具体

See also: 具體

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 具体 – see 具體 (“specific; particular; concrete; exact”).
(This term, 具体, is the simplified form of 具體.)
Notes:

Japanese
Kanji in this term
具 体
ぐ
Grade: 3		 たい
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

Originally from Middle Chinese 具體 (gjuH thejX, literally “arrange + body”), used in Mencius's writings with a meaning close to the literal sense, the entirety is arranged, in order.[1]

Repurposed in the 1881 work 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Dictionary of Philosophy”) by Inoue Tetsujirō as a translation of the English term concrete, as opposed to abstract.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

具体 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 具體, hiragana ぐたい, rōmaji gutai)

  1. something concrete, tangible

Derived terms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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