Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
しず
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
靜める (kyūjitai)
鎮める

Etymology edit

From (shizu, bound morpheme indicating “quietness” or “calmness”). Cognate with the shizu in 静か (shizuka, quiet; calm; still) and 沈む (shizumu, to sink; to set (such as the sun or moon); to become depressed).[1][2] This shizu might also be related to (shita, down; below).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

(しず)める (shizumeruしづめる (sidumeru)?transitive ichidan (stem (しず) (shizume), past (しず)めた (shizumeta))

Japanese verb pair
active 静める
mediopassive 静まる
  1. appease, calm, tranquilize, pacify

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN