癇癪持ち

Japanese

Kanji in this term
かん
Hyōgai
しゃく
Hyōgai

Grade: 3
on'yomi kun'yomi

Etymology

癇癪(かんしゃく) (kanshaku, temper, irritability) + () (mochi, having)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) んしゃくもち [kàńshákúꜜmòchì] (Nakadaka – [4])[1][2]
  • (Tokyo) んしゃくもち [kàńshákúmóchí] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [kã̠ɰ̃ɕa̠kɯ̟mo̞t͡ɕi]

Noun

(かん)(しゃく)() • (kanshakumochi

  1. someone with a hot temper
    • 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 34, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 下 先生と遺書 [Sensei's Testament]:
      その(ころ)(わたくし)はまだ癇癪持(かんしゃくも)でしたから、そう不真面目(ふまじめ)(わか)(おんな)から()(あつか)われると(はら)()ちました。
      Sono koro no watakushi wa mada kanshakumochi deshita kara, sō fumajime ni wakai onna kara toriatsukawareru to hara ga tachimashita.
      I still had a temper in those days, so being treated so unseriously by a young woman angered me.

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN