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 約束の地 on Japanese Wikipedia
Kanji in this term
やく
Grade: 4
そく
Grade: 4

Grade: 2
goon kan'on

Etymology

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約束 (yakusoku, promise) +‎ (no, attributive particle) +‎ (chi, land)

Proper noun

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(やく)(そく)() (Yakusoku no Chi

  1. (Judaism, Christianity) the Promised Land
    • 1999 September 16, Motohiro Katou, “ヤコブの(かい)(だん) [Jacob’s Stairway]”, in Q.E.D. (しょう)(めい)(しゅう)(りょう) [Q.E.D. Quod Erat Demonstrandum], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 184:
      ヤコブは(かみ)(こと)()()け「(やく)(そく)()」を(さが)して(たび)()った ()(ぶん)(たち)を (はん)(えい)させる()()を‥‥
      Yakobu wa Kami no kotoba o uke “Yakusoku no Chi” o sagashite tabidatta jibuntachi o han'ei saseru tochi o‥‥
      Jacob took God’s words and set out in search of the “Promised Land”, of themselves, of fertile soil‥‥