誓い

Japanese
Kanji in this term
誓
ちか
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 誓(ちか)う (chikau, “to swear, vow”).

Pronunciation

Noun

誓(ちか)い • (chikai) ←ちかひ (tikafi)?

  1. an oath, pledge
    • c. 1005, Shūi Wakashū (book 14, poem 870; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 38)
      忘(わす)らるる身(み)をば思(おも)はず誓(ちか)ひてし人(ひと)のいのちの惜(を)しくもあるかな
      wasuraruru mi o ba omowazu chikaite shi hito no inochi no oshiku mo aru kana
      It does not matter that I am now forgotten, but making an oath is the most precious moment in the whole life of a man.[3]
  2. (Shinto, Buddhism) vow that the Buddha pledged to save sentient beings (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 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
  3. Fujiwara no Sadaie, Tom Galt (2014) The Little Treasury of One Hundred People, One Poem Each (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation), Princeton University Press, →ISBN
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