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かお
顔
を
うしな
失
う
とは
は
恥
じ
をかかされるという
いみ
意味
である。
To lose face means to be humiliated.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
か お 0
noun
1. face; visage
2. look; expression; countenance
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う し な う 0
'u' godan verb, transitive verb
to lose; to part with
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は じ る 2
to feel ashamed
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か か す 0
Most common form: 欠かす
'su' godan verb, transitive verb
to miss (doing); to fail (to do); to lack
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expression
1. called; named; that says; that  (often written with kana only)
2. as many as; as much as  (after a quantity; often written with kana only)
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い み 1
meaning; significance
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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
顔
ガン   かお face   
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彦
ひこ boy (archaic)   
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产
standing on the cliff
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立
リツ   リュウ   たつ to stand   たてる to build   
厂
cliff
彡
fur, bristles, beard   
頁
ページ page, leaf of a book   
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丆
whereupon one
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
貝
かい shellfish   
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ハ
katakana 'ha'; eight
目
ボク   モク   eye   ま-    め    
失
シツ   うしなう to lose   
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矢
シ   や arrow   
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大
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
恥
チ   はじ shame   はじる to feel ashamed   はじらう to be shy   はずかしい ashamed   
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耳
ジ   みみ ear   
心
シン   こころ heart   
意
イ    idea   
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音
オン   イン   sound   おと    ね    
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日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
味
ミ   あじ taste   あじわう to taste   
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未
ミ    not yet   
口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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