Results, 啖う
- 食う☆【くう】喰う☆・啖うold Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
- to eat - male language
- to live; to make a living; to survive
- to bite; to sting (as insects do)
- to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of
- to encroach on; to eat into; to consume
- to defeat a superior; to threaten a position
- to consume time and-or resources
- to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event) - colloquialism
- to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time - male language - vulgar
蓼食う虫も好き好き。 There is no accounting for tastes.
この事業は金を食う。 This job eats money.
今時、年功序列だなんて言っても、若い奴の反発を食うだけですよ。 If you try to defend the seniority-based corporate escalator these days all you'll get is flak from younger employees.
JLPTN3
Kanji definition:
- 啖
タン・くう・くらわす
eat
- Strokes:
- 11
- Radical:
- 口 mouth
- SKIP:
- 1-3-8
- UTF:
- 5556
- JIS208:
- 51-23
- Hangul:
- 담 [dam]
- Pinyin:
- dàn
- Example words:
- 啖う【くう】
- to eat; / to live; to make a living; to survive; / to bite; to sting (as insects do); / to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of; / to encroach on; to eat into; to consume; / to defeat a superior; to threaten a position; / to consume time and-or resources; / to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event); / to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time
- 健啖【けんたん】
- gluttony; voracity
- 健啖家【けんたんか】
- glutton; gormandizer; gormandiser
- 啖呵【たんか】
- caustic words
- 啖呵を切る【たんかをきる】
- to speak sharply (e.g. during a heated discussion or argument)
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