体現|たいげんtaigen[0]heiban (flat)
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- noun, suru verb, transitive verbpersonification; impersonation; embodiment
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 体現する(たいげんする) |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 体現します(たいげんします) |
| Negative (nai) | 体現しない(たいげんしない) |
| polite (masen) | 体現しません(たいげんしません) |
| classical zu / nu | 体現せず・体現せぬ(たいげんせず・たいげんせぬ) |
| Past (ta) | 体現した(たいげんした) |
| polite (mashita) | 体現しました(たいげんしました) |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 体現しなかった(たいげんしなかった) |
| polite (masen deshita) | 体現しませんでした(たいげんしませんでした) |
| Te form | 体現して(たいげんして) |
| Potential | 体現できる(たいげんできる) |
| Passive | 体現される(たいげんされる) |
| Causative | 体現させる(たいげんさせる) |
| Causative passive | 体現させられる(たいげんさせられる) |
| Conditional (ba) | 体現すれば(たいげんすれば) |
| tara | 体現したら(たいげんしたら) |
| Volitional | 体現しよう(たいげんしよう) |
| polite (mashou) | 体現しましょう(たいげんしましょう) |
| Imperative | 体現しろ(たいげんしろ) |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
- Synonym権化ごんげNeutralOriginally a Buddha's incarnation; now the extreme embodiment of a trait, as in 「悪の権化」. Where 体現 expresses an idea concretely, this stresses being the very symbol of it.
- Synonym具現ぐげんWrittenWritten word for realizing something concretely; it stresses bringing an ideal to fruition, while 体現 stresses embodying an idea.
- Synonym化身けしんNeutralIncarnation of a god or Buddha, and by extension a person or thing that concentrates a quality, as in 「正義の化身」; 体現 stresses expressing an idea concretely.
- Related現身げんしんWrittenWritten, religious term for the mortal body living in this world, or a Buddha's incarnate form; unlike 体現, it denotes the body, not the act of embodying.
- Related化現けげんWrittenWritten Buddhist term for a god or Buddha appearing in this world in changed form to save people; confined to religious contexts, unlike 体現.
- Antonym抽象ちゅうしょうNeutralAntonym: abstraction — drawing out common features into a general concept, the opposite of 体現's concrete embodiment.
Use 「体現」 to express an abstract idea in concrete form — people, works, and institutions all fit, as in 「理想を体現する」 or 「チームの精神を体現」. For realizing an ideal, choose 「具現」; for extreme symbols of a quality, 「権化」 or 「化身」. The antonym is 「抽象」.
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