社会

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See also: 社會

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see 社會 (“society; community; class; etc.”).
(This term is the simplified form of 社會).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しゃ
Grade: 2
かい
Grade: 2
kan’on
Alternative spelling
社會 (kyūjitai)
 社会 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 社會 (MC dzyaeX hwajH, “public gathering for offering to the god of earth”), as a compound composed of (d͡ʑiaX, god of earth; ceremony for offering to the god of earth) + (gathering). The word was repurposed by Fukuchi Gen'ichirō in 1875 to translate the western concept of society.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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  1. society (group of people sharing culture)
    • 1910, (deprecated template usage) 森鷗外, 鴎外漁史とは誰ぞ:
      (ひと)社会(しゃかい)()動物(どうぶつ)だ。
      Hito wa shakai o nasu dōbutsu da.
      Man is an animal that builds societies / Man is a social animal.
  2. a class, a world of a certain group
    • 1904, (deprecated template usage) 河口慧海, チベット旅行記:
      これらは中等以下(ちゅうとういか)社会(しゃかい)(ひと)(おお)い。
      Kore-ra wa chūtō ika no shakai no hito ni ōi.
      These are very common among people from the middle and lower classes.
    • 1929, (deprecated template usage) 平林初之輔, 昭和四年の文壇の概観:
      ちょうどそれは金融寡頭政治(きんゆうかとうせいじ)社会(しゃかい)とよく()ている。
      Chōdo sore wa kin'yū katōseiji no shakai to yoku nite iru.
      It looks exactly like a world of financial oligarchs.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Descendants

  • Chinese: 社會社会 (shèhuì)
  • Korean: 사회 (sahoe)
  • Vietnamese: xã hội

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN