扼する

Japanese

Kanji in this term
やく
Hyōgaiji
goon

Etymology

From classical verb 扼す (yakusu).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) くす [yàkúsúꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠kɯ̟ᵝsɨᵝɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

(やく)する • (yakusuru) suru (stem (やく) (yakushi), past (やく)した (yakushita))

  1. to clasp, to hold tightly, to command
    • 1939, Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko, Tokyo: Kodansha, published 1990:
      (ぶん)()(てき)には、ここは(よく)()をかかえ、(けん)(ざん)()い、(きょう)()(しょ)()(ほう)への(こう)(つう)()(やく)して(てん)(さん)(めぐ)まれ、(のう)(こう)(さか)んだし、— (みず)(うるわ)しく、(おんな)もきれいだが、()(よし)(こころ)のうちで、「()えている!」と、()た。
      Bunka-teki ni wa, koko wa yokuya o kakae, kenzan o oi, Kyōto shochihō e no kōtsūro o yakushite, tensan ni megumare, nōkō mo sakandashi,— mizu wa uruwashiku, onna mo kirei da ga, Hiyoshi wa kokoro no uchi de,“Sueteiru!” to, mita.
      Culturally, this place held fertile plains, bore steep mountains, commanded the travel routes to Kyoto and several other regions, and was blessed with natural products; agriculture and industry were abundant — the water was pure and the women were beautiful, but Hiyoshi, in his heart, looked at it and thought, “It's rotting!”
  2. to hold down, to press down, to crush, to repress
  3. to press a point

Conjugation

Idioms

  • (いん)(こう)(やく)する (inkō o yakusuru)

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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