藻掻く

• 読み: もがく
• ローマ字: mogaku
• 漢字の分解: 藻 (mo/sō) — seaweed, aquatic plant; 掻 (ga/sō) — to scratch, claw
• 発音: /mo.ɡa.kɯ/

意味

To struggle; to writhe; to squirm. Describes desperate physical or emotional flailing.

A Group 1 (godan) intransitive verb. Often written in hiragana as もがく. Conveys frantic, often futile struggling — either physically (trapped, drowning) or figuratively (struggling with problems, trying desperately to escape a situation). Emphasises the desperate quality of the effort.

例文

1. 借金から逃れようともがいているが、なかなか解決しない。
2. 子供が嫌がってもがくので、注射が大変だった。
3. 夢の中で何かに追われてもがいていた。

使い方ガイド

場面: desperation, physical struggle, emotional turmoil

トーン: intense

起源と歴史

Possibly from 藻 (seaweed) and 掻く (to scratch/claw), evoking the image of thrashing in water tangled in seaweed. Often written in kana alone.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal