黙殺

Japanese
Kanji in this term
黙 殺
もく
Grade: S		 さつ
Grade: 5
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
默殺 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) もくさつ [mòkúsátsú] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [mo̞kɯ̟̊ᵝsa̠t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

黙(もく)殺(さつ) • (mokusatsu) 

  1. ignoring someone's suggestion, opinion, or report.
  2. keeping a contemptuous silence

Usage notes
  • At the close of World War II, Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki chose the term to express Japan's reaction to the Potsdam Declaration's demand for Japan's unconditional surrender. It was translated to mean that Japan rejected the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, and later it was sometimes suggested that the Allies took his response to be more assertive than he putatively intended it to be.

Verb

黙(もく)殺(さつ)する • (mokusatsu suru) transitive suru (stem 黙(もく)殺(さつ)し (mokusatsu shi), past 黙(もく)殺(さつ)した (mokusatsu shita))

  1. to take no notice of
  2. to treat with silent contempt
  3. to shut one’s eyes
  4. to ignore
  5. to withhold comment
  6. to cut someone dead
  7. to withdraw from discussion, a common practice to take pause and reflect on what has been discussed and what the next steps should be

Conjugation
Conjugation of "黙殺する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 黙殺し もくさつし mokusatsu shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 黙殺し もくさつし mokusatsu shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 黙殺する もくさつする mokusatsu suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 黙殺する もくさつする mokusatsu suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 黙殺すれ もくさつすれ mokusatsu sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 黙殺せよ¹
黙殺しろ²		 もくさつせよ¹
もくさつしろ²		 mokusatsu seyo¹
mokusatsu shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 黙殺される もくさつされる mokusatsu sareru
Causative 黙殺させる
黙殺さす		 もくさつさせる
もくさつさす		 mokusatsu saseru
mokusatsu sasu
Potential 黙殺できる もくさつできる mokusatsu dekiru
Volitional 黙殺しよう もくさつしよう mokusatsu shiyō
Negative 黙殺しない もくさつしない mokusatsu shinai
Negative continuative 黙殺せず もくさつせず mokusatsu sezu
Formal 黙殺します もくさつします mokusatsu shimasu
Perfective 黙殺した もくさつした mokusatsu shita
Conjunctive 黙殺して もくさつして mokusatsu shite
Hypothetical conditional 黙殺すれば もくさつすれば mokusatsu sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

References
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
  1. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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