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あの
かんぼうちょうかん
官房長官
は
おもて
表
に
で
出
ず
わきやく
脇役
に
てっ
徹
した。
The chief of staff didn’t show up, thereby staying in the supporting role.
Grammar and points of interest
あの あの
 
that ~ over there
あの官房長官は表に出ず脇役に徹した。
Conjugations and inflections
  表に出ず is the ず negative form of ichidan verb 表に出る   ALL INFLECTIONS
  徹した is the past form of suru verb - special class 徹する   ALL INFLECTIONS
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Words
あ の 1
that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener)  (see also: 何の・どの, 此の, 其の, 彼・あれ; often written with kana only)
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か ん ぼ う ち ょ う か ん 5
noun
Chief Cabinet Secretary
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expression, ichidan verb
1. to come to a head
2. to be out in public
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わ き や く 0
supporting role (actor); minor role
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て っ す る 0 て っ す る 3
suru verb - special class
1. to penetrate; to sink in
2. to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively
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Kanji
官
カン    bureaucrat   
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㠯
two mouths
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口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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宀
roof   
房
ボウ   room   ふさ a tassle   
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戸
コ   と door   
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
尸
corpse
方
ホウ   かた way, direction   
長
チョウ   ながい long   
表
ヒョウ   おもて surface, front   あらわす to show, to represent   あらわれる to be present, to appear   
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龶
シュ   ぬし    あるじ master, proprietor, owner   
イ   ころも    きぬ clothes   
出
シュツ   スイ   だす to take out, to put out   でる to go out, to exit   
脇
わき armpit   
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劦
3x the effort
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力
リョク   リキ   ちから effort; power   
⺼
ニク body part   
役
ヤク   エキ    office, role; service   
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彳
step
殳
lance shaft   
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几
キ    table   
又
また again   
徹
テツ    to go through, to pierce   
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育
イク   そだつ to grow up   そだてる    はぐくむ to raise, to rear   
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private lidded
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厶
ム   private
亠
lid
月
ガツ   ゲツ   つき month; moon   
攵
ぼく strike   
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