大和撫子

Japanese
Kanji in this term
大 和 撫 子
Grade: 1 Grade: 3 な(でし)
Jinmeiyō		 こ
Grade: 1

Etymology

From 大和 (やまと) (Yamato) + 撫子 (なでしこ) (nadeshiko).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) やまとなで​しこ [yàmátó nádéꜜshìkò] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ma̠to̞ na̠de̞ɕiko̞]

Noun

大和撫子 (hiragana やまとなでしこ, rōmaji yamato nadeshiko)

  1. Synonym of 撫子 (nadeshiko, “pink: any flower of the genus Dianthus”).
  2. Yamato nadeshiko, a woman who possesses the ideal classical Japanese feminine attributes.

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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