敵前逃亡

Japanese
Kanji in this term
敵 前 逃 亡
てき
Grade: 6		 ぜん
Grade: 2		 とう
Grade: S		 ぼう
Grade: 6
kan’on goon kan’on

Etymology

Comprised of 敵前 (tekizen, “right in front of the enemy, in the face of the enemy”, literally “enemy + front”) + 逃亡 (tōbō, “running away and hiding”). First cited to 1985.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [te̞kʲizẽ̞n to̞ːbo̞ː]

Noun

敵(てき)前(ぜん)逃(とう)亡(ぼう) • (tekizen tōbō) 

  1. [from 1985] (military) desertion

References
  1. “敵前逃亡”, in 四字熟語を知る辞典 (Yoji Jukugo o Shiru Jiten, “Dictionary for Knowing about Four-Character Idioms”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2018, →ISBN
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