落とし穴

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
落 穴
お
Grade: 3 		な
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
落穴
落し穴
臽 (rare)

Etymology

Compound of 落(お)とし (otoshi, “dropping, making something fall”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 落(お)とす (otosu, “to drop something, to make something fall”)) + 穴(あな) (ana, “hole”). Originally referred to a kind of trap.

First attested to the early 1200s.

Pronunciation

Noun

落(お)とし穴(あな) • (otoshiana) 

  1. a pit trap or snare
    Synonym: 落とし (otoshi)
  2. a hole in the top of a box or other container for dropping things in
  3. (figuratively) a deliberate ploy to deceive someone into a bad situation: a deliberate pitfall
    Synonyms: 策略 (sakuryaku), 謀略 (bōryaku)
  4. (figuratively) an unknown pitfall, a non-deliberate hidden risk

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “落穴”, in 日本国語大辞典 ‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ^ “落し穴”, in デジタル大辞泉 ‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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