黙殺
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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黙 | 殺 |
もく Grade: S |
さつ Grade: 4 |
on’yomi |
Noun
黙殺 (hiragana もくさつ, rōmaji 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 mokusatsu 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 often suggested that the Allies took his response to be more assertive than he putatively intended it to be, the ostensible mistranslation thus contributing to the events that followed.
- The Japanese verb for withholding comment is mokusatsu(suru), which you could better understand culturally as, “We'll wait in silence until we can speak with wisdom.”
Verb
黙殺する (transitive, hiragana もくさつする, rōmaji mokusatsu suru)
- 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
Conjugation of "黙殺する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms | ||||
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Imperfective (未然形) | 黙殺し | もくさつし | mokusatsu shi | |
Continuative (連用形) | 黙殺し | もくさつし | mokusatsu shi | |
Terminal (終止形) | 黙殺する | もくさつする | mokusatsu suru | |
Attributive (連体形) | 黙殺する | もくさつする | mokusatsu suru | |
Hypothetical (仮定形) | 黙殺すれ | もくさつすれ | mokusatsu sure | |
Imperative (命令形) | 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
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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