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侍

侍 (waiter, samurai, wait upon, serve)

  • JLPT N1
  • 8 strokes
  • Secondary (Jōyō)
  • Radical 人
  • #1939 most frequent

Human Activities · Fighting

Readings

On'yomi 音読み
ジシ
Kun'yomi 訓読み
さむらいはべ.る

Example words & Vocabulary

Example sentences 3

これは200年ねん前まえの侍さむらいの刀かたなだ

This samurai sword is from 200 years ago.

現代げんだいの日本にっぽんに忍者にんじゃや侍さむらいはいません。

Nowadays there are no ninjas or samurais in Japan.

『カムイの剣けん』は、1868年ねんの徳川とくがわ将軍しょうぐん時代じだいの崩壊ほうかいと、明治天皇めいじてんのう下かでの日本にっぽんの復興ふっこうという変革期へんかくきを舞台ぶたいにした、一種いっしゅの侍さむらい/忍者にんじゃ物語ものがたりだ。

Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.

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