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東ひがし - higashi
east
Definitions
| Japanese > English |
| 東 |
| 1. n. the east (gloss-lite, compass point) |
| 2. n. the Orient |
| 3. n. an easterly (gloss-lite, wind blowing from the east) |
| 4. n. (sumo) higher-ranked wrestlers listed on the right of a banzuke |
| 5. n. an Eastern Bloc country |
| 6. n. (regional historical) Kamakura and/or Edo, as opposed to Kyoto and Osaka |
| 7. n. (obsolete) the east |
| 8. n. (regional historical) during the (Kamakura period, Kamakura) and w, Muromachi period, Muromachi periods, the Kamakura region or its titular 幕府, as opposed to the imperial capital of Kyoto |
| 9. n. (regional historical) during the (Edo period), the region around Edo |
| 10. affix. east |
| 11. n. (mahjong) east wind (mahjong tile) |
| (hyper, ja, 風牌, tr=kazehai, fanpai) |
| 12. n. (mahjong) a 役 with a triplet or quad of east wind tiles; depending on wind round and player's seat wind, it is worth either 1 or 2 翻 |
| (hyper, ja, 役牌, tr=yakuhai, yaku-pai) |
Example Sentences
| その市はロンドンの東にある。 The city lies east of London. その町の東の方に古い城があった。 There was an old castle to the east of the town. 私はその通りを東に向かって走っているタクシーに乗っていた。 I was in a taxi driving east along the street. 村の東に接して湖がある。 There is a lake on the east of the village. 太陽と月は東から昇り、西に沈む。 The sun and the moon rise in the east and set in the west. |
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