剣呑

Japanese

Kanji in this term
けん
Grade: S
のん
Hyōgai
on'yomi irregular
Alternative spellings
劍呑 (kyūjitai)
険難
険呑

Etymology

Said to be a shift from (けん)(なん) (kennan, the misfortune of dying or being wounded by a sword).[1]

Adjective

(けん)(のん) • (kennon-na (adnominal (けん)(のん) (kennon na), adverbial (けん)(のん) (kennon ni))

  1. risky, dangerous

Inflection

References

  1. ^ 剣呑”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months