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業突く張り (goutsukubari) Japanese meaning: stubbornness | Kotomora
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ど
言い
い
出だ
し
たら
絶ぜっ
対たい
に
曲ま
げ
ない
。
He is so stubborn that once he says something, he never backs down.
It's no use saying anything to that pigheaded person.
Kanji 業 business, vocation, arts 突 stab, protruding, thrust 張 counter for bows & stringed instruments, stretch, spread Related words 頑がん 固こ 頑固 is the standard word for stubbornness. 業突く張り is more emphatic and colloquial, often implying an unreasonable or pigheaded stubbornness.
けち けち is the common word for stingy or miserly. 業突く張り in the miser sense is rarer and more old-fashioned, carrying a stronger nuance of extreme tight-fistedness.
Written forms 業ごう 突つ く 張ば り
Most common kanji spelling for this word.
業ごう 突つく 張ば り
Variant spelling without the okurigana く.
強ごう 突つく 張ば り
Alternate kanji using 強; less common.
強ごう 突つ く 張ば り
Rare variant with 強 and okurigana く.
Etymology The exact derivation is uncertain. The word appears to combine 業 (ごう, 'karma' or 'strong-willed nature') with 突く張る (つくばる, 'to brace oneself' or 'to be obstinate'), suggesting someone who stubbornly sticks to their own ways.
