肩身が狭い
Japanese
edit| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 肩 | 身 | 狭 |
| かた Grade: S |
み Grade: 3 |
せま Grade: S |
| kun’yomi | ||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 肩身が狹い (kyūjitai) |
Pronunciation
editAdjective
edit肩身が狭い • (katami ga semai) -i (adverbial 肩身が狭く (katami ga semaku))
- feeling small, ashamed, unable to hold one's head high
Usage notes
edit- This phrase has a syntactical subject 肩身. Thus the semantic subject is usually indefinite or implied. Otherwise, the semantic subject can be introduced as an absolute topic with は/も, or as the possessor of the syntactical subject with の. Also, the subject marker が may be omitted, giving 肩身狭い, or when the phrase is used attributively, may be replaced by の, giving 肩身の狭い.
Antonyms
editReferences
edit- ^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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