誓い
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 誓 |
| ちか Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
Etymology[edit]
連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 誓う (chikau, “to swear, vow”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Tokyo) ちかい [ch
ìkáí] (Heiban – [0])[1][2] - (Tokyo) ちかい [ch
ìkáꜜì] (Nakadaka – [2])[2] - IPA(key): [t͡ɕi̥ka̠i]
Noun[edit]
- an oath, pledge
- c. 1005, Shūi Wakashū (book 14, poem 870; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 38)
- 忘らるる身をば思はず誓ひてし人のいのちの惜しくもあるかな
- wasuraruru mi o ba omowazu chikaite shi hito no inochi no oshiku mo aru kana
- It does not matter that I am now forgotten, but making an oath is the most precious moment in the whole life of a man.[3]
- 忘らるる身をば思はず誓ひてし人のいのちの惜しくもあるかな
- c. 1005, Shūi Wakashū (book 14, poem 870; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 38)
- (Shinto, Buddhism) vow that the Buddha pledged to save sentient beings (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
References[edit]
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- ^ Fujiwara no Sadaie, Tom Galt (2014) The Little Treasury of One Hundred People, One Poem Each (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation), Princeton University Press, →ISBN