Meaning
和語 (わご, wago) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “native Japanese word”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
日本で 生まれた 言葉を 和語といいます。
Native Japanese words are called "wago."
なお「将軍」の和語での訓は「いくさのかみ」である。
It must be noted here that the native Japanese reading for
和語では「ひつぎのみこのみめ(日嗣の御子の御女)」という。
In Wago (words of Japanese origin), they were called 'Hitsuginomikonomime'.
和琴' (Wagon).和語(大和言葉)に漢語、仏語を交えて書かれており、簡潔でありながら劇的な表現に富む。
It is written in a mix of wago (Yamato kotoba, native Japanese words) with kango (words of Chinese origin) and Buddhist terms, and is full of simple but dramatic expressions.
なお“枉死”は、『後漢書』天文志下などにも、その用法があり、和語で言われる「横様の死」は、横死の訓読語になる。
Also, "oshi" (
中世には現在の日本語の書き言葉の原型となる和漢混淆文が成立し、日本語は漢語と和語を織り交ぜた自在な表現力を得た。
In medieval times, a mixture of Japanese and Chinese writing, which became the basis of today's written Japanese language, was established, giving Japanese flexible powers of expression with its mix of kango (words of Chinese origin) and Wago (words of Japanese origin).
また、和語通音を絶賛していた本居宣長からは、垂加神道に基づく古典の解釈がこじつけが多く非学問的だと批判されている。
In addition, Norinaga MOTOORI, who gave wago tsuon the highest praise, criticized that his theories were not academic, because there were a lot of strained interpretations about classics based on Suika Shinto.
このように、元来、和語(大和言葉)の「こと」という言葉は、現在の和琴の元となった弥生時代以来の「こと」から発している。
Thus the word 'koto' belonging to Wago (the ancient or primordial Japanese language) was originally derived from the 'Koto,' which had existed since the Yayoi period, becoming the prototype of '
日本文化を特徴的に示す概念として、「和(わ)」という言葉がしばしば用いられる(例:和語、和文、和歌、和服、和食、和風旅館など)。
As a concept distinctively indicating the Japanese culture, the term 'Wa' is often used (e.g. Wago (words of Japanese origin), Wabun (Japanese text), Waka (a traditional Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables), Wafuku (traditional Japanese clothes), Washoku (Japanese food), Wafu-ryokan (Japanese hotel), etc.).
将軍 is "ikusa-no-kami."『和語灯録』に「罪をば十悪五逆の者、尚、生まると信じて、小罪をも犯さじと思ふべし」とあるのは、これを示している。
His viewpoint is shown in his writing in "Wagotoroku" that 'those who have done ten evil things and five grave offenses should try not to commit any more crimes, hoping they can be reborn."
枉死, unnatural death) is used in Tenmonshige (astronomical reports in China) in "Gokanjo" (History of the Later Han Dynasty), and so on, while 'yokosama no shi' (横様の死, unnatural death) used as Wago (words of Japanese origin) corresponds to oshi (横死) when it is read in the 'kun' or Japanese reading.一方、和語「かんざし」はそもそも「髪挿し」に由来するとされ、上古の人々が神を招く際に頭に飾る草花が起源であったという。
Meanwhile, in the Japanese language 'kanzashi' was derived from 'kamisashi' (hair insert) and its origin is believed to be flowering plants by which people of ancient times decorated their heads when they invited the deities.