四輪車

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
四 輪 車
よん
Grade: 1		 りん
Grade: 4		 しゃ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi on’yomi

Compound of 四輪 (yonrin, “four wheels, four-wheeled”) +‎ 車 (-sha, “vehicle, car”).[1][2][3]

First cited to 1881.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) よんり​んしゃ [yòńríꜜǹshà] (Nakadaka – [3])[4]
  • IPA(key): [jõ̞nɾʲĩɰ̃ɕa̠]

Noun

四(よん)輪(りん)車(しゃ) • (yonrinsha) 

  1. [from 1881] a four-wheeled vehicle, automobile, car
Synonyms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
四 輪 車
し
Grade: 1		 りん
Grade: 4		 しゃ
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Compound of 四輪 (shirin, “four wheels, four-wheeled”) +‎ 車 (-sha, “vehicle, car”).[1][2]

First cited to roughly 1810.[1] This reading appears to have been largely replaced by yonrinsha, possibly due to the Buddhist connotations of the shirin reading for 四輪 in reference to the four wheels holding up the world.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɕiɾʲĩɰ̃ɕa̠]

Noun

四(し)輪(りん)車(しゃ) • (shirinsha) 

  1. [from 1810] a four-wheeled vehicle, automobile, car

References
  1. “四輪車”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
四輪車

Noun

四輪車 • (saryuncha) (hangeul 사륜차)

  1. Hanja form? of 사륜차 (“a four-wheeled vehicle, automobile, car”).
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