基層文化

Reading

Kana: きそうぶんか

Romaji: kisoubunka

Definition

noun

1

deep culture; fundamental culture (term created by German folkorist Hans Naumann)

See also: 表層文化

Kanji

基

Readings: キ、 もと、 もとい

Meanings: fundamentals, radical (chem), counter for machines, foundation

層

Reading: ソウ

Meanings: stratum, social class, layer, story, floor

文

Readings: ブン、 モン、 ふみ、 あや

Meanings: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)

化

Readings: カ、 ケ、 ば.ける、 ば.かす、 ふ.ける、 け.する

Meanings: change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization