過ち

Japanese

Kanji in this term
過
あやま Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Etymology

From 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 過(あやま)つ (ayamatsu, “to err, make a mistake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a̠ja̠ma̠t͡ɕi]
• (Tokyo) あやまち [àyámáꜜchì] (Nakadaka – [3])
• (Tokyo) あやまち [àyámáchí] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

過(あやま)ち • (ayamachi) 

1. fault, error, mistake
   • 2005 November 9, Nobuhiro Watsuki, “武(ブ)装(ソウ)錬(レン)金(キン)ファイナル [Armed Alchemy: The Final Act]”, in 武(ブ)装(ソウ)錬(レン)金(キン) [Armed Alchemy], volume 9, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

     あの時(とき)から…錬(れん)金(きん)術(じゅつ)の全(すべ)てを滅(めっ)せようとしてだが果(は)たせず…百(ひゃく)年(ねん)後(のち)の今(いま)目(め)覚(ざ)めてみれば再(ふたた)び…俺(おれ)の時(とき)と〝同(おな)じ過(あやま)ち〟を繰(く)り返(かえ)している

     Ano toki kara… renkinjutsu no subete o messeyō to shite da ga hatasezu… Hyakunennochi no ima mezamete mireba futatabi… ore no toki to〝onaji ayamachi〟o kurikaeshite iru

     Ever since that day… I had vowed to destroy everything alchemy-related, but I failed… Now that I’ve woken up after a hundred years, and what I find… is the same mistake of my time being repeated.

2. negligence
3. immorality between a man and a woman; adultery

References

• “過ち”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026