Does 厶り have any meaning?

[franco87]

I Found 厶りに決まる But cant find any information on 厶り

 

[Mike Cash]

Did you mix katakana and hiragana on purpose?

Try looking for ムリ or むり instead.

 

[franco87]

I think its supposed to be a kanji

 

[Mike Cash]

I think its supposed to be a kanji

No, as I said, you have mixed katakana and hiragana. The kanji for that is 無理. Very different, don't you think?

Have you learned hiragana and katakana yet?

 

[franco87]

this is how its written in the passage. ム is a rare kanji and as the font is different from the katakana version im pretty sure its the kanji.

 

[Toritoribe]

A kanji 厶 indeed exists, but it's almost never used. If it's really used there, the writer intentionally use it instead of katakana ム as a kind of word play / slang, similar to a net slang ネ申[ねもうす] which is used to represent 神.

Isn't that 厶リ/無理に決まってる, BTW?

 

[Majestic]

ム is a rare kanji

So rare, in fact, that it hides itself from the internet.

Just kidding, I think someone is either toying with you, or the person who wrote it just put the first part as katakana for emphasis.

無理！ むり！ ムリ！ → ムり！

Edit: Haha, Toritoribe-san and I are playing leapfrog with each other.

 

[Morphling]

Does 厶り have any meaning?

ム the kanji has no む as reading. Only シ and ござ・る. Katakana ム comes from 牟.

It is likely it was a ime stuff up rather than anything else.

 

[Toritoribe]

The kanji is chosen just because the shape resembles katakana ム. It has nothing to do with the reading or meaning of the kanji. This is a word play mostly used in the net, similar to leet speak in English.

 

[Mike Cash]

The kanji is chosen just because the shape resembles katakana ム. It has nothing to do with the reading or meaning of the kanji. This is a word play mostly used in the net, similar to leet speak in English.

Only people with レろろて Japanese skillz will understand.

 

[nekojita]

Another suggestion - this is the sort of mistake OCR (optical character recognition) makes. If you try to do a search inside places like Google Books, or anywhere there's digitisation from printed text (older works where the original isn't digital, dodgy ebooks, etc), you'll see a lot of these kind of mistakes. It could just mean whatever you are reading wasn't proofread after OCR, or that it was missed because the person checking just skimmed it and presumed it was ム because 厶 would make no sense.

If that is the issue, you are likely to find similar problems throughout the text.

 

[Morphling]

I see bit like 口 ロ and 工 エ.

 

[Toritoribe]

Ah, yeah, OCR also can be a cause of the mistake.

 

[Mike Cash]

Does 厶り have any meaning?

I just encountered the kanji "in the wild" for the first time!



The text is from 1903.