辞じ儀ぎ

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Freq.FrequencyTop 100,000

辞儀する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	辞じ儀ぎする	辞じ儀ぎしない
Polite	辞じ儀ぎします	辞じ儀ぎしません
Past polite	辞じ儀ぎしました	辞じ儀ぎしませんでした
Past	辞じ儀ぎした	辞じ儀ぎしなかった
Te-form	辞じ儀ぎして	辞じ儀ぎしないで
Desire	辞じ儀ぎしたい	辞じ儀ぎしたくない
Potential	辞じ儀ぎできる	辞じ儀ぎできない
Passive	辞じ儀ぎされる	辞じ儀ぎされない
Causative	辞じ儀ぎさせる	辞じ儀ぎさせない
Causative passive	辞じ儀ぎさせられる	辞じ儀ぎさせられない
Volitional	辞じ儀ぎしよう
Polite volitional	辞じ儀ぎしましょう
Imperative	辞じ儀ぎしろ	辞じ儀ぎするな
Conditional	辞じ儀ぎすれば	辞じ儀ぎしなければ
Tara conditional	辞じ儀ぎしたら	辞じ儀ぎしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

bow; bowing

Usually used in the polite form お辞儀 (おじぎ). Refers to the act of bowing as a greeting or gesture of respect.

Kanji

辞resign, word, term
儀ceremony, rule, affair
時time, hour
宜best regards, good

Politeness

お辞じ儀ぎN3
お辞儀 adds the honorific prefix お to 辞儀, making it the polite, everyday form used in conversation while 辞儀 alone sounds formal or literary.

Don't confuse with

仁じん義ぎ
辞儀 (a bow or polite gesture) sounds similar to 仁義 and is thought to be the origin of its underworld-greeting sense, but 辞儀 itself just means a physical bow.

Word family

お辞じ儀ぎN3
bow; bowing

Written forms

辞儀Usage61%
- じぎ
  Standard kanji spelling for bowing; also used for the obsolete declining sense.
- じんぎ
  out-dated reading
じぎUsage35%
Kana spelling is common, especially in the polite form おじぎ.
ジンギUsage3%
ジギUsage1%
辞宜
rarely-used kanji form
- じぎ
  Rarely used kanji form.
- じんぎ
  out-dated reading
時儀
rarely-used kanji form
- じぎ
  Rarely used kanji form.
- じんぎ
  out-dated reading
じんぎ
out-dated reading

Etymology

The kanji 辞 means 'word' or 'resign', and 儀 means 'ceremony' or 'formality'. The combination originally referred to formal polite behavior, including bowing and declining. The reading じぎ is the standard modern reading; じんぎ is an obsolete reading.