杜撰

Chinese

Du (surname) compose; compile
trad. (杜撰)
simp. #(杜撰)
Literally: “written by Du (Mo)”.

Etymology

From the surname of an 11th century poet Du Mo, whose poetry works often do not conform to the metre patterns of classical Chinese poetry.

Pronunciation


Verb

杜撰

  1. to fabricate; to forge; to make up

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (杜撰):
  • Japanese: 杜撰(ずさん) (zusan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Jinmeiyō
さん
Jinmeiyō
goon kan'on

Etymology

/dusan//d͡zusaɴ//zusaɴ/

Borrowed from Chinese 杜撰 (dùzhuàn).

Also pronounced zuzan (with rendaku) in older texts.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

()(さん) • (zusanづさん (dusan)?-na (adnominal ()(さん) (zusan na), adverbial ()(さん) (zusan ni))

  1. sloppy, careless
    Synonyms: 粗漏 (sorō), でたらめ (detarame)
    • 2025 August 11 (last accessed), 泉健太 [Kenta Izumi], quotee, “第208回国会 衆議院 本会議 第32号 令和4年6月9日 [208th Diet, House of Representatives, Plenary Session No. 32, June 9, 2022]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎[1], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library]:
      しかし、その監査やフォローについては、ずさんな点が多く、多数の問題点が浮上をしています。
      Shikashi, sono kansa ya forō ni tsuite wa, zusan na ten ga ōku, tasū no mondaiten ga fujō o shite imasu.
      However, there are many sloppy aspects to the audits and follow-up, and numerous problems have emerged.

Inflection

Noun

()(さん) • (zusanづさん (dusan)?

  1. sloppiness, carelessness
  2. a piece of writing with either unreliable sources or many errors

Derived terms

  • 杜撰脱漏(ずさんだつろう) (zusandatsurō): careless (slipshod) and with many omissions

Verb

()(さん)する • (zusan suruづさん (dusan)?suru (stem ()(さん) (zusan shi), past ()(さん)した (zusan shita))

  1. to make sloppy errors

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Takebayashi, Shigeru (1993), The Kenkyusha Japanese-English Learner's Pocket Dictionary, Tōkyō: Kenkyūsha, →ISBN.