See also: 預言 and 豫言

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
げん
Grade: 2
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
豫言 (kyūjitai)

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

()(げん) (yogen

  1. prophecy
    • 1998 August 4, 小中千昭, “DISTORTION Layer:05” (05:51 from the start), in 村田雅彦, director, w:ja:serial experiments lain, episode 5, spoken by 人形 (岡田ルミ), via TXNネットワーク:
      出来事というのは、まず最初に予言があるものよ。
      dekigoto toiu no wa, mazu saisho ni yogen ga aru mono yo.
      For every event, there is first a prophecy.
  2. prediction

Derived terms edit

Verb edit

()(げん)する (yogen surusuru (stem ()(げん) (yogen shi), past ()(げん)した (yogen shita))

  1. predict, foretell
  2. make a prophecy

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.