形而上学

See also: 形而上學

Chinese

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Japanese
Kanji in this term
形 而 上 学
けい
Grade: 2		 じ
Jinmeiyō		 じょう
Grade: 1		 がく
Grade: 1
kan’on goon on’yomi
Alternative spelling
形而上學 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 形而上(けいじじょう) (keijijō, “metaphysical”) + がく (-gaku, “-logy; -graphy”).[1][2]

Coined by Japanese philosopher Inoue Tetsujirō in 1881 in his work 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Dictionary of Philosophy”) as a translation of English metaphysics, based on the phrase 形而上者謂之道，形而下者謂之器 in the Book of Changes (《易經》).[3][4]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) けーじじょ​ーがく [kèéjíjóꜜògàkù] (Nakadaka – [4])[2][5][6]
  • IPA(key): [ke̞ːʑiʑo̞ːɡa̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

形(けい)而(じ)上(じょう)学(がく) • (keijijōgaku) ←けいじじやうがく (keizizyaugaku)?

  1. (philosophy) metaphysics

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  4. Inoue, Tetsujirō (1881), “哲学字彙”, in National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics‎, University of Tokyo, page 54
  5. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  6. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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