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推鞠 (すいきく) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

推すい鞠きく

Meanings

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noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

criminal investigation (archaic)

archaic

Archaic term for interrogating or investigating a criminal, used in historical or legal contexts. Modern Japanese would use 取り調べ or 捜査.

江え戸ど時じ代だいの奉ぶ行ぎょう所しょでは、罪ざい人にんを推すい鞠きくする際さいに厳きびしい尋じん問もん

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In the magistrate's office of the Edo period, severe interrogation was conducted when investigating criminals.

Kanji

推conjecture, infer, guess
鞠ball
鞫investigate a crime

Similar words

取とり調しらべ
Modern standard term for criminal investigation or interrogation, replacing the archaic 推鞠.
捜そう査さ
General modern term for criminal investigation, broader than 推鞠.

Written forms

推すい鞠きく
Archaic kanji spelling for historical criminal investigation. 推鞫 is a variant form.
推すい鞫きく
Variant kanji spelling of 推鞠, also archaic.

Etymology

The term is composed of 推 (to infer, to deduce) and 鞠 (to interrogate, to examine), reflecting its historical use in legal contexts. The exact historical derivation is uncertain; it is a Sino-Japanese compound used in pre-modern legal terminology.