遺事

Chinese

		to lose; to leave behind	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (遺事)		遺	事
simp. (遗事)		遗	事

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yíshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ ㄕˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yíshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yíshìh
    • Wade–Giles: i²-shih⁴
    • Yale: yí-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yishyh
    • Palladius: иши (iši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

Noun

遺事

1. incidents of the past ages
2. deeds of those now dead

Japanese

Kanji in this term
遺	事
い Grade: 6	じ Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

Attested in Japanese from at least the 16th century. Presumably from Chinese.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) い​じ [íꜜjì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [iʑi]

Noun

遺(い)事(じ) • (iji) ^{←ゐじ (wizi)?}

1. matters conveyed from the past; historical events
   • 1974, Li Kihaku, Sangoku Iji no shigakuteki igi [Historical significance of Sangoku Iji], page 246:

     正(せい)史(し)としての三(さん)国(ごく)史(し)記(き)は伝(でん)記(き)体(たい)であるが、個(こ)人(じん)の著(ちょ)述(じゅつ)である三(さん)国(ごく)遺(い)事(じ)は、内(ない)容(よう)別(べつ)にその編(あみ)目(め)を分(わ)けて故(こ)事(じ)を記(き)述(じゅつ)している。

     Seishi to shite no Sangoku Shiki wa denki tai de aru ga, kojin no chojutsu de aru Sangoku Iji wa, naiyō betsu ni sono amime o wakete koji o kijutsu shiteiru.

     While the official history of Samguk Sagi [History of the Three Kingdoms] includes biographical accounts, the more personalized writing of Sangoku Iji [Incidents of the Three Kingdoms] describes historical events by dividing them into sections.

2. things left undone by people who have died
3. things left undone from a past project or plan

Further reading

• Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
• Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN