Japanese

分銅: traditional Japanese fundō, used to weigh coinage

分銅: Western-style fundō

分銅: the fundō family crest

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• ふんどう (Heiban)^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̃ᵝɴdo̞ː]

Noun

分銅 ‎(hiragana ふんどう, romaji fundō)

1. a metal weight, often made of copper, used in a balance scale; traditionally had a kind of hourglass shape
2. any gold or silver ingot cast in an hourglass shape; such ingots were formerly kept as emergency savings
3. (obsolete, slang) a 二朱銀 ‎(nishugin, “Edo-period coin of refined silver”)
4. any weight used with a balance scale
5. a 家紋 ‎(kamon, “family crest”) in the shape of a stylized fundō weight

Derived terms

• 分銅座 (ふんどうざ, ​Fundō-za): the weights guild: tasked by the Edo shogunate with standardizing weights and controlling their manufacture and distribution; abolished in February 1876
• 分銅桜 (ふんどうざくら, ​fundōzakura): a 家紋 ‎(kamon, “family crest”) in the shape of a 桜 ‎(sakura, “cherry blossom”), with each petal depicted using a fundō shape

External links

• 分銅 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja

Etymology 2

Alteration from fundō. Non-standard reading of don for 銅 may indicate influence from early Mandarin or Cantonese readings (modern tóng and tung²), or perhaps more likely, influence from an early version of Korean 銅 ‎(dong).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi, irregular
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̃ᵝɴdõ̞ɴ]

Noun

分銅 ‎(hiragana ふんどん, romaji fundon)

1. a fundō weight
2. a silver weight or 橙 ‎(daidai, “bitter orange”) tied to the end of a bit of string, used in a 宝引き ‎(hōbiki, a kind of lottery or draw straws)
3. a shape that is pinched in the middle like a fundō weight

Etymology 3

Alteration from fundō, using the go'on reading of bun for the 分 character.

Pronunciation

• On'yomi, irregular
• IPA^(key): [bɯ̃ᵝɴdo̞ː]

Noun

分銅 ‎(hiragana ぶんどう, romaji bundō)

1. a weight

Derived terms

• 分銅秤 (ぶんどうばかり, ​bundōbakari) a balance scale

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3