海原

Chinese
ocean; sea
 
former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source
simp. and trad.
(海原)		 海 原

Pronunciation

Proper noun

海原

  1. (～縣) Haiyuan County (county in Ningxia, China)

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
海 原
う(な)
Grade: 2		 はら > ばら
Grade: 2
Irregular

⟨u na para⟩ → /unapara/ → /unafara/ → /unabara/

First attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).

Originally a compound of 海 (う) (u, “sea, ocean”, compounding form) + な (Old Japanese possessive particle) + 原 (はら) (hara, “plain, field”).[1]

The shift to bara occurred in Middle Japanese, an instance of rendaku (連濁).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • (Irregular reading)

Noun

海原 (hiragana うなばら, rōmaji unabara)

  1. a wide ocean (or other surface of water)
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 7, poem 1089), text here
      大海 (おほうみ)尓 (に)嶋 (しま)毛 (も)不在 (あらなく)尓 (に)海 (うな)原 (はらの)絶塔 (たゆたふ)浪 (なみ)尓 (に)立有 (たてる)白雲 (しらくも) [Man'yōgana]
      大海 (おほうみ)に島 (しま)もあらなくに海原 (うなはら)のたゆたふ波 (なみ)に立 (た)てる白雲 (しらくも) [Modern spelling]
      ōumi ni shima mo aranaku ni unahara no tayutau nami ni tateru shirakumo
      On the vast ocean not a single island in sight and yet, far beyond the rolling surface of the sea, white clouds rising high.[4]

Proper noun

海原 (hiragana うなばら, rōmaji Unabara)

  1. a surname
Derived terms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
海 原
う > うの
Grade: 2		 はら
Grade: 2
Irregular

⟨u no2 para⟩ → /unopara/ → /unofara/ → /unohara/

The Eastern Old Japanese variant,[1] attested in poems of the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).

Originally a compound of 海 (う) (u, “sea, ocean”, compounding form) + の (possessive particle) + 原 (はら) (hara, “plain, field”).

Noun

海原 (hiragana うのはら, rōmaji unohara)

  1. (obsolete) a wide ocean (or other surface of water)
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4328), text here (also Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu, poem 18)
      於 (お)保 (ほ)吉 (き)美 (み)能 (の)美 (み)許 (こ)等 (と)可 (か)之 (し)古 (こ)美 (み)伊 (い)蘇 (そ)尓 (に)布 (ふ)理 (り)宇 (う)乃 (の)波 (は)良 (ら)和 (わ)多 (た)流 (る)知 (ち)々 (ち)波 (は)々 (は)乎 (を)於 (お)伎 (き)弖 (て) [Man'yōgana]
      大君 (おほきみ)の命 (みこと)畏 (かしこ)み磯 (いそ)に触 (ふ)り海原 (うのはら)渡 (わた)る父母 (ちちはは)を置 (お)きて [Modern spelling]
      ōkimi no mikoto kashikomi iso ni furi unohara wataru chichi-haha o okite
      Respectfully accepting the order of the Emperor, I must leave my parents shortly and go, my ship brushing submerged rocks at sea.[5]

Etymology 3
Kanji in this term
海 原
かい
Grade: 2		 はら > わら
Grade: 2
jūbakoyomi

Compound of 海 (kai, “sea, ocean”, the on'yomi or Chinese-derived reading) +‎ 原 (hara, “plain, field”, the kun'yomi or native Japanese reading). The shift of medial /h/ to /w/ is a regular sound change in certain compounds.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

海原 (hiragana かいわら, rōmaji Kaiwara, historical hiragana かいはら)

  1. a place name

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. J. Thomas Rimer (2014) Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals during the Interwar Years (Volume 1106 of Princeton Legacy Library), Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 294
  5. The East, Volumes 25-26, East Publications, original from the University of Virginia, 1989, page 45
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