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Japanese
Etymology
一寸 (issun, “Japanese classical unit of length equivalent approximately 3.03 cm”) + 先 (saki, “ahead”) + は (ha, topic marker) + 闇 (yami, “dark”), literally ahead of a bit is dark.
Pronunciation
Proverb
一寸先は闇 • (issun saki wa yami)
- unpredictable; no one knows what the future holds.