杜撰

Chinese

Du (surname) compose; compile
trad. (杜撰)
simp. #(杜撰)
Literally: “written by Du (Mo)”.

Etymology

From the name of a Song Dynasty poet Du Mo, whose poetry works often do not conform to the metre patterns of classical Chinese poetry.

Pronunciation


Verb

杜撰

  1. to fabricate; to forge; to make up

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (杜撰):
  • Japanese: 杜撰(ずさん) (zusan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Jinmeiyō
さん
Jinmeiyō
goon kan’on

Etymology

/dusan//d͡zusaɴ//zusaɴ/

Borrowed from Chinese 杜撰 (dùzhuàn).

Also pronounced zuzan (with rendaku) in older texts.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

()(さん) (zusan) づさん (dusan)?-na (adnominal ()(さん) (zusan na), adverbial ()(さん) (zusan ni))

  1. sloppy, careless
    Synonyms: 粗漏 (sorō), でたらめ (detarame)

Inflection

Noun

()(さん) (zusan) づさん (dusan)?

  1. sloppiness, carelessness
  2. a piece of writing with either unreliable sources or many errors

Derived terms

Verb

()(さん)する (zusan suru) づさん (dusan)?suru (stem ()(さん) (zusan shi), past ()(さん)した (zusan shita))

  1. to make sloppy errors

Conjugation

References

  1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. Takebayashi, Shigeru (1993) The Kenkyusha Japanese-English Learner's Pocket Dictionary, Tōkyō: Kenkyūsha, →ISBN.
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