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煙管
煙管
Japanese
煙管 (kiseru): a traditional Japanese smoking pipe
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 煙 | 管 |
| Grade: S | Grade: 4 |
| Irregular | |
Pronunciation
Noun
煙管 (hiragana きせる, katakana キセル, romaji kiseru) (alternative reading katakana キセリ, romaji kiseri) (alternative reading katakana キセロ, romaji kisero)
- a tobacco pipe with a metal stem
- (slang) a way of cheating on one's train fare
- The train rider purchases two tickets, one for a short distance at the start of the journey, and one for a short distance at the end of the journey. In this way, the rider can avoid having to pay full fare for the total distance traveled.
- A pun on the way that there is 金 (kane, “metal; money”) on both ends, but not in the middle, similar to a kiseru pipe.
- (slang) a way of buying votes for an election
- The vote buyer pays the voter part before the election and part after (assuming the election buyer wins).
- A pun on the way that there is 金 (kane, “metal; money”) on both ends, but not in the middle, similar to a kiseru pipe.
- (obsolete) during the Edo period, someone who sold slow match to theater-goers to use to light their pipes
Synonyms
- (fare dodging): 不正乗車 (fusei jōsha) (official, formal), ただ乗り (tadanori) (not paying any fare at all)
- (slow match seller): 火縄売 (hinawauri)
Verb
煙管する (hiragana きせるする, romaji kiseru suru)
Conjugation
Conjugation of "煙管する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 煙管し | きせるし | kiseru shi | |
| Continuative (連用形) | 煙管し | きせるし | kiseru shi | |
| Terminal (終止形) | 煙管する | きせるする | kiseru suru | |
| Attributive (連体形) | 煙管する | きせるする | kiseru suru | |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 煙管すれ | きせるすれ | kiseru sure | |
| Imperative (命令形) | 煙管せよ¹ 煙管しろ² |
きせるせよ¹ きせるしろ² |
kiseru seyo¹ kiseru shiro² |
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| Key constructions | ||||
| Passive | 煙管される | きせるされる | kiseru sareru | |
| Causative | 煙管させる 煙管さす |
きせるさせる きせるさす |
kiseru saseru kiseru sasu |
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| Potential | 煙管できる | きせるできる | kiseru dekiru | |
| Volitional | 煙管しよう | きせるしよう | kiseru shiyō | |
| Negative | 煙管しない | きせるしない | kiseru shinai | |
| Negative continuative | 煙管せず | きせるせず | kiseru sezu | |
| Formal | 煙管します | きせるします | kiseru shimasu | |
| Perfective | 煙管した | きせるした | kiseru shita | |
| Conjunctive | 煙管して | きせるして | kiseru shite | |
| Hypothetical conditional | 煙管すれば | きせるすれば | kiseru sureba | |
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative | ||||
Etymology 2
煙管 (enkan, “fire tube”): the red horizontal lines are the fire tubes
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 煙 | 管 |
|
えん Grade: S |
かん Grade: 4 |
| on'yomi | |
From Middle Chinese 煙管 (ʔen kwanX). Compare modern Mandarin 煙管／烟管 (yānguǎn).
Pronunciation
Noun
煙管 (hiragana えんかん, romaji enkan, historical hiragana えんくわん)
- a fire tube or boiler tube in a steam engine: a pipe that conducts hot gasses from combustion to heat the boiler
- a smokestack or chimney
- a tobacco pipe with a metal stem (same as above; kiseru reading more common)
Synonyms
External links
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蒸気機関車の構成要素 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja -- (fire tube): see #28 in the diagram - Fire-tube boiler on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- 1 2 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ Suzuki, Tatsuya (November 1999) 喫煙伝来史の研究 (Kitsuen Denraishi no Kenkyū, “Research into the History of the Introduction of Smoking”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shibunkaku, ISBN 4-7842-1018-0
- 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3