First opened Thursday, July 19, 2012
躾
しつけ
- flat (heiban)
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).
discipline, training
Shitsuke is a nominalization of 仕付け (shitsuke, literally “training”), the stem of 仕付ける (shitsukeru).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 躾
In a sentence
男の子へのしつけは可能である。
Boys can be trained to behave.
その子供はしつけがまったくなっていなかった。
The child was completely lacking in discipline.
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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.
- “Nominalization of 仕付け (shitsuke, literally “training”), the 連用形 (ren’yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 仕付ける (shitsukeru, “to train → discipline”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 躾 (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
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.
- Sound change
- The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.