| 释义 |
‖ iroha|iˈroha|
Also irofa, irova.
[Jap., named from the first three syllables i, ro, and ha or fa.]
The Japanese kana or syllabary.
1845Encycl. Metrop. XX. 482/2 They..formed a collection of 47 syllables, comprehending all the sounds which are found in their language... This syllabarium, or alphabet, is called irofa, from its three first elements. 1868J. J. Hoffman Japanese Gram. 9 To facilitate the learning of the Japanese sounds or syllables, they have been so arranged as to compose a couple of sentences, and as these begin with the word Irová, that name has been given to the Japanese alphabet. 1890B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 379 The order of the I-ro-ha bears witness to the Buddhist belief of the father of Japanese writing. 1903C. Noss tr. Lange's Text-bk. Colloquial Japanese Introd. p. xvi, There is another arrangement of the syllabary called iroha... This is in the form of a stanza of poetry giving expression to Buddhistic sentiment. 1937I. Nitobé Lect. Japan xi. 177 Our language is polysyllabic and is expressed in forty-seven sounds... We call the whole collection a syllab[a]ry instead of an alphabet. In our own language it is called i-ro-ha from the first three syllables. 1967R. A. Miller Japanese Lang. iii. 127 The kana symbols have at various times been arranged into mnemonic word lists... One such is the ame tsuchi list... A somewhat later example..is the iroha list..thought today to have been the work of the priest Kūya (903–972) or of the priest Senkan (918–983). |