Words — 28 found
かごみずく
籠で水を汲む
1. to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon; to scoop water with a basketIdiomatic expression
いく
意を酌む
1. to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what someone feels (using one's intuition)
意をくむ 【いをくむ】、意を汲む 【いをくむ】
意を汲む: Irregular kanji usage.
きもく
気持ちを汲む
1. to consider others' feelings; to sympathize with someone's feelingsusu. 気持ちを汲んで
気持ちをくむ 【きもちをくむ】
くい
汲み入れる
1. to draw (water); to fill (with water)
2. to take into consideration
ながく
流れを汲む
1. to be descended from; to be drawn from (the tradition of); to be derived from; to follow the school (tradition) ofusu. as の～
流れをくむ 【ながれをくむ】
くわ
汲み分ける
1. to apportion drawn water; to ladle into separate containers
2. to show understanding
酌み分ける 【くみわける】
いちがながくたしょうえん
一河の流れを汲むも他生の縁
1. the events of today are destined by the past; even drawing water from the same river reveals a bond from a former life; even chance relationships can be attributed to the working of fateProverb, See also 一樹の陰一河の流れも他生の縁 いちじゅのかげいちがのながれもたしょうのえん