人生字を識るは憂患の始め
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 人 | 生 | 字 | 識 | 憂 | 患 | 始 |
| じん Grade: 1 |
せい Grade: 1 |
じ Grade: 1 |
し Grade: 5 |
ゆう Grade: S |
かん Grade: S |
はじ Grade: 3 |
| on’yomi | on’yomi | kun’yomi | on’yomi | kun’yomi | ||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 人生字を識るは憂患の始め |
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Literary Chinese 人生識字憂患始 (rénshēng shízì yōuhuàn shǐ), which is a line in Su Shi's (蘇軾) poem 石蒼舒醉墨堂.
Idiom[edit]
人生字を識るは憂患の始め • (jinsei ji o shiru wa yūkan no hajime)
- misery of life starts at literacy; ignorance is bliss
See also[edit]
- 識字憂患 (shikiji yūkan)
- 知らぬが仏 (shiranu ga hotoke)
- 無知は至福である (muchi wa shifuku dearu)
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 人 read as じん
- Japanese terms spelled with 生 read as せい
- Japanese terms spelled with 字 read as じ
- Japanese terms spelled with 識 read as し
- Japanese terms spelled with 憂 read as ゆう
- Japanese terms spelled with 患 read as かん
- Japanese terms spelled with 始 read as はじ
- Japanese terms calqued from Literary Chinese
- Japanese terms derived from Literary Chinese
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese idioms
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with seven Han script characters
- Japanese proverbs