N21555/1725

じゃん拳けん

rarely used kanji formusually written using kana alonenounnoun (generic)noun or participle taking the aux. verb するintransitive verb

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じゃんけん

Meanings

rock-paper-scissors (game), janken

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Example sentences

じゃんけんで決きめよう。

Let's decide by rock-paper-scissors.

じゃんけんをして、負まけた人ひとが払はらうことになった。

We played rock-paper-scissors and it was decided that the loser would pay.

誰だれが最初さいしょに発表はっぴょうするかをじゃんけんで決きめた。

We decided who would present first by playing rock-paper-scissors.

じゃんけんしたら、三さん回かい連続れんぞくでグーを出だしてしまった。

When we played rock-paper-scissors, I ended up throwing rock three times in a row.

単純たんじゅんな問題もんだいをじゃんけんで解決かいけつしようとするのは、合理的ごうりてきな方法ほうほうとは言いえない場面ばめんもある。

There are situations where trying to resolve simple issues through rock-paper-scissors cannot be called a rational approach.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)