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片隅

片すみ

Reading

Kana: かたすみ
Romaji: katasumi
Kana
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Definition

1

corner; nook

Kanji

Readings: ヘン、 かた-、 かた
Meanings: one-sided, leaf, sheet, right-side kata radical (no. 91)
Readings: グウ、 すみ
Meanings: corner, nook

Example Sentences

ウサギでさえ、いじめられて片隅(かたすみ)()いつめられると、刃向(はむ)かってくるだろう。
➥Even a rabbit, if badgered into a corner, will fight back.
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彼女(かのじょ)はバスケットにかぶせてあるナプキンの片隅(かたすみ)()()げ、ちらっと(ぼく)()せた。
➥She lifted one corner of the napkin which covered her basket and let me have a quick look.
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その学校(がっこう)は、(なか)(こう)一貫校(いっかんこう)だということを(あたま)片隅(かたすみ)にでも()れておいて(くだ)さい。
➥Bear in mind that that school is an integrated junior high and high school.
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彼女(かのじょ)はロマンティックになっていたので、人間(にんげん)はどこであれどこか片隅(かたすみ)()むべきところを()つけ、その(まわ)りに自分(じぶん)(ぜん)人生(じんせい)(ととの)えていくべきだということを()()れるような受動的(じゅどうてき)精神(せいしん)状態(じょうたい)にまだ(おちい)っていなかったのである。
➥Now Marina was a romantic, she had not yet fallen into that passive state of mind which accepts that one should find a corner to live, anywhere, and then arrange one's whole life around it.
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