Results for the kanji 曰

曰

Informations

• Meanings
  say, reason, pretext, history, past, flat sun radical (no. 73)
• On'yomi
  エツ
• Kun'yomi
  いわ.く, のたま.う, のたま.わく, ここに

Sentences

1-3 of 3

• カール・マルクス曰く「あらゆる社会の歴史は階級闘争の歴史である」だそうです。
  Karl Marx says, "The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles."

• 私の友人に大学を卒業して立派な官吏となっておる者がある。ある時この人が私に曰うに、僕は学校に於て教ったことは何も役に立たなかった、しかし少しばかり学んだ哲学が僕に非常な利益を与えたと。
  I have one of my friends who graduated from university and became a fine public servant. Once he told me that what he had learned from school had been useless. However, what little philosophy he had learned proved to be of great benefit.

• うちの息子ね、ナメクジが大好きなの。彼曰く、ナメクジのねばねば、ぬるぬるが堪らないんだって。
  My son really likes slugs. He says they're sticky and slippery, and he finds that fascinating.