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かみなり
雷
の
おと
音
は、
いなびかり
稲光
よりも
おく
遅
れて
き
聞
こえる
。
The sound of thunder comes after the flash of lightning.
Conjugations and inflections
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Words
か み な り 3 か み な り 4 か み な り 0
noun
1. lightning; thunder; thunderbolt
2. god of thunder; god of lightning  (this meaning is restricted to reading かみなり)
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お と 0
noun, noun (suffix)
1. sound; noise; report
2. note  (music term)
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い な び か り 3
noun
(flash of) lightning
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expression
1. in comparison to  (see also: より; emphatic form of より)
2. rather than
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お く れ る 0
Most common form: 後れる
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind schedule; to be overdue  (see also: 遅刻)
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き こ え る 0
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
1. to be heard; to be audible
2. to be said to be; to be reputed
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Kanji
雷
ライ   かみなり thunder   
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⻗
フ   あめ rain   
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田
デン   た rice field   
音
オン   イン   sound   おと    ね    
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日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
立
リツ   リュウ   たつ to stand   たてる to build   
稲
トウ   いね rice plant   いな-    
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旧
キュウ    former, old   
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丨
stick   
⺤
つめ claw; fingernail   
禾
grain
光
コウ   ひかり light, sunshine   ひかる to shine, twinkle   
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小
ショウ   こ-    お-    ちいさい small   
兀
one pair of legs
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
儿
legs
遅
チ   おそい late   おくれる to be late   おくらす to make late   
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羊
ヨウ   ひつじ sheep   
尸
corpse
⻌
move
聞
ブン   モン   きく to listen, to hear   きこえる to be heard   
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耳
ジ   みみ ear   
門
モン   かど gate   
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