不老不死

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
ろう
Grade: 4

Grade: 4

Grade: 3
goon on’yomi goon on’yomi

Etymology

Analyzable as 不老(ふろう) (furō, ageless, not aging, forever young) + 不死(ふし) (fushi, immortal, never dying).

Likely originally from written Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Compare modern Mandarin 不老不死 (bùlǎobùsǐ). First cited in Japanese to the Utsubo Monogatari of the late 900s.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ろーふ [fùróó fúꜜshì] (Nakadaka – [4])[2][3]
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝɾo̞ː ɸɯ̟ᵝɕi]

Noun

()(ろう)()() • (furō fushi) ふらうふし (furaufusi)?

  1. [from 1179] eternal youth, perpetual youth and immortality

Derived terms

See also

  • 不老長寿(ふろうちょうじゅ) (furō chōju, ageless and long-lived)

References

  1. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

不老不死 • (bullobulsa) (hangeul 불로불사)

  1. Hanja form? of 불로불사 (perpetual youth and longevity).
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