都落ち

Japanese

Kanji in this term
みやこ
Grade: 3

Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
落ち (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From (miyako, capital city) + 落ち (ochi, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of verb 落ちる (ochiru), “to end in).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) やこおち [mìyákóóchí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mʲija̠ko̞o̞t͡ɕi]

Noun

(みやこ)() • (miyakoochi) 

  1. escaping from Kyoto (or other capital) to the provinces
  2. moving house from a large city, especially Tokyo, to the provinces
  3. (card games) in 大富豪 (daifugō), a rule that when the top player (also known as daifugō) cannot win, that player will be in last place or 大貧民 (daihinmin)

Verb

(みやこ)()する • (miyakoochi suru) suru (stem (みやこ)() (miyakoochi shi), past (みやこ)()した (miyakoochi shita))

  1. to escape from Kyoto (or other capital) to the provinces
  2. to move house from a large city, especially Tokyo, to the provinces
  3. (card games) in 大富豪 (daifugō), to be placed in 大貧民 (daihinmin) with the miyakoochi rule

Conjugation

References

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