身寄り[みより] (miyori)

relation; relative

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身寄り (みより, miyori) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “relation; relative”.

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Example sentences 9

かれ身寄みよりがない

He doesn't have any close relatives.

その老人には頼る身寄りがない。

That old person doesn't have any relatives to depend on.

真女児は自分の夫をなくし身寄りのない境遇を打明け、豊雄に求婚した。

Manago tells him that she lost her husband and is alone now, then she proposes marriage to him.

身寄りのなくなった少女を、源氏は父兵部卿宮に先んじて自らの邸二条院に連れ帰る。

Ahead of her father, Hyobukyo no Miya, Genji took the girl, who had lost her relatives to depend on, to his residence, Nijoin.