絶句 – Vocabulary details

絶ぜっ句く

Noun

Verb (する, intransitive)

1. being lost for words; becoming speechless

その言こと葉ばに、絶ぜっ句くさせられた。I was left speechless by those words.

2. jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

cut off

phrase

ぜ

っく

breaking off short (in one's speech); rendered speechless for a moment

poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters

poem of four lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters

その言こと葉ばに、絶ぜっ句くさせられた。

I was left speechless by those words.

私わたしは絶ぜっ句くするしかなかった。

I had no choice but to be speechless.

絶ぜっ句くしたのは私わたしだけじゃなかった。

I wasn't the only one who was speechless.

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