See 背水の陣 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "lzh",
"3": "背水陣"
},
"expansion": "Calque of Literary Chinese 背水陣 (bèishuǐzhèn)",
"name": "cal"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "背水陳"
},
"expansion": "背水陳",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "陳"
},
"expansion": "陳／陈 (chén)",
"name": "zh-l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "陣"
},
"expansion": "陣／阵 (zhèn)",
"name": "zh-l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "背水一戰"
},
"expansion": "背水一戰／背水一战 (bèishuǐ-yīzhàn)",
"name": "zh-l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of Literary Chinese 背水陣 (bèishuǐzhèn) (originally 背水陳, literally \"arrange the battle array with soldiers' back to the river\". 陳／陈 (chén) is an ancient variant of 陣／阵 (zhèn)), from the Records of the Grand Historian.\nCompare modern Chinese 背水一戰／背水一战 (bèishuǐ-yīzhàn).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "背水の陣 ^",
"ruby": [
[
"背",
"はい"
],
[
"水",
"すい"
],
[
"陣",
"じん"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "haisui no jin",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "faisuinodin",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "はいすいのぢん",
"roman": "faisuinodin",
"tags": [
"hiragana",
"historical"
]
},
{
"form": "背水之陣",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"kanji"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "idiom",
"2": "はいすい の じん",
"head": "背水の陣",
"hhira": "はいすいのぢん"
},
"expansion": "背(はい)水(すい)の陣(じん) • (haisui no jin) ^(←はいすいのぢん (faisuinodin)?)",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with 3 kanji",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "to burn one's boats",
"roman": "haisui no jin o shiku",
"ruby": [
[
"背水",
"はいすい"
],
[
"陣",
"じん"
],
[
"敷",
"し"
]
],
"translation": "to burn one's boats",
"word": "背水の陣を敷く"
}
],
"glosses": [
"burning one's boats; going for broke"
],
"id": "en-背水の陣-ja-phrase-0mAbZ4on",
"links": [
[
"burning one's boats",
"burn one's boats"
],
[
"going for broke",
"go for broke"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Records of the Grand Historian"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "はいすいのじん"
},
{
"ipa": "[ha̠isɨi no̞ d͡ʑĩɴ]"
}
],
"word": "背水の陣"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"english": "to burn one's boats",
"roman": "haisui no jin o shiku",
"ruby": [
[
"背水",
"はいすい"
],
[
"陣",
"じん"
],
[
"敷",
"し"
]
],
"translation": "to burn one's boats",
"word": "背水の陣を敷く"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "lzh",
"3": "背水陣"
},
"expansion": "Calque of Literary Chinese 背水陣 (bèishuǐzhèn)",
"name": "cal"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "背水陳"
},
"expansion": "背水陳",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "陳"
},
"expansion": "陳／陈 (chén)",
"name": "zh-l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "陣"
},
"expansion": "陣／阵 (zhèn)",
"name": "zh-l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "背水一戰"
},
"expansion": "背水一戰／背水一战 (bèishuǐ-yīzhàn)",
"name": "zh-l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of Literary Chinese 背水陣 (bèishuǐzhèn) (originally 背水陳, literally \"arrange the battle array with soldiers' back to the river\". 陳／陈 (chén) is an ancient variant of 陣／阵 (zhèn)), from the Records of the Grand Historian.\nCompare modern Chinese 背水一戰／背水一战 (bèishuǐ-yīzhàn).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "背水の陣 ^",
"ruby": [
[
"背",
"はい"
],
[
"水",
"すい"
],
[
"陣",
"じん"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "haisui no jin",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "faisuinodin",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "はいすいのぢん",
"roman": "faisuinodin",
"tags": [
"hiragana",
"historical"
]
},
{
"form": "背水之陣",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"kanji"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "idiom",
"2": "はいすい の じん",
"head": "背水の陣",
"hhira": "はいすいのぢん"
},
"expansion": "背(はい)水(すい)の陣(じん) • (haisui no jin) ^(←はいすいのぢん (faisuinodin)?)",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese idioms",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese terms calqued from Literary Chinese",
"Japanese terms derived from Literary Chinese",
"Japanese terms historically spelled with ぢ",
"Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
"Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with 水 read as すい",
"Japanese terms spelled with 背 read as はい",
"Japanese terms spelled with 陣 read as じん",
"Japanese terms with 3 kanji",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
"Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with multiple readings",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"burning one's boats; going for broke"
],
"links": [
[
"burning one's boats",
"burn one's boats"
],
[
"going for broke",
"go for broke"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Records of the Grand Historian"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "はいすいのじん"
},
{
"ipa": "[ha̠isɨi no̞ d͡ʑĩɴ]"
}
],
"word": "背水の陣"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 背水の陣 meaning in Japanese (3.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (e2469cc and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.