人質
Japanese
kanjitab
Definitions
- a hostage
- (sort=ひとじち) indentureship, the state of being in servitude to another as collateral on or payment of a debt
Etymology
Compound from Japanese 人 (person, human, people, man, type of person, person from, -person, a person) + Japanese 質 (material, substance, matter, hock, forming noun to adjective, pawn, quality).
Origin
Japanese
質
Gloss
material, substance, matter, hock, forming noun to adjective, pawn, quality
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- イギリス人 Japanese
- エペソ人への手紙 Japanese
- グリーンランド人 Japanese
- 人 Japanese
- 人免疫不全ウイルス Japanese
- 人手 Japanese
- 人擬き Japanese
- 人獣共通感染症 Japanese
- 人見知り Japanese
- 人魚 Japanese
- 内国人 Japanese
- 南蛮人 Japanese
- 女の人 Japanese
- 巨人 Japanese
- 旅人 Japanese
- 旧人 Japanese
- 殺人 Japanese
- 灰白質 Japanese
- 煙霧質 Japanese
- 狩人 Japanese
- 白亜質 Japanese
- 白質 Japanese
- 相続人 Japanese
- 糖質 Japanese
- 聖人 Japanese
- 自然人 Japanese
- 英国人 Japanese
- 蛋白質 Japanese
- 質 Japanese
- 鄙 Japanese
- 高麗人 Japanese
- *pitə Proto-Japonic