輸する

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
on’yomi

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Chinese (MC syu|syuH). The kanji uses kan’yōon (yu).

The seemingly unrelated senses "to transport" and "to be inferior" may be due to being a semantic loan from Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) [yùsúꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [jɯ̟ᵝsɨᵝɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

()する • (yusuru) transitive suru (stem () (yushi), past ()した (yushita))

  1. (rare) to transport; to deliver
  2. (rare) to be inferior to; to be surpassed

Conjugation

References

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