しかばね
Japanese
Etymology
Compound of 死 (shi, “death, dead”) + 尸, 屍 (kabane, “corpse, dead body”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
しかばね • (shikabane)
Derived terms
Idioms
- 屍に鞭を打つ (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
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN