五月蝿い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 1 Hyōgaiji
Irregular

Etymology

The spelling is a form of jukujikun (熟字訓), and is used in the novels of Natsume Soseki. The literal meaning of the spelling is 五月 (May, the month, normally read gogatsu) + (fly, the insect, normally read hae) + (i, a common adjective-forming suffix), from the way that annoying and noisy flies tend to swarm in May.[1]

See the うるさい (urusai) entry for fuller details.

Alternative forms

Adjective

五月蝿い (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 五月蠅い, -i inflection, hiragana うるさい, rōmaji urusai)

  1. noisy
  2. irritating

Usage notes

Inflection

References

  1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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