ハッと

Japanese

Adjective

ハッと or ハット • (hatto) -na (adnominal ハッとな (hatto na na), adverbial ハッとに (hatto ni ni))

  1. shocked, taken aback

Verb

ハッとする • (hatto suru) suru (stem ハッとし (hatto suru shi), past ハッとした (hatto suru shita))

  1. to be taken aback
    • 1997, Hatsume Sato, Omusubi no inori [Rice ball prayer], →ISBN:
      ハッとしたとたん、その聖(せい)句(く)は乳(にゅう)白(はく)色(しょく)の雲(くも)と共(とも)に消(き)えてゆきました。
      Hatto shita totan, sono seiku wa nyūhakushoku no kumo to tomo ni kiete yukimashita.
      Reading that scripture, I was momentarily taken aback, cleansed like a milky white cloud.
  2. to realize something suddenly
    • 1983, Tatsuo Hagiwara, Miko to Bukkyoshi [The shrine maiden and Buddhist history], →OCLC:
      熊(くま)野(の)家(いえ)の床(とこ)の間(ま)の前(まえ)でハッとしたのは、図(ず)の上(じょう)半(はん)に虹(にじ)のかけ橋(はし)式(しき)のものが堂(どう)にもそれが掲(かか)げてあった。
      Kumano ie no tokonoma no mae de hatto shita no wa, zu no jōhan ni niji no kakehashi shiki no mono ga dō ni mo sore ga kakagete-atta.
      What I suddenly realized there in the alcove of the Kumano house was that a magnificent bridge-like rainbow was printed in the upper half of the picture.

Conjugation

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