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To find any kanji, first try to identify the components it is made up of. Once you have identified any component, search for it in any of three ways:

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Example: look up 漢

Notice that 漢 is made of several components: 氵艹口夫
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Alternatively, look for a component in the list. 氵艹口 each have three strokes; 夫 has four strokes
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209 examples found containing 'まし' (results also include variant forms and possible homonyms)

い

じてんしゃ

だがないよりましだ。

This bicycle is old, but it's better than nothing.

くてもしないよりはまし。

Better late than never.

しょうねん

は

しつつある。

Juvenile delinquency is increasing.

ないよりまし。

Better late than never.

りょうしん

に

れるだけましだよ。

At least you can rely on your parents.

を

んだほうがましだ。

We might as well die as disgrace ourselves.

もしないでいるより

いているほうがましだ。

Work is preferable to idleness.

は

の

が

しはましだ。

The weather is a shade better today.

どんな

でもいないよりはましだ。

Anybody would be better than nobody.

こんな

の

を

かけるよりは、

にいるほうがましだ。

I'd rather stay home than go out in this weather.

かけるよりは

にいるほうがましだ。

I would rather stay home than go out.

こんな

い

には

がいしゅつ

にいるほうがましだ。

I would rather stay at home than go out on such a cold day.

ぼくは

の

がましだと

っている。

I think death is preferable to shame.

じょうほう

がないより

い

らせでもあるほうがまだましだ。

Bad news is preferable to an absence of information.

んだほうがましだ。

I would rather die than surrender.

そこに

くよりむしろここにいるほうがましだ。

I would rather stay here than go there.

は

のほうがましだと

っている。

I think death is preferable to shame.

の

を

けました。

Mr. King was consulted last year.

もう１１

です。おいとましなくてはいけません。

It's already eleven o'clock. I must be leaving now.

は

しとなります。

Non-members pay an additional 50 dollars.

をかくより

んだほうがましだと

は

っている。

He would rather die than disgrace himself.

のほうがましである。

Death preferable to shame.

するくらいなら

んだほうが

しだ。

I would rather die than yield.

は

の

よりましな

を

んだ。

She wanted a better job than cleaning office floors.

くともやらないよりはまし。

Better late than never.

のオリンピックは

だったけど、イベントがうまくいったと

えるだけましだ。

While the Olympics this year were a lot of trouble, at least we can say that the events went smoothly.

Source: Japan Times

は

を

るよりはむしろ

するほうがましだ。

I would sooner starve than betray him.

に

のなかりせば、

の

はのどけからまし。 line from poem, haiku, dialogue etc.

If there were no cherry trees at all in the world, how serene would people's minds be in spring?

かったけれども、あの

ならまだましだった。

Bad as it was, it could have been worse.

しいのなら

んだほうがましだ。

Death is preferable to such suffering.

Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.

Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.

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