杜撰

Chinese

Du (surname) compose; compile
simp. and trad.
(杜撰)
Literally: “written by Du (Mo)”.

Etymology

From the name of a Song Dynasty poet Du Mo, whose poetry works often do not conform to the metre patterns of classical Chinese poetry.

Pronunciation


Verb

杜撰

  1. to fabricate; to forge; to make up

Synonyms


Japanese

Kanji in this term

Jinmeiyō
さん
Jinmeiyō
goon kan’on

Etymology

/dusan//d͡zusaɴ//zusaɴ/

Borrowed from Mandarin 杜撰 (dùzhuàn). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Also pronounced zuzan (with rendaku) in older texts.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjectival noun

杜撰 (-na inflection, hiragana ずさん, rōmaji zusan, historical hiragana づさん)

  1. sloppy, careless

Inflection

Noun

杜撰 (hiragana ずさん, rōmaji zusan, historical hiragana づさん)

  1. sloppiness, carelessness
  2. a piece of writing with either unreliable sources or many errors

Derived terms

Verb

杜撰する (hiragana ずさんする, rōmaji zusan suru, historical hiragana づさんする)

  1. to make sloppy errors

Inflection

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. Takebayashi, Shigeru (1993) The Kenkyusha Japanese-English Learner's Pocket Dictionary, Tōkyō: Kenkyūsha, →ISBN.
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