Uri-baUri-ba is a native Japanese word, from uru 'to sell' and -ba 'a place'. It refers to a sales counter or sales window. Based on the derivation, uri-ba could be written
In some cases, uriba can be found in hiragana, as in the example below:
A Google search in August 2003 revealed the following distribution for uri-ba on the Internet, with figures for the similar construction nori-ba (see noriba) shown at right:
Compared to nori-ba, uri-ba
shows a much higher proportion of kanji only ( |
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