瓦全

Japanese
Kanji in this term
瓦 全
が
Grade: S		 ぜん
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

From the Chinese idiom 寧可玉碎，不能瓦全. Literally "a tile kept in whole".

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) がぜん [gàzéń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɡa̠zẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

瓦(が)全(ぜん) • (gazen) 

  1. meaningless existence
    Antonym: 玉砕

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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