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Words — 3 found

Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
1. to eatMale term or language
  • おなかをすお腹を空かせた
  • その
  • おとこ
  • しょくもつ食物
  • むさぼり
  • 食った
The starving man devoured the food.
Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
2. to live; to make a living; to survive
Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
3. to bite; to sting (as insects do)
Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
4. to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of
Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
5. to encroach on; to eat into; to consume
Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
6. to defeat a superior; to threaten a position
Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
7. to consume time and-or resources
  • この
  • じぎょう事業
  • かね
  • 食う
This job eats money.
Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
8. to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)Colloquial
  • しゅじん主人
  • おおめだま大目玉
  • 食った
The boss bawled me out.
Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
9. to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first timeMale term or language, Vulgar expression or word
Other forms
喰う 【くう】啖う 【くう】
Notes
啖う: Out-dated kanji or kanji usage.
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Noun
1. empty air; sky
  • けいぼう警棒
  • くう
  • なぐりつけ
  • よろめいて
  • たいせい体勢
  • たてなおした
  • ガードマン
  • じぶん自分
  • 向かって
  • とっしん突進
  • して
  • くる
  • かなあみ金網
  • づくり
  • クズカゴ
  • 見た
The guard's truncheon hit air. Off balance, he regained his posture to see a metal-mesh rubbish bin flying towards him.
Noun
2. shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptinessBuddhism
Noun
3. air forceAbbreviation, See also 空軍
Noun, Na-adjective (keiyodoshi)
4. fruitlessness; meaninglessness
Noun, Na-adjective (keiyodoshi)
5. void (one of the five elements)See also 五大
Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
6. empty (e.g. set)Mathematics
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Kanji — 18 found

0.8004071098833194
10 strokes. JLPT N1. Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3.
Shinto shrine, constellations, palace, princess
Kun: みや
On: キュウ グウ クウ
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0.8840100323506962
8 strokes. JLPT N4. Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1.
empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum
On: クウ
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1.9076005961251863
9 strokes. JLPT N5. Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2.
eat, food
On: ショク ジキ
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2.7305441459779725
8 strokes. JLPT N3. Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6.
submit, offer, present, serve (meal), accompany
On: キョウ クウ
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Sentences — 59 found

  • jreibun/7338/4
    • まんび万引き
    • でつかまった男性は、店長に「煮て食うなり、焼いて食うなり好きにしろ」と言って、
    • ひらきなお開き直った
    A man who was caught shoplifting assumed a defiant attitude and told the store manager, “Boil me, roast me, or do whatever you want.” Jreibun
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