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侍 Retainer - Japanese Dictionary Lookup
侍
English: Retainer
Onyomi:
ジ
シ
Kunyomi:
さむらい
はべる
Nanori: かみ
Romaji:
samurai
ji
shi
samurai
haberu
Radical: 人
Kanji: 侍 (8 Strokes)
Grade Level: 8
JLPT Level: JLPT 1
Frequency Rank: 1939
Part of Speech: noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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Different Meanings:

Noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

さむらいジャパン :: 侍ジャパン Samurai Japan (national baseball team)

しちにんのさむらい :: 七人の侍 Seven Samurai (film by Akira Kurosawa)

じそう :: 侍曹 Respectfully

じしょう :: 侍妾 Mistress

じしょう :: 侍妾 Concubine

さぶらいだいしょう :: 侍大将 Samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)

さんぴんざむらい :: 三一侍 Samurai of the lowest rank

さんぴんざむらい :: 三一侍 Low-ranking samurai

ほうじ :: 奉侍 Attending on someone

ほうじ :: 奉侍 Serving

かちざむらい :: 徒侍 Humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot

さむらいどころ :: 侍所 Samurai guard house (Heian and Kamakura periods)

さむらいどころ :: 侍所 Board of Retainers (Kamakura and Muromachi-period government office)

とおさぶらい :: 遠侍 Guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period)

ふなざむらい :: 鮒侍 Cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside

じざむらい :: 地侍 Provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime

さむらいあり :: 侍蟻 Polyergus samurai (species of amazon ant)

わきじ :: 挟侍 Flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)

わきじ :: 夾侍 Flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)

わきじ :: 脇侍 Flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)

わかざむらい :: 若侍 Young samurai

ばいじ :: 陪侍 Attending on the nobility

ばいじ :: 陪侍 Retainer

Irregular ru verb, plain form ends with -ri

はべり :: 侍り To humbly do ...

はべり :: 侍り To be

はべり :: 侍り To serve

はべり :: 侍り To wait upon

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)

にしむくさむらい :: 西向く侍 Nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)

Godan verb with 'su' ending

はべらす :: 侍らす To serve

はべらす :: 侍らす To wait upon

Using 侍 in sentences:

(Japanese) 侍と忍者って何が違うの？

(English)

(Japanese) 太郎には侍の血が流れている。

(English) A samurai's blood runs in Taro's veins.

(Japanese) 現代の日本に忍者や侍はいません。

(English) Nowadays there are no ninjas or samurais in Japan.

(Japanese) 俺は侍の道で生きてる。

(English) I live by the way of the samurai.

(Japanese) 『カムイの剣』は、1868年の徳川将軍時代の崩壊と、明治天皇下での日本の復興という変革期を舞台にした、一種の侍/忍者物語だ。

(English) Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.

How do you say Retainer in Japanese?

Answer: 侍

How many kanji strokes does 侍 have?

Answer: 8

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