しかばね

Japanese

Etymology

Compound of 死 (shi, “death, dead”) +‎ 尸, 屍 (kabane, “corpse, dead body”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しかばね [shìkábáné] (Heiban – [0])[2]
IPA^(key): [ɕika̠ba̠ne̞]

Noun

しかばね • (shikabane)

尸, 屍: corpse
尸: short for 尸冠 (shikabane kanmuri), the 尸 radical

Derived terms

尸(しかばね)冠(かんむり) (shikabane kanmuri): the 尸 radical

Idioms

屍(しかばね)に鞭(むち)を打(う)つ (shikabane ni muchi o utsu): “to beat a whip against a corpse” → to speak ill of the dead; also, general metaphor for something excessively cruel

References

Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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