Meaning
身寄り (みより, miyori) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “relation; relative”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
彼は 身寄りがない
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.
身寄りのない者に施しをしていたスダッタ(須達多)長者が、ジェータ(祇陀)太子が所有する森を譲り受けて建立した精舎。
A wealthy person Sudatta, who had given alms to those who had no kith or kin, bought a woods from Prince Jeta and built a monastery.
晩年は日本人共済会(現ニューヨーク日系人会)の設立、貧しく身寄りのない日本人のための墓地の購入、日本人信用組合の組織化など、同胞のための社会奉仕にも尽くした。
In his later years, he worked hard for the welfare of his fellow Japanese by founding the Japanese Mutual Aid Society (the present day Japanese American Association of New York), purchasing a graveyard for underprivileged Japanese with no relatives, and organizing the Japanese Credit Cooperative.
名称の意味は「祇陀(ジェータ)太子の森(Jetavana)」と、「身寄りのない者に施しをする(Anathapindada)」という言葉を並置した物であり、以下の由来による。
The name is composed of two elements, 'Jetavana' (a tree-clad land belonging to Prince Jeta) and 'Anathapindada' (to give charity to people with no relatives), and originates from the following episode.
インドのシュラーヴァスティーにスダッタ(須達多)という、身寄りのない者を憐れんで食事を給していたため、人々から「給孤独者(anathapindada)」と呼ばれていた富豪がいた。
There was a wealthy person named Sudatta in Sravasti, India, who was widely called 'Anathapindada' because he, out of a sense of pity, provided people without a family with food.
彼女は身寄りを頼って中国から帰って来た. She came back from China to Japan, expecting to be able to rely on her relatives.彼女は身寄りのない老人のために骨身を惜しまず働いてくれた. She worked as hard as she could [without sparing herself] for old people with no one to depend upon.また、身寄りの無い少女達を集めて忍びの術を仕込ませた。
He gathered girls who had no relatives and taught them the art of stealth (ninjutsu).