Japanese [edit]
Etymology [edit]
袋 (ふくろ, fukuro, “bag, sack”) + 小路 (こうじ, kōji, “lane”)
袋小路 (hiragana ふくろこうじ, romaji fukurokōji)
- blind alley, cul-de-sac, impasse, dead-end, dead-end street
Compounds [edit]
- 袋小路文 (fukurokōjibun): easily misunderstood sentence