縺れる

• 読み: もつれる
• ローマ字: motureru
• 漢字の分解: 縺 (motsu/ren) — to tangle, get entangled
• 発音: /mo.tsɯ.ɾe.ɾɯ/

意味

To get tangled; to become entangled; to get knotted up. Used for threads, hair, or figuratively for relationships and situations.

A Group 2 (ichidan) intransitive verb. Often written in hiragana as もつれる. Used literally for thread, yarn, or hair becoming tangled, and figuratively for situations, relationships, or speech becoming confused or complicated. 舌がもつれる means to stumble over one's words.

例文

1. イヤホンのコードがいつもカバンの中でもつれる。
2. 緊張して舌がもつれてしまい、うまく話せなかった。
3. 遺産相続をめぐって親族関係がもつれている。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, relationships, speech

トーン: descriptive

起源と歴史

From classical Japanese. The kanji 縺 contains the thread radical 糸, reflecting the original meaning of threads becoming entangled.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal