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This makes me wonder, does Japanese have an equivalent to the Chinese concept of a chengyu?
by myrloc 4y ago
This makes me wonder, does Japanese have an equivalent to the Chinese concept of a chengyu?
- justusw 4y agoSo many are taken over verbatim from Chinese. There are some very comprehensive Yojijukugo (literally just meaning former character compound word) collections on the net like https://yoji-jukugo.com/ https://yoji-jukugo.com/ Sometimes you will have to map between simplified Chinese characters and modern Japanese characters. Easy enough though, since they still look very similar.
- GolDDranks 4y agoJapanese has 熟語 jukugo, which is similar (if I understand the concept of a chengyu correctly): a set phrase of Chinese characters. The famous case are the 4 character set phrases, 四字熟語 yojijukugo, which are mentioned in the article, but there are other kinds too. Besides that, there is 慣用句 kanyouku, which means just an idiom in general, and isn't restricted to kanji expressions. And 決まり文句 kimarimonku, which means something like a "cliche phrase".