肩身が狭い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
肩 身 狭
かた
Grade: S 		み
Grade: 3 		せま
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
肩身が狹い (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ka̠ta̠mʲi ɡa̠ se̞ma̠i]

Adjective

肩(かた)身(み)が狭(せま)い • (katami ga semai) -i (adverbial 肩(かた)身(み)が狭(せま)く (katami ga semaku))

  1. feeling small, ashamed, unable to hold one's head high

Usage notes

  • This phrase has a syntactical subject 肩身. Thus the semantic subject is usually indefinite or implied. Otherwise, the semantic subject can be introduced as an absolute topic with は/も, or as the possessor of the syntactical subject with の. Also, the subject marker が may be omitted, giving 肩身狭い, or when the phrase is used attributively, may be replaced by の, giving 肩身の狭い.

Antonyms

  • 肩身が広い

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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