合

Meanings

1. Noun

   gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180 ml
2. gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 square meters
3. one-tenth of the distance from the base to the summit of a mountain
4. conjunction
5. sum; total

• お米こめ2合ごう炊かしいといて。

  Cook 2 Japanese cups of rice.

• 私わたしはある時とき、初はじめて識しきり合ごうひになつた画家がかに伴ともはれて、深夜しんやそのアトリエにはひつたことがある。屋根裏やねうらの薄暗うすぐらい部屋へやである。

  One time, I went to the atelier of a painter I had just met in the middle of the night. It was a dark room in an attic.

• もちろん、実際じっさいに「はやぶさ」が太陽たいように近ちかづいているわけではなく、図ずのように地球ちきゅうから見みて太陽たいようの反対側はんたいがわに位置いちするだけですが、このような現象げんしょうを「合ごう」と呼よびます。

  Of course "Hayabusa" is not actually closing in on the Sun, it is just positioned as in the figure so that, seen from the Earth, it is on the opposite side of the Sun; this is called 'conjunction'.

• 私わたしは巴里ぱり滞在中たいざいちゅう、二三にさんの画家がか諸君しょくんと識しきり合ごうひになり、ちよいちよいアトリエを訪たずねるやうなこともあつたが、いつでもその仕事しごと振ふり、生活振せいかつぶりに多大ただいの興味きょうみを惹ひかれた。

  When I was in Paris, I became acquainted with two or three painters, and I went to visit their atelier from time to time. I was always fascinated by their method of work and their way of life.