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敷居しきい (shikii)

threshold, doorsill

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Meaning

敷居 (しきい, shikii) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “threshold, doorsill”.

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Example sentences 9

その店みせは敷居しきいが高たかい

That shop is intimidating and hard to enter.

鳥とりが数すう羽わ窓まどの敷居しきいにとまった。

Some birds alighted on the window sill.

この家の敷居は二度とまたぐな.

Never show your face in this house again.

あんな敷居しきいが高たかい人ひと、相手あいてにしません。

I don't talk to anyone who's that status-conscious.

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