輸する

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
on’yomi

Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Chinese (MC syu|syuH). The kanji uses kan’yōon (yu).

The seemingly unrelated senses "to transport" and "to be inferior" may be due to being a semantic loan from Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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()する (yusurutransitive suru (stem () (yushi), past ()した (yushita))

  1. (rare) to transport; to deliver
  2. (rare) to be inferior to; to be surpassed

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN