やくそく

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of やくそく – see the following entry.

【約束】 [noun] a promise [noun] an appointment or social engagement (the meeting itself) [noun] a convention; something that is conventional [noun] something that is preordained [noun] trope (something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature) [verb] to promise; to make a promise [verb] make an appointment or engagement [verb] be predestined, wait

(This term, やくそく (yakusoku), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)