Meaning of 片隅 in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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片隅, 片すみ
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Kana Readingかたすみ
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Romajikatasumi
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
- Meaning
- corner; nook
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Example Sentences
片隅, 片すみ, かたすみ used in context
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彼女はロマンティックになっていたので、人間はどこであれどこか片隅に住むべきところを見つけ、その周りに自分の全人生を整えていくべきだということを受け入れるような受動的な精神状態にまだ陥っていなかったのである。
Now Marina was a romantic, she had not yet fallen into that passive state of mind which accepts that one should find a corner to live, anywhere, and then arrange one's whole life around it.
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彼女はバスケットにかぶせてあるナプキンの片隅を持ち上げ、ちらっと僕に見せた。
She lifted one corner of the napkin which covered her basket and let me have a quick look.
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その学校は、中・高一貫校だということを頭の片隅にでも入れておいて下さい。
Bear in mind that that school is an integrated junior high and high school.
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ウサギでさえ、いじめられて片隅に追いつめられると、刃向かってくるだろう。
Even a rabbit, if badgered into a corner, will fight back.
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one-sided, leaf, sheet, right-side kata radical (no. 91)
On: ヘン
Kun: かた-, かた
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