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してんのうじ
四天王寺
いしずえ
きず
いた
とらいじん
渡来人
かもしれない
It may have been immigrants who laid the foundations of Shitennoji Temple.
Conjugations and inflections
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Names
してんのうじ   Shitennouji   (place name)  
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Words
expression, 'ku' godan verb
to lay the foundation (for)
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noun
people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese
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expression
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly  (often written with kana only)
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Kanji
シ   four   よ    よ    よっ    よん    
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legs
box, enclosure   
テン   あめ    あま- heaven   
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ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
オウ    king   
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ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
ジ   temple   てら Buddhist temple   
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スン   inch
ソ   いしずえ cornerstone, foundation   
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セキ   シャク   コク   いし stone   
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whereupon one
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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ソ   すわえ switch (for flogging)   
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ヒキ    roll / bolt of cloth   
リン   wood; trees   はやし wood   
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モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
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stick   
チク   きず to construct, to make   
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チク    zither   
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ハン   ボン    simple, mediocre   
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キ    table   
dot   
コウ   ク    work; construction; craft   
bamboo
ト   わた to cross   わた to hand over   
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ド   ト   タク   degree   たび occasion, time   
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广
stony cliff
廿
twenty; 20   にじゅう twenty   
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ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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また again   
スイ   みず water   
ライ   く to come   きた to be forthcoming   きた to induce   
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eight
ミ    not yet   
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