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表層形
きしょう
キショー
形容詞

きしょう (キショー)

Kishoi · きしょー — gross, disgusting, sickening

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きしょう in rōmaji: kishoi.

形容詞 一般 * *
📝 きしょい 🔤 形容詞 📐 連用形-ウ音便
Updated: 2026年9月29日
📖 Grammar Information
表層形 (Surface)
きしょう
見出し語 (Lemma)
きしょい
読み (Reading)
キショー
品詞 (POS)
形容詞・一般・*・*
活用型 (Conj. Type)
形容詞
活用形 (Conj. Form)
連用形-ウ音便
表記 (Orthography)
きしょう
読み・基本形
キショイ
表記・基本形
きしょい
見出し語の読み
キショイ
How it's used

Used in casual speech by younger speakers to express disgust or revulsion, often in reaction to something unappealing.

この食べ物、きしょうすぎる。
Kono tabemono, kishou sugiru.
This food is too gross.

きしょうな話を聞いて気分が悪い。
Kishou na hanashi o kiite kibun ga warui.
I feel sick hearing that disgusting story.

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Reading & Info
キショー
Lemma: きしょい
形容詞一般**
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⚡ 形容詞 (I-adjective) Inflections
丁寧形 (Polite)
きしょいです
否定形 (Negative)
きしょくない
過去形 (Past)
きしょかった
て形 (Te-form)
きしょくて
副詞形 (Adverbial)
きしょく
仮定形 (Conditional)
きしょければ
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形容詞 (i-adjectives) end in い and conjugate directly. They can act as predicates or modify nouns directly without a particle.
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What is the difference between surface form and lemma? ▼
The surface form (きしょう) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (きしょい) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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The reading shows the pronunciation in hiragana or katakana as recorded by UniDic. For kanji entries this is the standard reading of this specific surface form — which may differ from other readings of the same kanji.
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