川下り

Japanese
Kanji in this term
川 下
かわ
Grade: 1		 くだ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

From 川 (kawa, “river," "stream," "brook"”) +‎ 下り (kudari, “going down," "outbound”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 下る (kudaru, “to descend”)).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) かわく​だり [kàwákúꜜdàrì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2][3]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠ɰᵝa̠kɯ̟ᵝda̠ɾʲi]

Noun

川(かわ)下(くだ)り • (kawakudari) ←かはくだり (kafakudari)?

  1. going downstream, e.g. in a boat

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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