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顔映し

顔映し

Japanese

Kanji in this term
顔 映
かお > かわ
Grade: 2 		はゆ
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Adjective

顔映し ‎(-i inflection, hiragana かわはゆし, romaji kawahayushi, historical hiragana かははゆし)

  1. (archaic) red-faced
  2. (archaic) embarrassed, guilty of conscience
    • c. 1120: Konjaku Monogatarishū 19.9
      然レドモ極テカハゝユク思エテ、此ノ事ヲ人ニ不云ズシテ耄ケ行ク程ニ

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  • Yamada, Yoshio; Tadao Yamada, Hideo Yamada, Toshio Yamada (1962-03-05) Konjaku Monogatarishū (Volume 4) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0025-7

Etymology

Appears in sources from the late Heian period.

Compound of 顔 ‎(kawo, “face”, classical reading; kao in modern Japanese) +‎ 映し ‎(hayushi, “florid, flushed”).[1][2]

/kawo hajuɕi/ → /kawa hajuɕi/

Note that 顔 ‎(kao) in modern Japanese was historically pronounced /kapo/, shifting to /kafo/ and then to /kawo/ by the 11th century. When combined with 映ゆし ‎(hayushi), the /kawo/ shifted to become /kawa/ + /hajuɕi/. This appears to be the only word where the final -o in kawo shifted to -a; this may have been influenced by the initial -a- in hayushi.

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