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点てん々てん

adverbadverb taking the と particlenounnoun (generic)

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てんてん

Meanings

here and there, little by little, sporadically, scattered in drops
dots, spots

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Example sentences

彼女かのじょの白しろいシャツに泥どろが点々てんてんとついていた。

There were scattered spots of mud on her white shirt.

山道やまみちに沿そって民家みんかが点々てんてんと並ならんでいる。

Houses are scattered here and there along the mountain path.

砂漠さばくの中なかにオアシスが点々てんてんと存在そんざいする。

Oases exist sporadically throughout the desert.

地図ちず上じょうに遺跡いせきの場所ばしょが点々てんてんと記しるされていた。

The locations of ruins were marked in scattered dots on the map.

証拠しょうことなる品物しなものが犯行はんこう現場げんばから駅えきに至いたるまでの道みちに点々てんてんと落おちていたことから、警察けいさつは逃走とうそう経路けいろを特定とくていした。

From the fact that items of evidence were scattered along the road from the crime scene to the station, the police identified the escape route.

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.)