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狂気の沙汰 (きょうきのさた) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

狂きょう気きの沙さ汰た

Meanings

1

expression

crazy deed; act of sheer madness; the height of madness

colloquial

Colloquial expression used to describe an action or situation that is so extreme or irrational that it seems insane.

こんな計けい画かくを立たてるなんて狂きょう気きの沙さ汰ただ。
Making a plan like this is sheer madness.
彼かれが全ぜん財ざい産さんを賭かけるとは狂きょう気きの沙さ汰たとしか言いいようがない。
There's no way to describe him betting his entire fortune other than as an act of madness.

Written forms

狂きょう気きの沙さ汰た
Standard kanji spelling.
狂きょう気きのさた
Kana spelling of 沙汰; common in casual writing.

Kanji

狂lunatic, insane, crazy
気spirit, mind, air

沙sand

汰washing, sieving, filtering

Similar words

沙さ汰た
沙汰 alone means 'affair' or 'matter', often used in formal contexts like 裁判沙汰 (court case). 狂気の沙汰 is a fixed phrase meaning 'an insane affair'.
狂きょう気き
狂気 means 'madness' or 'insanity' as a noun. 狂気の沙汰 uses it attributively to describe an extreme deed.

Etymology

Compound of 狂気 (madness) + の (possessive particle) + 沙汰 (affair, matter). The phrase literally means 'an affair of madness' and is used idiomatically to express extreme irrationality.