討ち死に

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 6
し > じ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
討死
討死に

Etymology

Compound of 討ち (uchi, to attack, the 連用形(れんようけい) (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of the verb () (utsu)) + 死に (shini, to die, the 連用形(れんようけい) (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of the verb () (shinu)). The shini changes to jini as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ちじに [ùchíjíní] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɯ̟ᵝt͡ɕiʑiɲ̟i]

Noun

()() (uchijini) 

  1. death on the battlefield

Verb

()()する (uchijini suru) suru (stem ()() (uchijini shi), past ()()した (uchijini shita))

  1. to die on the battlefield

Conjugation

References

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