端
はし
end (e.g. of street); tip; point; edge
JLPT N3 Common word
Meanings
Noun
end (e.g. of street); tip; point; edge; margin- beginning; start; first
- odds and ends; scrap; odd bit; least
- origin; beginning
- variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; for haori: at least 7.27 m in length; for other clothes: at least 6.06 m in length
All 11 meanings
Suffix
tip; extremityNoun, No-adjective, Na-adjective
fraction; odd sumNoun
odd money; small changeAbbreviation- edge; tip; end
- gable wall
- gable
Rare and archaic meanings (1)
- low class female servantArchaic
Example sentences
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Will you please hold this edge?
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I hit my funny bone on the edge of the table.
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The room is at the end of the hall.
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The bedroom curtains have faded at the edges.
バスルームはホールの端にあります。
The bathroom is at the end of the hall.
More examples (10)
ここの端を押さえててもらえますか?
Will you please hold this edge?
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I met him at the end of the platform.
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The soup-spoon is always on the extreme right.
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Who is the man sitting at the other end of the table?
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The nervous girl is in the habit of chewing the end of her pencil.
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I put a stone at the edge of the sheet so that it won't get blown away by the wind.
このCDプレイヤーを棚の前の端にぴったりとくっつけてください。
Set the CD player square with the front edge of the shelf, please.
私たちはそれぞれテーブルの端を持ち、テーブルを部屋の隅へ運んだ。
Each of us took hold of one end of the table and carried it to a corner of the room.
ボーラは、手に握らないほうの端に2つの石の球と長いひもから成り立っている。
Bolas are made up of a long cord with two stone balls at the free ends.
僕ならスープ皿を持ってきて、グラスを充分に注意しながらテーブルの端まで滑らせて水をそのスープ皿に流し込むな。水は床にはこぼれない。
I'd get a soup plate and then slide the glass very carefully over to the edge of the table, and let the water run into the soup plate - it doesn't have to run onto the floor.