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Examples:

食い込む くいこむ

  1. to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to dig into (e.g. of fingernails)
  2. to break into (e.g. first place); to cut into (e.g. time, savings); to eat into; to encroach; to erode; to make inroads; to penetrate (e.g. a market)
  3. to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
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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.