Yojijukugo From Demon Slayer You Can Use In Daily Conversations: When Four Kanji Make One Poem

ちは。Welcome to Sakura Neko’s Japanese Study Room, where you can learn Japanese from anime quotes! Today’s topic is Demon Slayer (鬼滅きめつの刃やいば / Kimetsu No Yaiba). I am sure many of you watched the Mugen Train movie and now are considering to get a Blue-Ray and DVD.

We will talk about 四字熟語よじじゅくご (yojijukugo), which are idioms made of four kanji characters.

You can often figure out the meaning of a yojijukugo by identifying individual kanji in it, but sometimes individual kanji meanings have not much to do with the idiom on a whole.

As you only have four characters to express what you want to say,四字熟語よじじゅくご idioms are quite creative and poetic.

Demon Slayer (鬼滅の刃 / Kimetsu No Yaiba) takes place in 大正たいしょう (Taishō) era (1912 to 1926) characters in the story use various old-fashioned expressions. In the whole story ofDemon Slayer (鬼滅の刃 / Kimetsu No Yaiba, there are about 50四字熟語よじじゅくご!

In today’s article, I will introduce you to 5 四字熟語よじじゅくご used inDemon Slayer (鬼滅の刃 / Kimetsu No Yaiba. If you use them next time you speak to a Japanese person, I am sure you can impress them.

生殺与奪せいさつよだつ – Power Over Life and Death

This is probably the most iconic phrase by 冨岡義勇とみおかぎゆう. 義勇ぎゆう used this 四字熟語よじじゅくご to 炭治郎たんじろう as he begs him not to kill 禰豆子ねずこ, who had just turned to 鬼.

生殺与奪せいさつよだつの権けんを他人たにんに握にぎらせるな！

Seisatsu yodatsu no ken o tanin ni nigiraseru na!

Don’t let others hold the power of life and death!

武運長久ぶうんちょうきゅう – Continued Luck In The Fortunes Of War

This 四字熟語よじじゅくご was used by 珠世たまよ as she farewells 炭治郎たんじろう and禰豆子ねずこ.

では、武運長久ぶうんちょうきゅうをいのります。

Dewa, buun choukyuu o inorimasu.

So, I pray for your continued luck in battles.

猪突猛進ちょとつもうしん – Rushing Recklessly

猪突猛進ちょとつもうしん is an expression derived from the behaviour of a boar, an animal that charges forward when angry. This is 伊之助いのすけ‘s favourite 四字熟語よじじゅくご.

猪突猛進ちょとつもうしん！猪突猛進ちょとつもうしん！

Chototsu moushin! Chototsu moushin!

Comin’ through!Comin’ through!

生々流転せいせいるてん – The Constant Birth, Growth, and Change Of All Things Under The Sun

InDemon Slayer (鬼滅の刃 / Kimetsu No Yaiba), 生々流転せいせいるてん is used as a name of the Tenth Form of Water Breathing. However, it is also an existing 四字熟語よじじゅくご expression.

水みずの呼吸こきゅう　拾ノ型じゅうのかた　生々流転せいせいるてん

mizu no kokyū jūnokata seisei ruten

Water Breathing Tenth Form: Constant Flux.

百世不磨ひゃくせいふま – The Perdurability of One Hundred Generations

岩柱いわばしら 悲鳴嶼行冥 ひめじまぎょうめい(Stone Hashira, Gyomei Himejima) used this 四字熟語よじじゅくご as he joins the battle against 上弦じょうげんの壱いち 黒死牟こくしぼう (the Upper Moon 1 Kokushibō).

我われら鬼殺隊きさつたいは百世不磨ひゃくせいふま。鬼おにをこの世よから屠ほふりさるまで。

Ware ra kisatsutai wa hyakusei fuma. Oni o kono yo kara hofurisaru made.

The Demon Slayer Corps will never disappear until we eradicate all demons from this world

まとめ – Summary

In summary, this article discussed 四字熟語よじじゅくご used inDemon Slayer (鬼滅きめつの刃やいば / Kimetsu No Yaiba). If you use in your conversations next time you talk to a Japanese person, I am sure you can impress them!

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