怒りを遷す

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
いか
Grade: S
うつ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Etymology

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Calque of Literary Chinese 遷怒 (qiānnù), from The Analects:[1]

顔回(がんかい)という(もの)()り。(がく)(この)めり、(いか)りを(うつ)さず(あやま)ちを(ふたた)びせざりき。
Gankai to iu mono ari. Gaku o konomeri, ikari o utsusazu, ayamachi o futatabi sezariki.
There was a person called Yan Hui. He loved to learn, did not transfer his anger, and he did not make the same mistake twice.

Equivalent to 怒り (ikari, anger) +‎ (o) +‎ 遷す (utsusu, to transfer).

Verb

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(いか)りを(うつ) (ikari o utsusuintransitive godan (stem (いか)りを(うつ) (ikari o utsushi), past (いか)りを(うつ)した (ikari o utsushita))

  1. (idiomatic) to lash out, vent one's anger on people who had nothing to do with the source of one's anger

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN