将棋倒し

Japanese
Kanji in this term
将 棋 倒
しょう
Grade: 6		 ぎ
Grade: S		 たお > だお
Grade: S
Alternative spelling
將棋倒し (kyūjitai)

Etymology

将棋 (shōgi, “Japanese chess”) plus the nominative form of 倒す (taosu, “knock over”). The tao reading for 倒 changes to dao as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

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Noun

将(しょう)棋(ぎ)倒(だお)し • (shōgidaoshi) ←しやうぎだふし (syaugidafusi)?

  1. falling over one after another, falling like dominoes, going like ninepins
  2. a stampede resulting in injury
  3. standing up shogi pieces in a line and knocking them over

References
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