溝

• 読み: みぞ
• ローマ字: mizo
• 漢字の分解: 溝 (mizo/kou) — ditch, groove, gap
• 発音: /mi.zo/

意味

Ditch; drain; gutter; trench. Also figuratively, a gap or rift between people.

A noun with both physical and figurative meanings. Physically refers to narrow channels for water drainage along roads or in fields. Figuratively used to describe an emotional or ideological gap between people, as in 溝が深まる (the rift deepens) or 溝を埋める (to bridge the gap). The figurative usage is very common at N2 level.

例文

1. 道路の溝にはまって自転車のタイヤがパンクした。
2. 二人の間にはいつの間にか深い溝ができていた。
3. 世代間の溝を埋める努力が求められている。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, relationships, society, infrastructure

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From Old Japanese. The kanji 溝 combines 氵(water radical) with 冓 (a phonetic element). Originally referred to man-made water channels for irrigation and drainage, later extending to figurative gaps and divisions.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal