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:2025/12/21
せく
Kanji
堰く / 塞く / 咳く
Verb
Japanese Meaning
(堰く・塞く)水や流れをせきとめて、進まないようにする。ふさぎとめる。 / (咳く)咳をする。せきをする。
Easy Japanese Meaning
みずや くうきを とめて ながれないように すること または のどが ひとりでに なって からだが せきを すること
Chinese (Simplified)
筑坝;阻塞 / 咳嗽
Sense(1)
堰く, 塞く: (transitive) to dam
Sense(2)
咳く: (intransitive) to cough
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堰く, 塞く: (transitive) to dam / 咳く: (intransitive) to cough
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せく
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He built a dam to dam up the river water.
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川の水をせくために、彼はダムを建設した。
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