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1. shallow knowledge; superficial learningoft. self-deprecating
2. superficial (knowledge, critique, etc.); shallow; poor
3. slight wound; slight cut
とおいっぺん
通り一遍
1. perfunctory; cursory; passing; conventional; formal (greetings, compliments, etc.); casual (acquaintance, remark, etc.); superficial; insincere
2. chance (e.g. customer); transient; stray
通りいっぺん 【とおりいっぺん】
ひにく
皮肉
1. irony; sarcasm; cynicism; satire
2. unexpected; different from what one expected; not as one had planned
3. (only) surface; something superficial
4. skin and bone; bodyArchaic, literal meaning
のどもとじあん
喉元思案
1. superficial way of thinking; shortsighted thinking; shallow ideaYojijukugo (four character compound)
咽元思案 【のどもとじあん】
はなさきじあん
鼻先思案
1. superficial (shortsighted) way of thinking; half-baked (foolish, ill-advised) ideaYojijukugo (four character compound)
鼻先思案 【はなさきしあん】
はんかつう
半可通
1. superficial knowledge; smattering (of)
2. person with superficial knowledge; person who pretends to be knowledgeable; smatterer; dilettante; sciolist
なまか
生噛じり
1. superficial knowledge; smattering
2. dabbler; dilettante
3. dipping into
生齧り 【なまかじり】、生かじり 【なまかじり】
じびきがくもん
字引学問
1. superficial learning; book learning; merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words
はなもとじあん
鼻元思案
1. superficial (shortsighted) way of thinking; half-baked (foolish, ill-advised) ideaYojijukugo (four character compound)
鼻元思案 【はなもとしあん】
いっちはんかい
一知半解
1. superficial knowledge; half knowledgeYojijukugo (four character compound)
はんちはんかい
半知半解
1. superficial knowledge; half knowledgeYojijukugo (four character compound)
こてさき
小手先
1. tip of the hand; (use of) one's hands
2. cheap trick; superficial wit; superficial cleverness
3. cheap; makeshift (e.g. measures); shortsighted; perfunctory; halfhearted
はるあさ
春浅し
1. early-spring; not yet springlike; before spring has truly arrivedPoetical term
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