仕置き場

Japanese
Kanji in this term
仕 置 場
し
Grade: 3		 お
Grade: 4		 ば
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 仕置き (shioki, “execution, punishment”) +‎ 場 (ba, “place, ground”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

仕置き場 (hiragana しおきば, rōmaji shiokiba)

  1. an execution ground, a place of punishment

Idioms
  • 仕 (し)置 (お)き場 (ば)の巾着切 (きんちゃくき)り (shiokiba no kinchakukiri): “a cutpurse at an execution ground” → a metaphor that there are bad people no matter where you go, or used as a description of a person's character to state that they would continue bad behavior even to extremes

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References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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