仕置き場

Japanese
Kanji in this term
仕 置 場
し
Grade: 3		 お
Grade: 4		 ば
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compound of 仕置き (shioki, “execution, punishment”) +‎ 場 (ba, “place, ground”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

仕(し)置(お)き場(ば) • (shiokiba) 

  1. an execution ground, a place of death penalty

Idioms
  • 仕置(しお)き場(ば)の巾着切(きんちゃくき)り (shiokiba no kinchakukiri): “a cutpurse at an execution ground” → a metaphor that there are bad people no matter where you go, or used as a description of a person's character to state that they would continue bad behavior even to extremes

Synonyms

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (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
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