絡繰り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
絡	繰
から Grade: S	く Grade: S
kun’yomi

Noun

絡繰り (hiragana からくり, rōmaji karakuri)

mechanism
trick
Short for 絡繰り人形 (karakuri ningyō).
- 2005 December 7, Sorachi, Hideaki, “第だい八十一訓くん　扇せん風ぷう機きつけっぱなしで寝ねちゃうとお腹おかこわしちゃうから気きを付つけて [Lesson 81: Be Careful When Sleeping with the Fan on or You’ll Get a Stomachache]”, in 銀ぎん魂たま [Silver Soul], volume 15 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
  
  アレは　人 (じん)心 (しん)をまどわす悪 (あく)魔 (ま)の機械 (からくり)だよ　人 (ひと)が手 (て)を出 (だ)していい代 (しろ)物 (もの)じゃないんだ
  Are wa jinshin o madowasu Akuma no karakuri da yo Hito ga te o dashite ii shiromono ja nain da
  That thing is the contraption of the Devil that allures the human heart. It’s not something for mortals to meddle with.

Derived terms

絡繰 (からく)り時 (ど)計 (けい) (karakuridokei, “marionette clock”)

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