棒引き

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ぼう
Grade: 6
ひ > び
Grade: 2
jūbakoyomi

Etymology

 (ぼう) () +  () (hiki), with rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

棒引き (hiragana ぼうびき, rōmaji bōbiki, historical hiragana ばうびき)

  1. drawing a straight line
  2. writing off, cancelling out (debt)
  3. long-vowel mark () in Japanese

Verb

棒引きする (hiragana ぼうびきする, rōmaji bōbiki suru, historical hiragana ばうびきする)

  1. to draw a straight line
  2. to write off, to cancel out (debt)

Conjugation

References

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