.
不是我无食力身躯闪这一滑,多管是少人行山路凹凸。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (optics, mathematics) concavo-convex
Descendants
Sino-Xenic (凹凸):
- → Japanese: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- → Korean: 요철(凹凸) (yocheol)
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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凹 | 凸 |
おう Grade: S |
とつ Grade: S |
kan’on |
Etymology
/aputotu/ → /aɸutotu/ → */awutot͡su/ → /autot͡su/ → /ɔːtot͡su/ → /oːtot͡su/
Ultimately from Middle Chinese 凹凸 (MC 'eap dwot). Appears in texts from at least the 1600s.[1]
Noun
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Anagrams
- 凸凹 (dekoboko)
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