矛

Meaning

矛 centers on a long pole weapon with a blade: a halberd or pike. The arms sense extends from the weapon itself, and the festival float meaning likely comes from the use of such weapons as decorative or symbolic objects in processions.

• 矛盾むじゅん
  N2

  contradiction; inconsistency

• 矛ほこ

  long-handled Chinese spear; lance; pike

• 矛先ほこさき

  point of a spear; spearhead

• 前後矛盾ぜんごむじゅん

  self-contradiction; self-inconsistency

• 名辞矛盾めいじむじゅん

  contradiction in terms

• 天の瓊矛あまのぬほこ

  Ama no Nuhoko; the heavenly jeweled spear used by Izanagi and Izanami

• 形容矛盾けいようむじゅん

  contradictio in adjecto; contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies (wooden iron, hot ice, etc.)

• 撞着矛盾どうちゃくむじゅん

  self-contradiction

• 無矛盾性むむじゅんせい

  consistency (of an axiomatic system)

• 瓊矛ぬほこ

  jeweled spear (jewelled)

• 相矛盾あいむじゅん

  mutually contradictory

• 矛を交えるほこをまじえる

  to fight; to cross swords; to engage in battle; to cross spears

• 矛を収めるほこをおさめる

  to sheathe one's sword; to lay down arms; to bury the hatchet

• 矛偏ほこへん

  kanji "spear" radical at left

• 矛山車ほこだし

  parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears

• 矛杉ほこすぎ

  spear-shaped Japanese cedar

• 矛盾データむじゅんデータ

  inconsistent data

• 矛盾原理むじゅんげんり

  principle of contradiction; law of contradiction

• 矛盾律むじゅんりつ

  law of contradiction

• 矛盾性むじゅんせい

  contradiction; inconsistency

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