夜船

Japanese
Kanji in this term
夜 船
よ
Grade: 2		 ふね
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
夜舟

Etymology

From Old Japanese 夜船 (yopune).[1] Found in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.[2]

Analyzable as a compound of 夜 (yo, “night”) +‎ 船 (fune, “boat, ship”).[1][3][4][5][6]

Also encountered as yobune.[1][3][4][5][6] The fune changes to bune as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

夜(よ)船(ふね) or 夜船(よぶね) • (yofune or yobune) 

  1. a boat or ship travelling at night

Derived terms

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3624:
    , text here
  3. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 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
  6. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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