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曰いわく
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Meanings
Noun
1. pretext; history; past; story
Adverb
2. according to ...; ... says
Other spellings
いわく
Kanji used
曰sayeth
Pitch accent
いわく
Used in vocabulary
曰いわく付つき
with an interesting history (story); with a shady history; with circumstances that are difficult to explain
No-adjective
子し曰いわく
the Master said ...; Confucius said ...
Expression
Examples3
He-heh... there's a tale behind that, for that place.
Some wise man has said life consists of one disappointment after another.
Karl Marx says, "The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles."