homophonyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

This is a joke playing on the homophony of "odd" as an odd number as opposed to an even number, and "odd" as in "strange."発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

偶数(even)奇数(odd)と奇妙(odd)を掛けたジョーク。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Students sitting for entrance examinations or athletes before a match often eat katsudons a day before or on the day of such an event, believing in the auspicious homophony between the words, 'katsu' (to win) and 'katsu' (cutlet) which might bring them luck.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

受験生や試合に臨むスポーツ選手の「勝つ」という験担ぎのために、前日や当日にカツ丼が食べられる事がある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

As a special example, there is a case in which Sendai City in Kagoshima Prefecture became Satsumasendai City by attaching the old provincial name of Satsuma to Sendai which was homophony of Sendai City in Miyagi Prefecture although the Chinese characters that make up the word is different from that of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture; this city name was created at the time of merger (the nearby local governments disliked the image of incorporated merger and this was one reason why Sendai City became Satsumasendai City).発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

また、特殊な例としては鹿児島県の川内市が宮城県の仙台市と同音の「せんだい」であったことから合併に際して旧国名を冠し薩摩川内市となった事例がある（周辺自治体が編入合併のイメージを嫌ったことも理由）。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス