覚醒剤
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | ||
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覚 | 醒 | 剤 |
かく Grade: 4 |
せい Grade: S |
ざい Grade: S |
on'yomi | kan'on | goon |
Alternative spellings |
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覺醒劑 (kyūjitai) 覚せい剤 |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 覚醒 (kakusei, “awakening”) + 剤 (-zai, “drug, medicine”).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]覚醒剤 • (kakuseizai)
- (broadly) a psychoactive drug that stimulates the nervous system, temporarily affecting mental or physical ability: a stimulant
- (more specifically) a stimulating drug in the amine family, such as amphetamine or methamphetamine
See also
[edit]- 麻薬 (mayaku)
- アンフェタミン (anfetamin)
- メタンフェタミン (metanfetamin)
- ヒロポン (Hiropon, “Philopon”, former brand name for methamphetamine, prior to it becoming legally restricted in 1951)
References
[edit]- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 覚 read as かく
- Japanese terms spelled with 醒 read as せい
- Japanese terms spelled with 剤 read as ざい
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese terms suffixed with 剤
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms with 3 kanji
- ja:Drugs