List: sumo
Terms used in sumo, a Japanese full-contact sport.
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form sumo noun noun (generic)
- match declared drawn due to injury
- ending with both sides suffering damage (of a dispute, etc.)
popular sumo martial arts noun noun (generic)
- throw or throwing technique (sumo, judo)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb sumo
- person who clears the way for a high-ranking person, procession, etc., outrider, harbinger, forerunner
- opening performer
- sumo wrestler who leads a yokozuna at his ring-entering ceremony
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb sumo suffix
- to shine
- to be visible
- to be tinged with
- to rise (of water levels), to flow in
- to be felt (i.e. as an emotion), to come over one
- to hold up (an umbrella, etc.), to put up, to raise
- to extend one's arm straight ahead (in dance)
- to insert, to put in
- to wear (a sword) in one's belt, to wear at one's side, to carry under one's arm
- to insert one's arm under an opponent's arm
- to pole (a boat)
- to pour, to add (liquid), to serve (drinks)
- to put on (lipstick, etc.), to apply, to colour, to dye
- to light (a fire), to burn
- to shut, to close, to lock, to fasten
- to stop in the midst of, to leave undone
popular noun noun (generic) sumo
- meeting, gathering
- village assembly
- two wrestlers approaching each other
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- collapsing in the middle of a bout
- breaking down (while in the middle of something), faltering halfway
popular sumo martial arts noun noun (generic)
- leg trip (in sumo, judo, etc.)
- foothold, pedal
- indicates a consecutive period of time incl. incomplete days, etc. at the ends
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone auxiliary noun noun (generic) sumo
- should (be), bound (to be), expected (to be), must (be)
- nock (of a bow)
- nock (of an arrow)
- nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger)
- wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb sumo computing
- to stand up, to get up, to rise (to one's feet)
- to recover, to regain one's energy, to rise
- to (stand up and) take action, to rise up (against), to start (doing)
- to rise (from a crouch) and make the initial charge
- to start up, to boot up
- to be established, to be set up, to be formed, to be created
- to rise (of steam, smoke, etc.)
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) sumo
- overhang
- poster, placard, notice
- extra third or fourth wrestler of certain rank