MAKNA IDIOM BAHASA JEPANG YANG MENGANDUNG UNSUR ANGKA 日本語における「数字」を含有する慣用句の意味

Abstract

ABSTRACT Wulan, Trias Ambar. 2018. “Makna Idiom Bahasa Jepang yang Mengandung Unsur Angka”. Thesis, Department of Japanese Language and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University. The Advisor: S.I Trahutami, S.S, M. Hum. The purposes of this study are to describe Japanese idioms that contain number, to explain the meaning of numerical symbol to Japanese people, and also to illustrate the positive and negative meanings contained in the idioms. The data are collected from Reikai Kanyouku Jiten, Shounen Shoujo Kotowaza Jiten,101 Japanese Idioms and internet sources. The method of this research is descriptive method. This analysis starts from mentioning and describing the Japanese lexical and idiomatical meanings that contain number element. Therefore, the writer describes the meaning of numerical symbols for Japanese people and determining the positive and negative meaning that are contained in the idioms. Informal method is used to present the result of data analysis. Based on this research, the conclusions are (1) Most of the Japanese idiom data that contain numbers can only be used for idiomatic meaning. (2) The idioms which the meanings can be traced from their lexical meaning have more numbers elements than the idioms which cannot be traced from their lexical meaning. (3) Japanese people's belief in numbers is not absolute, this can be seen from the data of idiom number 4 that has nothing to do with death, the idiom number 6 has nothing to do with something useless, idiom number 8 has nothing to do with prosperity, and the idiom number 9 has nothing to do with affliction. In addition, if we take a look from positive and negative meanings, not all odd number idioms have positive meaning either negative meaning. Keyword: meaning, idiom, number.