Keyword
samurai
Info
FrequencyTop 1200-1300
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig1050
Readings
(55%)
はべ
(3%)
Composed of
thin person
Buddhist temple
Used in vocabulary (48 in total)
lady attendant; lady's maid; waiting maid
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer
chamberlain
to wait upon; to serve
court physician
attendant; attendance upon another
courtier; attendant
attendant; valet; altar boy; acolyte
samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)
maid of honor; maid of honour
to wait upon; to serve
provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime
Board of Retainers (Kamakura and Muromachi-period government office); samurai guard house (Heian and Kamakura periods)
to wait upon; to serve
flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)
assisting (a dignitary)
provincial samurai
emperor's aide-de-camp
maid of honor; maid of honour; lady-in-waiting
respectfully; private secretary
tutor to a daimyo, etc.; tutor to the emperor or crown prince (Meiji period)
rustic samurai; boorish samurai
concubine; mistress
cowardly or depraved samurai
guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period)
bodyguard
board of chamberlains
serving; attending on someone
humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot
imperial tutor
cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside
flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)
flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)
retainer; attending on the nobility
Polyergus samurai (species of amazon ant)
mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)
captain of the guard
lady-in-waiting
to wait upon; to serve; to be; to humbly do ...
low-ranking samurai; samurai of the lowest rank
respectfully
Examples (2 in total)
I live by the way of the samurai.
Nowadays there are no ninjas or samurais in Japan.