黙殺
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 黙 | 殺 |
| もく Grade: S |
さつ Grade: 5 |
| on'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 默殺 (kyūjitai) |
Pronunciation
Noun
黙殺 • (mokusatsu)
- ignoring someone's suggestion, opinion, or report.
- keeping a contemptuous silence
Usage notes
- At the close of World War II, Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki chose the term to express Japan's reaction to the Potsdam Declaration's demand for Japan's unconditional surrender. It was translated to mean that Japan rejected the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, and later it was sometimes suggested that the Allies took his response to be more assertive than he putatively intended it to be.
Verb
黙殺する • (mokusatsu suru) transitive suru (stem 黙殺し (mokusatsu shi), past 黙殺した (mokusatsu shita))
- to take no notice of
- to treat with silent contempt
- to shut one’s eyes
- to ignore
- to withhold comment
- to cut someone dead
- to withdraw from discussion, a common practice to take pause and reflect on what has been discussed and what the next steps should be
Conjugation
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 黙殺し | もくさつし | mokusatsu shi |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 黙殺し | もくさつし | mokusatsu shi |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | 黙殺する | もくさつする | mokusatsu suru |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | 黙殺する | もくさつする | mokusatsu suru |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 黙殺すれ | もくさつすれ | mokusatsu sure |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | 黙殺せよ¹ 黙殺しろ² |
もくさつせよ¹ もくさつしろ² |
mokusatsu seyo¹ mokusatsu shiro² |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 黙殺される | もくさつされる | mokusatsu sareru |
| Causative | 黙殺させる 黙殺さす |
もくさつさせる もくさつさす |
mokusatsu saseru mokusatsu sasu |
| Potential | 黙殺できる | もくさつできる | mokusatsu dekiru |
| Volitional | 黙殺しよう | もくさつしよう | mokusatsu shiyō |
| Negative | 黙殺しない | もくさつしない | mokusatsu shinai |
| Negative continuative | 黙殺せず | もくさつせず | mokusatsu sezu |
| Formal | 黙殺します | もくさつします | mokusatsu shimasu |
| Perfective | 黙殺した | もくさつした | mokusatsu shita |
| Conjunctive | 黙殺して | もくさつして | mokusatsu shite |
| Hypothetical conditional | 黙殺すれば | もくさつすれば | mokusatsu sureba |
¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
References
- Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN
- ^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- “黙殺”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026