仮託

Japanese

Kanji in this term
仮 託
か
Grade: 5
たく
Grade: S
kan’on on’yomi
Alternative spellings
假託 (kyūjitai)
仮托

Etymology

From Chinese 假託. Based on the use of kan'on readings, likely from Middle Chinese. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) かたく [kàtákú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠ta̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

仮(か)託(たく) • (kataku) 

  1. excuse, pretext, pretense, plea
    Synonyms: 託け (kakotsuke), 藉口 (shakō); see also Thesaurus:口実
    それは仮(か)託(たく)だけだろ?
    Sore wa kataku dake daro?
    That's just a prextext, isn't it?

Verb

仮(か)託(たく)する • (kataku suru) suru (stem 仮(か)託(たく)し (kataku shi), past 仮(か)託(たく)した (kataku shita))

  1. to make a pretext, excuse, or plea of
    Synonyms: 託ける (kakotsukeru), 藉口 する (shakō suru)
    病(びょう)気(き)に仮(か)託(たく)してズル休(やす)みしたんだよ。
    Byōki ni kataku shite zuruyasumi shitanda yo.
    He used illness as an excuse to play truant.
    • 1960, 芝木好子, 湯葉:
      芝(しば)居(い)を観(み)る者(もの)のすべては、そうして舞(ぶ)台(たい)の世(せ)界(かい)に己(おの)れを仮(か)託(たく)している…
      Shibai o miru mono no subete wa, sō shite butai no sekai ni onore o kataku shiteiru…
      (please add an English translation of this example)

Conjugation

References

  1. 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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