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Topic: Yojijukugo


  
  kanji
Yojijukugo is a Japanese idiom consisted of four kanji.
In other words, you can also say that yojijukugo is a piece of art, of building up four kanji with individual meanings into one phrase with one meaning.
I sometimes see non-Japanese people with yojijukugo tatoos, but there are some that makes me wonder if they really know the meaning.
www.jmode.com /kanji/kanji_jukugo-23.html   (520 words)

  
  Yojijukugo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yojijukugo (四字熟語) in Japanese refers to a compound word consisting of four kanji, or Chinese characters.
The definition of yojijukugo is somewhat murky since the Japanese term 熟語 jukugo means either compound or idiom.
Yojijukugo in the broad sense of the term simply means any Japanese compound words consisting of four kanji characters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yojijukugo   (827 words)

  
 Four-character Idiom (Yojijukugo)
Yojijukugo (四字熟語, Yojijukugo "four character compound word") is a Japanese lexeme consisting of four kanji, or "Chinese characters".
Yojijukugo in the broad sense of the term simply means any Japanese compound words consisting of four kanji characters.
In the narrow or strict sense of the term, however, the term refers only to four-kanji compounds that have a particular (idiomatic) meaning that cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make them up.
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