ひっぱりだこ

Japanese
Alternative spellings
引っ張り凧
引っ張り蛸 (rare)
引っ張りだこ (most common)

Etymology

From 引(ひ)っ張(ぱ)り (hippari) + たこ (tako). The tako changes to dako as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ひっぱりだ​こ [hìppárídáꜜkò] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [çip̚pa̠ɾʲida̠ko̞]

Noun

ひっぱりだこ • (hippari-dako) 

  1. in great demand

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