舟に刻みて剣を求む
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 舟 | 刻 | 剣 | 求 |
| ふね Grade: S |
きざ Grade: 6 |
けん Grade: S |
もと Grade: 4 |
| kun’yomi | kun’yomi | on’yomi | kun’yomi |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 舟に刻みて劍を求む (kyūjitai) 船に刻みて剣を求む |
Etymology[edit]
Literally "to carve a mark on a ship (where a sword was dropped into the sea) in the hope of finding the sword later near that carving." Calque of Literary Chinese 刻舟求劍 (kèzhōuqiújiàn).
Idiom[edit]
舟に刻みて剣を求む • (fune ni kizamite ken o motomu)
- (figuratively) Foolish it is to ignore that times are changing.
References[edit]
- The Kōjien (広辞苑) Dictionary of the Japanese Language, 5th edition, Iwanami Shoten Publishing, Tokyo.
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 舟 read as ふね
- Japanese terms spelled with 刻 read as きざ
- Japanese terms spelled with 剣 read as けん
- Japanese terms spelled with 求 read as もと
- Japanese terms calqued from Literary Chinese
- Japanese terms derived from Literary Chinese
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese idioms
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with four Han script characters
- Japanese proverbs