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社会

社会

See also: 社會

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see 社會.
(This term, 社会, is the simplified form of 社會.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しゃ
Grade: 2
かい
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 社會 (dzyæX hwajH, public gathering where people offer to the earth god)

Pronunciation

Noun

社会 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 社會, hiragana しゃかい, romaji shakai, historical hiragana しやくわい)

  1. society
    • 1910, 森鷗外, 鴎外漁史とは誰ぞ:
       (ひと)社会 (しゃかい) ()動物 (どうぶつ)だ。
      Hito wa shakai o nasu dōbutsu da.
      Man is an animal that builds societies / Man is a social animal.
  2. class, world of a certain group
    • 1904, 河口慧海, チベット旅行記:
      これらは中等以下 (ちゅうとういか)社会 (しゃかい) (ひと) (おお)い。
      Kore-ra wa chūtō ika no shakai no hito ni ōi.
      These are very common among people from the middle and lower classes.
    • 1929, 平林初之輔, 昭和四年の文壇の概観:
      ちょうどそれは金融寡頭政治 (きんゆうかとうせいじ)社会 (しゃかい)とよく ()ている。
      Chōdo sore wa kin'yū katōseiji no shakai to yoku nite iru.
      It looks exactly like a world of financial oligarchs.

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References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0