| Alternative spelling |
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| 社會(kyūjitai) |
FromMiddle Chinese社會 (MC dzyaeX hwajH, “publicgathering foroffering to thegod ofearth”), as a compound composed of社(dzyaeX,“god of earth;ceremony for offering to the god of earth”) +會(“gathering”). The word was repurposed byFukuchi Gen'ichirō in 1875 to translate the western concept ofsociety.[1]
社会• (shakai) ←しやくわい(syakwai)?
- society(group of people sharing culture)
- 社会問題
- shakai mondai
- social issue
- 1910,森鷗外,鴎外漁史とは誰ぞ:
- 人は社会を成す動物だ。
- Hito washakai o nasu dōbutsu da.
- Man is an animal that builds societies / Man is a social animal.
- aclass, aworld of a certain group
- 1904,河口慧海,チベット旅行記:
- これらは中等以下の社会の人に多い。
- Kore-ra wa chūtō ika noshakai no hito ni ōi.
- These are very common among people from the middle and lower classes.
- 1929,平林初之輔,昭和四年の文壇の概観:
- ちょうどそれは金融寡頭政治の社会とよく似ている。
- Chōdo sore wa kin'yū katōseiji noshakai to yoku nite iru.
- It looks exactly like a world of financial oligarchs.
- ^Shōgaku Tosho (1988),国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese),Tōkyō:Shogakukan,→ISBN
- ^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
- ^Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006),大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition,Tokyo:Sanseidō,→ISBN
- ^Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997),新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition,Tokyo:Sanseidō,→ISBN
