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生粋

Reading

Kana: きっすい
Romaji: kissui
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Definition

1

pure; genuine; natural-born

Kanji

Readings: セイ、 ショウ、 い.きる、 い.かす、 い.ける、 う.まれる、 うま.れる、 う.まれ、 うまれ、 う.む、 お.う、 は.える、 は.やす、 き、 なま、 なま-、 な.る、 な.す、 む.す、 -う
Meanings: life, genuine, birth
Readings: スイ、 いき
Meanings: chic, style, purity, essence, pith, cream, elite, choice

Example Sentences

(かれ)生粋(きっすい)のパリっ()です。
➥He is a Parisian born and bred.
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(かれ)はきっすいのロンドン()です。
➥He was born within the sound of the Bow bells.
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日本人離(にっぽんじんばな)れしたこの(うつく)しい相貌(そうぼう)からもわかるように、優奈(ゆうな)(じつ)生粋(きっすい)日本人(にっぽんじん)じゃない。西洋人(せいようじん)をおばあちゃんに()つ、クォーターだったりする。
➥As you can also tell from these beautiful, far from Japanese, looks, Yuna is not pure-blood Japanese. She's a quarter-blood with a westerner as grandmother.
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(かれ)生粋(きっすい)のアメリカ(じん)だ。
➥He is an American to the backbone.
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生粋(きっすい)のお嬢様(じょうさま)だからな。残念(ざんねん)ながら悪戯(いたずら)とかじゃなくてあれで(もと)だ。
➥She's pure bred blue-blood you see. Unfortunately that's no sort of put-on but her natural self.
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