おさながお

Japanese

Alternative spellings
幼顔幼な顔おさな顔

Etymology

From 幼(おさな) (osana-) + 顔(かお) (kao). The kao changes to gao as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) おさながお [òsánáꜜgàò] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
(Tokyo) おさながお [òsánágáó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
IPA^(key): [o̞sa̠na̠ɡa̠o̞]

Noun

おさながお • (osanagao) ^{←をさながほ (wosanagafo)^?}

(poetic) young face

Synonyms

童顔(どうがん) (dōgan)

References

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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