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.)