Meaning
比喩 (ひゆ, hiyu) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “metaphor; simile”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
先生は比喩を使って説明してくれた
The teacher explained by using a metaphor.
戦いはこれからだ.〈比喩的〉
The real struggle [battle] hasn't started yet.
その比喩的意味はもはや使われていない。
The figurative meaning is no longer in current use.
比喩的]彼女の顔は笑みで明るくなった.
Her face was illuminated by a smile.
その語句は比喩的な意味で用いられている.
That phrase is used in a figurative sense [figuratively].
〈比喩的〉西武の貯金はこれで13になった.
Seibu has got 13 more wins than losses.
この表現は日本語にはない英語の比喩表現として、私は大変気に入っています。
This expression has really caught my fancy, as a type of English metaphorical expression not in Japanese.
また一編、一編が簡潔で、一つの論旨を比喩や故事、時に外来語まで用いて説いている。
In each chapter, his writing was plain and concise, explaining a main topic using metaphors, events and figures in history, and even foreign words.
あまりに花は壊れやすくて、そしてとても奇麗なので、詩や比喩を使わなくても言葉に出来ません。
Flowers are so fragile and so beautiful, that you can't speak about them without poetry or metaphors.
比喩表現検索部は、比喩表現テンプレートと一致する文字列をテキストデータから検索して、比喩表現として取得する。
The metaphoric expression retrieval unit retrieves a character string matching the metaphoric expression template from text data and acquires the character string as a metaphoric expression.[
現代の日本で錬金術といえば、比喩的にしか使われない。モラルや羞恥心と無縁の政治屋や宗教家が、不正な手段でカネもうけをするときに。
In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.
当時の文学青年から崇拝され、代表作「小僧の神様」にかけて「比喩としての「神様」「神」一覧」に擬せられていたが、太宰治から長篇小説『津軽』の中で批判を受けて立腹し、座談会の席上で太宰を激しく攻撃した。
He was worshipped by the literary youth of the time and was called a "god of novels" after his representative work, "The Shopboy's God"; however, he was offended by Osamu DAZAI's criticism of him in DAZAI's full-length novel "Tsugaru," and attacked him viciously at a round-table discussion.