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口を利く;口をきく
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(口をきく)(口を利く)(口)(をき)(を)(利く)(利)(きく)
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Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
口 see styles |
kǒu kou3 k`ou kou kuchi くち |
mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls (1) mouth; (2) opening; hole; gap; orifice; (3) mouth (of a bottle); spout; nozzle; mouthpiece; (4) gate; door; entrance; exit; (5) (See 口を利く・1) speaking; speech; talk (i.e. gossip); (6) (See 口に合う) taste; palate; (7) mouth (to feed); (8) (See 働き口) opening (i.e. vacancy); available position; (9) (See 口がかかる・1) invitation; summons; (10) kind; sort; type; (11) opening (i.e. beginning); (suf,ctr) (12) counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), stove burners, and swords; (surname) Hamanoguchi mukha, the mouth, especially as the organ of speech. 身, 口, 意 are the three media of corruption, body or deed , mouth or word, and mind or thought. |
口をきく see styles |
kuchiokiku くちをきく |
(exp,v5k) (1) to speak; to utter; (2) to mediate |
口を利く see styles |
kuchiokiku くちをきく |
(exp,v5k) (1) to speak; to utter; (2) to mediate |
を see styles |
o を |
(particle) (1) indicates direct object of action; (particle) (2) indicates subject of causative expression; (particle) (3) indicates an area traversed; (particle) (4) indicates time (period) over which action takes place; (particle) (5) indicates point of departure or separation of action; (particle) (6) (See が・1) indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc. |
をき see styles |
ogi ヲギ |
(given name) Ogi; Wogi |
利 see styles |
lì li4 li ri り |
sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit advantage; benefit; profit; interest; (surname) Ri paṭu, tīkṣṇa; sharp, keen, clever; profitable, beneficial; gain, advantage; interest. |
利く see styles |
kiku きく |
(v5k,vi) (1) to be effective; to show effect; (2) to do its work; to carry out its function well; (3) to be possible to use |
きく see styles |
gigu ギグ |
gig; (personal name) Gig |
Information about this dictionary:
Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.
A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.
Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House
This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's
license.
Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).
Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.
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