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黙殺

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
もく
Grade: S
さつ
Grade: 5
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
默殺 (kyūjitai)
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Pronunciation

Noun

(もく)(さつ) (mokusatsu

  1. ignoring someone's suggestion, opinion, or report.
  2. keeping a contemptuous silence

Usage notes

  • At the close of World War II, Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki chose the term 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 sometimes suggested that the Allies took his response to be more assertive than he putatively intended it to be.

Verb

(もく)(さつ)する (mokusatsu surutransitive suru (stem (もく)(さつ) (mokusatsu shi), past (もく)(さつ)した (mokusatsu shita))

  1. to take no notice of
  2. to treat with silent contempt
  3. to shut one’s eyes
  4. to ignore
  5. to withhold comment
  6. to cut someone dead
  7. 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

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN