N21507/1725

算盤そろばん

atejirarely used kanji formusually written using kana alonenounnoun (generic)

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そろばん

Meanings

abacus, soroban
calculation (esp. of profit and loss), reckoning

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Example sentences

祖父そふは今いまでもそろばんを使つかって計算けいさんする。

My grandfather still uses an abacus to calculate.

この商売しょうばいはそろばんが合あわないから、やめた方ほうがいい。

You should quit this business because the numbers don't add up.

彼女かのじょは子供こどものころにそろばん教室きょうしつに通かよっていた。

She attended an abacus class when she was a child.

あの経営者けいえいしゃはいつもそろばんをはじいて利益りえきを計算けいさんしている。

That business owner is always clicking the abacus to calculate profits.

そろばんずくで動うごく人間にんげんを信頼しんらいするのは難むずかしい。

It is difficult to trust a person who acts solely on the basis of financial calculation.

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.)