埋没

• ピンイン: mái mò
• 漢字の分解: 埋 = 土 (earth) + 里 (inside); 没 = 水 (water) + 殳 (tool/strike) — to sink and submerge

意味

（才能などを）埋もれさせる

In figurative use, 埋没 carries a sense of injustice — a talented person being overlooked, a good idea unrecognised, or an achievement forgotten. Common in career development, historical assessment, and social criticism.

例文

1. 大量优秀人才因体制原因被埋没，未能在最适合自己的岗位上发挥出应有的价值。
2. 这批历史档案若不加以整理和数字化，迟早会因年久失修而彻底被埋没于历史尘埃之中。
3. 她不甘心让自己的才华就此埋没，毅然辞去稳定的工作，转而追求梦想中的艺术事业。

使い方ガイド

場面: talent management, history, social criticism, career

トーン: critical

正しい言い方

• 真正的教育体系应当善于发掘每位学生的独特潜能，而不是以统一标准埋没那些不符合主流评价体系的非凡才华。(A truly good education system should excel at uncovering each student's unique potential, rather than using uniform standards to bury talents that do not conform to mainstream evaluation criteria.)
• 历史上不乏才华长期被埋没的艺术家，他们的价值往往要到身后才得到社会的广泛认可。(History is full of artists whose talents were long overlooked; their value was often only widely recognised by society after their deaths.)

避ける言い方

• 用埋没描述物理掩埋而不加语境说明 — while 埋没 can be used literally (buried under sand or rubble), its most powerful usage is figurative (talent or contributions being overlooked); purely literal use in literary contexts may confuse readers

起源と歴史

埋 (to bury) + 没 (to submerge/disappear) — to be buried and lost from sight

文化的背景

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal