N326/1669

骨ほね

nounnoun (generic)な adjectiveadjective (generic)

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ほね

Meanings

  • bone
  • frame
  • outline, core
  • backbone, spirit, fortitude
  • laborious, troublesome, difficult

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転ころんで足あしの骨ほねを折おってしまった。

I fell and ended up breaking the bone in my leg.

この魚さかなは骨ほねが多おおくて食たべにくい。

This fish has many bones and is hard to eat.

彼かれは骨ほねのある人間にんげんで、困難こんなんにも決けっして屈くっしない。

He is a person with backbone and never yields to hardship.

新あたらしい部署ぶしょのマネージャーになることは骨ほねが折おれる仕事しごとだ。

Becoming the manager of a new department is a laborious task.

彼女かのじょの提案ていあんはこのプロジェクトの骨ほねとなる重要じゅうようなアイデアだと評価ひょうかされた。

Her proposal was recognized as the core idea that forms the backbone of this project.

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床ゆか

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

実み

fruit, nut; seed; (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.; content, substance

節ふし

joint, knuckle; tune, melody; node (of a plant stem), joint, knot (in wood), knob; (notable) point, part; node

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床ゆか

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

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実み

fruit, nut; seed; (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.; content, substance

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節ふし

joint, knuckle; tune, melody; node (of a plant stem), joint, knot (in wood), knob; (notable) point, part; node

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文ぶん

sentence; composition, text, writings; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts), academia, literature; statement

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値ね

price, cost; value, worth, merit

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象ぞう

elephant (Elephantidae spp.)

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