Meaning
拍子 (ひょうし, hyoushi) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “beat; the moment”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
この 曲は 4 拍子です
This song is in quadruple time.
白拍子。
She was a shirabyoshi (traditional Japanese dancer).
(トメ拍子)。
(Tome-hyoshi [closing stamps]).
白拍子(遊女)。
She was a shirabyoshi (dancer prostitute).
松拍子・松拍とも。
Matsubayashi (
舌はただの拍子木だ。
The tongue is but a clapper.
全てとんとん 拍子に 進んだ。
Everything went smoothly.
2. 大根は 拍子木に 切る。
2. Cut the radishes into long sticks.
拍子と3拍子のリズム細胞を繋げる変拍子。
It is an irregular meter connecting the rhythmic cells of binary and triple measures.
政子は白拍子の名手である静に舞を所望し、渋る静を説得している。
Masako wished to see Shizuka perform the traditional Shirabyoushi dance, and Shizuka reluctantly did so.
管弦では只拍子(6拍子)で演奏される曲が舞楽になると夜多羅拍子(5拍子)となって変わってしまうものがいくつかある。
Some numbers played with the Tada-byoshi beat (sextuple measure) in Kangen music are changed to the Yatara-byoshi beat (quintuple measure) in Bugaku music.
とんとん拍子に運んだ. Everything went on swimmingly.高麗楽の拍子には4拍子、揚拍子、唐拍子の三種類がある。
Komagaku has three types of rhythms: Yon-byoshi (quadruple time), Age-byoshi (a faster tempo) and Kara-byoshi (a Chinese beat).