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へそ (heso)

navel, belly-button

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Meaning

臍 (へそ, heso) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “navel, belly-button”.

Example sentences 7

カエルにはへそがないんだ。

Frogs don't have belly buttons.

彼かれは臍ほぞを固かためて一世一代いっせいいちだいの大だい事業じぎょうに乗り出のりだした。

He resolved to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime enterprise.

蓮華座に本尊の臍を差し込んで安置されている。

The principal image is enshrined with its navel inserted into the lotus pedestal.

彼女かのじょは姑しゅうとめの気きにさわるようなことを言いわなければよかったと臍ほぞを噛かんだ。

She bitterly regretted having said something that displeased her mother-in-law.

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