一番星

Japanese

Kanji in this term
一	番	星
いち Grade: 1	ばん Grade: 2	ほし > ぼし Grade: 2

Etymology

From 一番 (いちばん) (ichiban, “first”) + 星 (ほし) (hoshi, “star”). The hoshi changes to boshi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) いちばんぼし [ìchíbáꜜǹbòshì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
IPA^(key): [it͡ɕibã̠mbo̞ɕi]

Noun

一番星 (hiragana いちばんぼし, rōmaji ichibanboshi)

first star of an evening

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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