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ひゆ
比喩
は
しんしょうふうけい
心象風景
の
てんびょう
点描
である。
A metaphor is a sketch of an image in the mind’s eye.
Grammar and points of interest
other forms of です other forms of です
 
だ, である, であります, でございます, ではない etc
比喩は心象風景の点描である。
Conjugations and inflections
  である is the plain form of irregular 'ru' godan verb である   ALL INFLECTIONS
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Words
ひ ゆ 1
noun
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable
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noun
imagined landscape; scenery in one's mind's eye  (yojijukugo)
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て ん び ょ う 0
1. sketching
2. pointillism; stippling
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で あ る 3
be; is  (see also: だ, であります; formal or literary copula)
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Kanji
比
ヒ   くらべる to compare   
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匕
さじ spoon   
喩
ユ   illustrate
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兪
ユ    in general; generalization   
口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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心
シン   こころ heart   
象
ショウ   ゾウ    image; elephant   
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豕
pig
丨
stick   
⺈
corner
風
フ   フウ   かぜ wind   かざ-    
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
虫
チュウ   むし insect   
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
丶
dot   
中
チュウ   ジュウ   なか middle   
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table   
景
ケイ   scenery
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日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
京
キョウ   ケイ    capital   
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小
ショウ   こ-    お-    ちいさい small   
亠
lid
点
テン    spot, point   
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灬
fire
占
セン   しめる to occupy, hold   うらなう to tell fortunes   
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卜
divining rod
描
ビョウ   かく    えがく to draw, depict, portray   
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苗
ビョウ   なわ-    なえ seedling   
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艹
grass   
田
デン   た rice field   
扌
hand
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