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Meaning of 生粋 in Japanese
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生粋
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Kana Readingきっすい
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Romajikissui
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'
- Meaning
- pure; genuine; natural-born
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Examples of 生粋, きっすい in a sentence
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日本人離れしたこの美しい相貌からもわかるように、優奈は実は生粋の日本人じゃない。西洋人をおばあちゃんに持つ、クォーターだったりする。
As you can also tell from these beautiful, far from Japanese, looks, Yuna is not pure-blood Japanese. She's a quarter-blood with a westerner as grandmother.
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生粋のお嬢様だからな。残念ながら悪戯とかじゃなくてあれで素だ。
She's pure bred blue-blood you see. Unfortunately that's no sort of put-on but her natural self.
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He is a Parisian born and bred.
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He is an American to the backbone.
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He was born within the sound of the Bow bells.
Related Kanji
10 strokes
chic, style, purity, essence, pith, cream, elite, choice
On'Yomi: スイ
Kun'Yomi: いき
5 strokes
life, genuine, birth
On'Yomi: セイ, ショウ
Kun'Yomi: い.きる, い.かす, い.ける, う.まれる, うま.れる, う.まれ, うまれ, う.む, お.う, は.える, は.やす, き, なま, なま-, な.る, な.す, む.す, -う