満足

Japanese

Kanji in this term
満 足
まん
Grade: 4
そく > ぞく
Grade: 1
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
滿足 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ま​んぞく [máꜜǹzòkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mã̠nd͡zo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Adjective

満(まん)足(ぞく) • (manzoku) -na (adnominal 満(まん)足(ぞく)な (manzoku na), adverbial 満(まん)足(ぞく)に (manzoku ni))

  1. happy, satisfying, sufficient, competent
    • 2011, Barack Obama, 中東と北アフリカに関するバラク・オバマの演説, translation of "Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa":
      パレスティナの指導者(しどうしゃ)らは、その問(と)いに対(たい)する満足(まんぞく)な解答(かいとう)を出(だ)さねばならない。
      Paresutina no shidōsha-ra wa, sono toi ni taisuru manzoku na kaitō o dasaneba naranai.
      Palestinian leaders will have to provide a credible answer to that question.

Inflection

Noun

満(まん)足(ぞく) • (manzoku) 

  1. satisfaction; being satisfied

Antonyms

Derived terms

Verb

満(まん)足(ぞく)する • (manzoku suru) suru (stem 満(まん)足(ぞく)し (manzoku shi), past 満(まん)足(ぞく)した (manzoku shita))

  1. to be satisfied, to be content

Conjugation

References

  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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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