糸電話

Japanese

Kanji in this term
糸	電	話
いと Grade: 1	でん Grade: 2	わ Grade: 2

Etymology

糸 (ito, “string”) +‎ 電話 (denwa, “telephone”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) いとでんわ [ìtódéꜜǹwà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
IPA^(key): [ito̞dẽ̞ɰ̃ɰᵝa̠]

Noun

糸電話 (hiragana いとでんわ, rōmaji itodenwa)

tin can telephone

References

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

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