しょうめん – Vocabulary details

しょうめん

Meanings

Adjective (の)

Noun

Prefix

1. front; frontage; facade; main

Alt. forms

正しょう面めん

99%

しょうめん

Pitch accent

しょ

うめ

ん

Used in: 20

Composed of

しょう

exactly; precisely; (arch.) correct; (arch.) right; (arch.) greater (of equal court ranks); (arch.) upper

めん

face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect

Used in vocabulary (13 in total)

ましょうめん

directly opposite; right in front

まっしょうめん

directly opposite; right in front

しょうめんから

(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front

しょうめんげんかん

front entrance; front door

しょうめんしょうとつ

head-on collision

しょうめんとっぱ

breaking the front line; frontal breakthrough

two-front war

frontal attack

front view

front elevation

side seating (to stage right in noh); centerstage right (noh)

せんとうしょうめんはば

frontage

かみのしょうめんほとけのましり

put your household shrine in a high position in the front of the house and your Buddhist altar in the back

Examples (3 in total)

しょうめん近ちかくの席せきに座すわりたいのですが。

I'd like to sit near the front.

しょうめんのドアは鍵かぎがかかったままだった。

The front door remained locked.

暖だん炉ろのしょうめんにくるようにソファーを動うごかしなさい。