19 results for *曽*

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  1. Adverb (fukushi), Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

    once; before; formerly; ever; former; ex-

    Usually written using kana alone

    一般に日本人は、自分たちがかつてより暮らし向きがよくなったと考えている。
    The Japanese at large consider themselves better off than they used to be.
  2. never yet; never before; first time; still not happened

    Usually written using kana aloneused with neg. verb

Also written 曽て【かつて】都て【かつて】

Pitch on OJAD

More words

ひい

Prefixgreat (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)

曾遊そうゆう

Nounformer visit

ひ孫ひまご

Noungreat-grandchild

熊襲くまそ

NounKumaso (ancient Japanese people who lived in southern Kyushu) · Kumaso (former province located in present-day Miyazaki Prefecture)

曽祖父そうそふ

Noungreat-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad

曾祖母そうそぼ

Noungreat-grandmother; great-grandma

未曾有みぞう

Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Noununprecedented; unheard-of; record-breaking

白檜曽しらびそ

NounVeitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii)

木曽馬きそうま

NounKiso horse (Japanese indigenous horse breed); kisouma

木曽路きそじ

NounKiso valley section of the Nakasendo

鬢削ぎびんそぎ

Nouncutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)

佐曾羅さそら

Nounincense variety used in kōdō (orig. from India)

大白檜曽おおしらびそ

NounMaries' fir (Abies mariesii)

曽祖父母そうそふぼ

Noungreat-grandparents

曽我物語そがものがたり

NounSoga Monogatari (war chronicle)

伊曽保物語いそほものがたり

NounAesop's Fables (published initially by the Jesuits in 1593)

曾おじいさんひいおじいさん

Noungreat-grandfather

曾おばあさんひいおばあさん

Noungreat-grandmother