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技術
ぎじゅつ
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
technique, technology, skill
Gijutsu is first attested in Japanese in 1563, and was later repurposed as a calque of English mechanical art.
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In a sentence
誰もが彼の技術を認めた。
Everyone recognized his skill.
彼の仕事は技術に関する。
His work is in engineering.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “First attested in Japanese in 1563 with a sense of "technique; method or means by which something is handled or processed".”
- “Later repurposed as a calque of English mechanical art by Nishi Amane in the encyclopedia Hyakugaku Renkan.”
Source: Wiktionary: 技術 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Made in Japan
- Coined in Japan from foreign material (wasei-kango, wasei-eigo), not borrowed whole.
- Meaning shift
- The word's meaning moved away from where it started.