骨に刻み、肝に銘ずる

Japanese

Kanji in this term
骨	刻	肝	銘
ほね Grade: 6	きざ Grade: 6	きざ Grade: S	めい Grade: S
kun’yomi			on’yomi

Etymology

Calque of Literary Chinese 刻骨銘心. Literally "carved on one's bones and set in one's liver."

Idiom

骨(ほね)に刻(きざ)み、肝(きも)に銘(めい)ずる • (hone ni kizami, kimo ni meizuru)

To have one's resolve carved on the forehead.

References

The Kōjien (広辞苑) Dictionary of the Japanese Language, 5th edition, Iwanami Shoten Publishing, Tokyo.

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