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座布団
ざぶとん
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cushion (Japanese)
A zabuton is a “seat futon”, with ふとん voicing to ぶとん.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
この座布団を干して下さい。
Please air the zabuton.
お祖母さんが座布団の上にちんまりとすわっていました。
The old woman was snugly sitting on a cushion.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of 座(ざ) (za, “seat”) + 布団(ふとん) (futon, “futon”). The futon reading for 布団 changes to buton as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 座布団 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).