しかばね
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Etymology edit
Compound of 死 (shi, “death, dead”) + 尸, 屍 (kabane, “corpse, dead body”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Derived terms edit
- 尸冠 (shikabane kanmuri): the 尸 radical
Idioms edit
- 屍に鞭を打つ (shikabane ni muchi o utsu): “to beat a whip against a corpse” → to speak ill of the dead; also, general metaphor for something excessively cruel