Japanese

Alternative forms

• 轢き逃げ

Noun

ひき逃げ ‎(hiragana ひきにげ, romaji hikinige)

1. a hit and run (the crime of causing an accident and leaving)
   • 2014 June 8, “ヤンゴン市内の交通規制を強化”, in Myanmar News (in Japanese):

     新 (あたら)しい規 (き)制 (せい)では、歩 (ほ)行 (こう)者 (しゃ)をはねたり轢 (ひ)き逃 (に)げをした者 (もの)は、バス運 (うん)転 (てん)手 (しゅ)として職 (しょく)を失 (うしな)うことになった。

     Atarashii kisei de wa, hokōsha o hane tari hikinige o shita mono wa, basu untenshu toshite shoku o ushinau koto ni natta.

     In the new regulations, a bus driver who hits a pedestrian or has a hit-and-run will lose the job.

   • 2015 August 23, Gosho Aoyama, “ＳＥＬＦＩＥセルフィー”, in 名探偵コナン [Legendary Detective Conan], volume 87 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, ISBN 978-4-09-126209-7:

     彼かの女じょの顔かおの横よこにあるでしょ？「恋こいのヒット＆エンドラン」って！ヒット＆エンドランは日にっ本ぽんだと野や球きゅう用よう語ごだけど、外がい国こくだと…
     轢ひき逃にげ…

     Kanojo no kao no yoko ni aru desho? 'Koi no Hitto endo Ran'tte! Hitto endo ran wa Nippon da to yakyū yōgo da kedo, gaikoku dato…
     Hikinige…

     Don't you see that one next to her face? "The Hit and Run of Love"! In Japan hit and run's just a baseball term, but elsewhere it also means…
     The crime of hit and run…

Verb

ひき逃げする ‎(hiragana ひきにげする, romaji hikinige suru)

1. to hit and run (hit someone with a vehicle then leave)

Conjugation

See also

• ヒットエンドラン ‎(hitto endo ran)