豚に真珠
Japanese
kanjitab
Definitions
- (idiomatic) "pearls to swine" → to cast pearls before swine
Etymology
Affix from Japanese 豚 (pig) + Japanese に (to, particle for direction, ni, directional particle, adverbial particle)+ Japanese 真珠 (pearl).
Origin
Japanese
真珠
Gloss
pearl
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
珠
Emoji
💧 🦪 🧋
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- shinju English
- お大事に Japanese
- なり Japanese
- に Japanese
- ほんのこて Japanese
- までに Japanese
- ミニ豚 Japanese
- 兎に角 Japanese
- 土豚 Japanese
- 大事に Japanese
- 常に Japanese
- 弓は袋に太刀は鞘 Japanese
- 気にする Japanese
- 真珠 Japanese
- 真珠湾 Japanese
- 真珠貝 Japanese
- 豚 Japanese
- 豚の饅頭 Japanese
- 豚もおだてりゃ木に登る Japanese
- 豚コレラ Japanese
- 豚小屋 Japanese
- 豚箱 Japanese
- 豚舎 Japanese
- 豚草 Japanese
- 身につける Japanese
- 黒豚 Japanese
- 豚 Chinese