いれずみ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
入れ墨
入墨
刺青
文身
黥 (rare)

Etymology

入(い)れ (ire, continuative form of 入(い)れる (ireru, “to put in”)) + 墨(すみ) (sumi, “ink”). The sumi changes to zumi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いれずみ [ìrézúmí] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA(key): [iɾe̞zɨᵝmʲi]

Noun

いれずみ • (irezumi) 

  1. a tattoo (an image made in the skin with ink and a needle)
    いれずみをする
    irezumi o suru
    to tattoo
  2. a punishment in which a criminals were given a tattoo as a mark of their criminal record

Derived terms

  • 入(い)れ墨(ずみ)者(もの) (irezumimono)

Verb

いれずみする • (irezumi suru) suru (stem いれずみし (irezumi suru shi), past いれずみした (irezumi suru shita))

  1. to tattoo
    • 1948, 野村胡堂, 銭形平次捕物控 怪盗系図‎, 青空文庫:
      身体(からだ)は華奢(きゃしゃ)な方(ほう)ですが、二(に)の腕(うで)に賽(さい)の目(め)の三(さん)が入墨(いれずみ)してあるところを見(み)ると、間違(まちが)いなく斑組六人男(まだらぐみろくにんおとこ)の一人(ひとり)でなければなりません。
      Karada wa kyasha na hō desu ga, ni no ude ni sai no me no san ga irezumi shite aru tokoro o miru to, machigai naku Madara-gumi rokunin otoko no hitori de nakereba narimasen.
      He is of slender build, but considering the fact that he has a three face of a die tattooed on his upper arm, he must be, without a doubt, one of the six men of the Madara ring.

Conjugation

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