yojijukugo
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thumbnail|upright=1.4|, meaning "revere heaven, love people". Calligraphy by Saigō Takamori. A is a Japanese lexeme consisting of four kanji (Chinese characters). English translations of include "four-character compound", "four-character idiom", "four-character idiomatic phrase", and "four-character idiomatic compound". It is equivalent to the Chinese , from which it is derived.
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Definition and classification
- Non-idiomatic {{Transliteration|ja|yojijukugo}}
- Idiomatic {{Transliteration|ja|yojijukugo}}
- Chinese and Japanese origins of idiomatic {{Transliteration|ja|yojijukugo}}
- Examples of idiomatic yojijukugo
- See also
- References
- External links
thumbnail|upright=1.4|, meaning "revere heaven, love people". Calligraphy by Saigō Takamori. A is a Japanese lexeme consisting of four kanji (Chinese characters). English translations of include "four-character compound", "four-character idiom", "four-character idiomatic phrase", and "four-character idiomatic compound". It is equivalent to the Chinese , from which it is derived.
== Definition and classification == in the broad sense refers to Japanese compound words consisting of four kanji characters, which may contain an idiomatic meaning or simply be a compound noun. However, in the narrow or strict sense, the term refers only to four-kanji compounds that have a particular (idiomatic) meaning, which cannot be inferred from the meanings of the components that make them up.
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