三猿
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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三 | 猿 |
さん Grade: 1 | えん Grade: S |
kan’on |
Pronunciation
- On’yomi: Kan’on
- (Tokyo) さんえん [sàń'éń] (Heiban – [0])
- IPA(key): [sã̠ɰ̃ẽ̞ɴ]
Noun
三猿 • (san'en) ←さんゑん (sanwen)?
- (collective) the three monkeys (the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" monkeys)
- Synonym: 見猿聞か猿言わ猿 (mizaru kikazaru iwazaru)
- Hyponyms: 見猿 (mizaru), 聞か猿 (kikazaru), 言わ猿 (iwazaru)
- 三猿主義
- san'en shugi
- the three-monkeys principle