行方

Chinese
 
to go; to do; capable; all right; competent; OK; okay; to travel; temporary; to walk; will do; behavior; conduct; a row; profession; professional
 
square; quadrilateral; place; region; direction; side; method; way; prescription; power; upright; just
simp. and trad.
(行方)		 行 方

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 行方 (Namegata).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

行方

  1. (～市) Namegata (a city in Ibaraki, Japan)

Japanese
Kanji in this term
行 方
ゆ(く)
Grade: 2		 え
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Etymology 1

From Old Japanese. Compound of 行 (ゆ)く (yuku, “go”) + 方 (え) (e, “direction, location”).

Alternative forms
  • (ateji) 行衛

Pronunciation

Noun

行方 (hiragana ゆくえ, rōmaji yukue, historical hiragana ゆくへ)

  1. one's whereabouts
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 3, poem 264), text here
      物 (もの)乃 (の)部 (ふ)能 (の)八 (や)十 (そ)氏河 (うぢかは)乃 (の)阿 (あ)白 (しろ)木 (き)尓 (に)不 (＊)知 (＊)代 (＊)經 (＊)浪 (なみ)乃 (の)去 (ゆく)邊 (へ)白不 (しらず)母 (も) [Man'yōgana]
      もののふの八 (や)十 (そ)宇 (う)治 (ぢ)川 (がは)の網 (あ)代 (じろ)木 (ぎ)にいさよふ波 (なみ)のゆくへ知 (し)らずも [Modern spelling]
      mononofu no yaso Uji-gawa no ajirogi ni isayou nami no yukue shirazu mo
      like waves wandering through the pilings of the weir in Uji[,] river of the eight warrior clans[,] I know not where I go.[2]
    1205, Shin Kokin Wakashū (book 11 poem 1071; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 46)
    由 (ゆ)良 (ら)の門 (と)を渡 (わた)る舟人 (ふなびと)かぢを絶 (た)えゆくへも知 (し)らぬ恋 (こひ)の道 (みち)かな
    Yura-no-to o wataru funabito kaji-o tae yukue mo shiranu koi no michi kana
    Like a boatman who crosses Yura Strait not knowing where he goes after losing his oar, I am lost on the path of love.[3]
    1992, DALI, 「ムーンライト伝説」
    星 (せい)座 (ざ)の瞬 (またた)き数 (かぞ)え占 (うらな)う恋 (こい)の行 (ゆく)方 (え)同 (おな)じ地 (く)球 (に)に生 (う)まれたのミラクル・ロマンス
    seiza no matataki kazoe uranau koi no yukue onaji kuni ni umareta no mirakuru romansu
    (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. outcome
Derived terms
Idioms
  • 水 (みず)の流 (なが)れと人 (ひと)の行 (ゆく)方 (え) (mizu no nagare to hito no yukue)

Proper noun

行方 (hiragana ゆくえ, rōmaji Yukue, historical hiragana ゆくへ)

  1. a surname​.

Etymology 2

Various nanori readings.

Proper noun

行方 (hiragana いくかた, rōmaji Ikukata)

  1. a surname​.

行方 (hiragana ぎょうほう, rōmaji Gyōhō, historical hiragana ぎやうはう)

  1. a place name
  2. a surname​.

行方 (hiragana なみかた, rōmaji Namikata)

  1. a surname​.

行方 (hiragana なめかた, rōmaji Namekata)

  1. a place name
  2. a surname​.

行方 (hiragana なめがた, rōmaji Namegata)

  1. a place name, especially, name of a city in Ibaraki Prefecture
  2. a surname​.

行方 (hiragana ひじかた, rōmaji Hijikata, historical hiragana ひぢかた)

  1. a surname​.

行方 (hiragana ゆきかた, rōmaji Yukikata)

  1. a surname​.
  2. a unisex given name

行方 (hiragana ゆきがた, rōmaji Yukigata)

  1. a surname​.

行方 (hiragana ゆくがた, rōmaji Yukugata)

  1. a surname​.

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. Laurel Rasplica Rodd (2015) Shinkokinshū (2 vols): New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Brill's Japanese Studies Library), BRILL, →ISBN, page 674
  3. Janet Emily Goff (2014) Noh Drama and "The Tale of the Genji": The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays (Princeton Legacy Library), annotated edition, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 243
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