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1 exact word match found in search '本末転倒'
ほ ん ま つ て ん と う 1
failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards  (yojijukugo)
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14 partial word matches found in search '本末転倒'
ほ ん 1
noun
1. book; volume; script  (see also: ご本・ごほん)
prefix
2. this; present
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ほ ん ま つ 1
noun
essence and fringe; beginning and ending; root and branch; means and end
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も と 1
noun
1. origin; source  (usu. 元)
2. base; basis; foundation; root  (esp. 基)
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す え 0
noun
1. tip; top  (see also: 末)
noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
2. end; close (e.g. close of the month)
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Most common form: まつ
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun
1. the end of
2. powder
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う れ 2
noun
new shoots; new growth (of a tree)  (archaic)
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noun
top end; tip  (archaic)
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て ん と う 0
1. falling down; tumbling; overturning; turning over
2. reversing; inverting; inversion
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て ん 1
noun
1. altering pronunciation or meaning; word with altered pronunciation or meaning
2. turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)  (see also: 転句; abbreviation)
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noun
cognitive distortion  (Buddhist term)
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Most common form: くるり
1. turning around (once)  (often written with kana only; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
2. suddenly; abruptly
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Most common form: 転た
more and more; increasingly; all the more  (see also: 益々:ますます, 愈:いよいよ; often written with kana only)
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さ か し ま 0
Most common form: 逆しま
1. reverse; inversion; upside down
2. unreasonable; absurd; wrong
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さ か 1
Most common form: 逆
noun (prefix), noun
inverse; reverse
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