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.
舌はただの拍子木だ。
The tongue is but a clapper.
とんとん拍子に運んだ.
Everything went on swimmingly.
２．大根は拍子木に切る。
2. Cut the daikon into long sticks.
全てとんとん拍子に進んだ。
Everything went smoothly.
縁談がとんとん拍子に運んだ.
Engagement and marriage went ahead like clockwork [without a hitch].
夜回りの鳴らす拍子木がかちかち鳴った.
Click‐clack went the night watchman's clappers.
足拍子の響きをよくするために要所に甕を生けている。
Earthenware pots are arranged at appropriate points to make the sounds of Ashibyoshi (beating time with one's foot) better.
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).
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.
丹後の伝承によると、忠房には白拍子花松との間との間に遺児がおり、平家滅亡を聞いた彼女は丹後に潜んでいたが源氏の捜索が及ぶのを恐れ、子供を道連れとみせかけて自ら岩から身投げをしたという話も残っている。
According to Tango Province legend, stories remain that Tadafusa had a child with a prostitute named Hanamatsu who hid in Tango upon hearing about the downfall of the Taira family, but she feared that she would be discovered by the Minamoto clan so threw herself from a rock, making it appear as if she had taken her child with her with her.