Japanese edit

Alternative spellings
噤む
鉗む

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

つぐむ (tsugumutransitive godan (stem つぐみ (tsugumi), past つぐんだ (tsugunda))

  1. to keep silent, hold one's tongue

References edit

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998) NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN