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禁句きんく (kinku)

tabooed word

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禁句 (きんく, kinku) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “tabooed word”.

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その言葉ことばは禁句きんくです

That word is taboo.

彼に髪のことを話してはいけない.それは禁句だ.

Don't talk to him about his hair—it's a taboo subject.

ぼくはといえば、もはや化学の研究に目を向けなくなり、科学は我が家の禁句となった。

As for myself, I no longer care for chemical research, and science is a tabooed topic in my household.

これが大正9年(1920年)1月の「商社設立禁止宣言」であり、戦後、商社が開設されるまで、住友では商社開設が禁句になってしまった。

That was the 'Declaration of Prohibition on Establishing Trading Company' of January, 1920, and since then nobody had said about establishment of trading company as taboo until a actual trading company of Sumitomo was opened after the World War II.

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