葛藤
kattō
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inner conflict, conflict, friction, entanglement
/kattoː/
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A knot of opposing pulls, whether within a person, between people, or in religious thought.
Examples
意見の違いが葛藤に発展した。
Their disagreement grew into conflict.
禅の文献では葛藤が煩悩を指す。
In Zen texts, the term can refer to entangling desires.
父に本当のことを話すべきか葛藤した。
I struggled with whether to tell my father the truth.
その公案は葛藤として読まれてきた。
That koan has been read as a verbal entanglement.
二つの気持ちの葛藤を日記に書いた。
I wrote about my conflicting feelings in my diary.
Similar words
板挟み
対立
不和
軋轢
言句のもつれ
迷い
煩悩
確執
心のもつれ
Meanings
Examples
仕事を続けるか辞めるかで葛藤している。
I am torn between staying in my job and leaving.
彼女には義務と夢の間で葛藤があった。
She felt conflicted between duty and her dream.
父に本当のことを話すべきか葛藤した。
I struggled with whether to tell my father the truth.
二つの気持ちの葛藤を日記に書いた。
I wrote about my conflicting feelings in my diary.
決断するまで長い葛藤が続いた。
The inner struggle lasted until I made a decision.
Examples
親子の葛藤は何年も続いた。
The conflict between parent and child lasted for years.
両社の間に深い葛藤が生まれた。
Deep friction developed between the two companies.
意見の違いが葛藤に発展した。
Their disagreement grew into conflict.
彼らは葛藤を乗り越えて協力した。
They overcame their conflict and worked together.
地域住民と開発会社の葛藤を描く。
It portrays the conflict between residents and the developer.
Examples
禅の文献では葛藤が煩悩を指す。
In Zen texts, the term can refer to entangling desires.
僧は言葉の葛藤にとらわれないよう説いた。
The monk taught them not to be trapped in a tangle of words.
その公案は葛藤として読まれてきた。
That koan has been read as a verbal entanglement.
禅では問答そのものを葛藤と呼ぶことがある。
In Zen, even a question-and-answer exchange may be called an entanglement.
葛藤を断つという表現が教えに現れる。
The teaching speaks of cutting through entanglement.
Etymology
葛 and 藤 name twining vines; their tangled growth supplies the image for conflicts and religious entanglement.
FAQ
A knot of opposing pulls, whether within a person, between people, or in religious thought.
It is read かっとう, written kattō.
Ordinary use covers inner struggle and interpersonal conflict; the Buddhist sense belongs to specialist religious texts.
How is 葛藤 different from 迷い?
迷い is uncertainty about a choice; this stresses opposing pulls or an ongoing clash.
How does 葛藤 change in a sentence?
As a noun it takes particles, and 葛藤する is its verb form.
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