直訳

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ちょく
Grade: 2
やく
Grade: 6
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
直譯 (kyūjitai)

Adjective

(ちょく)(やく) (chokuyaku) 

  1. translated literally
    • 2015 May 11, Morales, Daniel, “In Japanese, mastery of the space-time continuum is just a few words away”, in The Japan Times, retrieved 2023-04-11:
      Then make a sentence: Nete iru inu o okosanai hō ga ii (寝ている犬を起こさないほうがいい, “It’s best not to wake sleeping dogs”), a translation of the famous proverb — perhaps a little too chokuyaku (直訳, directly translated).

Noun

(ちょく)(やく) (chokuyaku) 

  1. literal translation

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Verb

(ちょく)(やく)する (chokuyaku suru) suru (stem (ちょく)(やく) (chokuyaku shi), past (ちょく)(やく)した (chokuyaku shita))

  1. to translate literally

Conjugation

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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