Last Updated :2025/12/07

澪標

Hiragana
みおつくし
Noun
Japanese Meaning
水路の航行安全のために設置される標識。水路の境界や浅瀬の位置などを示すための杭や柱。 / 古典和歌などで、水路の標識から転じて「道しるべ」や「頼りとするもの」の比喩として用いられる語。 / 『伊勢物語』第七段に見られる「難波潟 みをつくしても逢はむとぞ思ふ」の歌に由来し、「身を尽くす」「一途な思い」「自己犠牲的な愛情」などを連想させる語。
Easy Japanese Meaning
ふねがとおるみちをしめすために みずのうえに たてる めじるし
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He drove the boat relying on the channel marker.

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Sense(1)

a dolphin erected as a daybeacon or daymark: a navigational marker indicating the bounds of a water channel

Sense(2)

allusion to 尽くし (tsukushi, “exhausting”)

Sense(3)

one of the sixty-one famous incense varieties, made from aromatic 伽羅 (kyara) wood with a bitter smell

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romanization

romanization

hiragana historical

hiragana

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Rōmaji

hiragana historical

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a dolphin erected as a daybeacon or daymark: a navigational marker indicating the bounds of a water channel / allusion to 尽くし (tsukushi, “exhausting”)

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澪標

彼は澪標を頼りに船を運転した。

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He drove the boat relying on the channel marker.

He drove the boat relying on the channel marker.

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彼は澪標を頼りに船を運転した。

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