The Japanese dictionary for learners.

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Examples:

履く はく

  1. to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear
  2. to affix (a sword to one's hip)
  3. to affix (a bowstring to a bow)

二足のわらじを履く にそくのわらじをはく

  1. to be engaged in two trades at the same time; to have two irons in the fire; to wear two pairs of straw sandals
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A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.