バス停

Japanese
バス停 (basutei): a bus stop.
Kanji in this term
停
てい
Grade: 4
on’yomi

Etymology

English bus + Japanese 停留(ていりゅう, teiryū) (holding) + Japanese 所 position and this is an abbreviation for it.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) バスてー [bàsútéé] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ba̠sɨ̥ᵝte̞ː]

Noun

バス停 (hiragana and katakana バスてい, rōmaji basutei)

  1. bus stop

Derived terms
  • バス停留所 (ていりゅうじょ) (basu teiryūjo)

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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