List: sumo
Terms used in sumo, a Japanese full-contact sport.
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo intransitive verb
- to partition, to divide, to mark off
- to direct, to manage, to run, to organize, to take responsibility for
- to settle accounts
- to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout), to poise oneself for the initial charge
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- official sumo tournament (six per year), Grand Sumo Tournament, honbasho
popular noun noun (generic) food, cooking sumo
- protrusion, projection
- hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, snack (served with a drink)
- frontal thrust out (winning technique), pushing one's opponent out of the ring
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- driving opponent out of the ring while gripping his belt
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) sumo
- debit, withdrawal
- pulling (one's opponent) down, frontal pull-down, hiki-otoshi
popular noun noun (generic) sumo
- overeagerness, rashness
- forward step-out
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo
- to show (someone) out, to see (someone) off, to send off, to produce (as in a university producing graduates)
- to forward, to dispatch (goods), to send off
- to push (one's opponent) out of the ring from behind
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- thrusting down (winning technique)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb sumo
- to cramp up, to tighten, to stiffen
- to be insistent, to persist (in one's opinion), to stick to one's guns
- to act tough, to bluff, to be defiant, to be unruly
- to prop up (e.g. with a post), to support
- to push out (one's legs or arms), to stretch (e.g. an arm against the wall), to press
- to thrust (one's opponent)
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- wrestling in which both wrestlers grasp the other's belt with both hands