侍 – vocab dash

侍さむらい

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Meanings

Noun

1. warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai (Historical)

2. person with a strong backbone; person that does incredible things; person of considerable talent (Colloquial)

Other spellings

士さむらい

Kanji used

侍samurai

Kanji in other spellings

士professional

Pitch accent

さむらい

Used in vocabulary

侍さむらい大だい将しょう

samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)

Noun

侍さむらい気質かたぎ

samurai spirit

Noun

田舎いなか侍ざむらい

(uncultured) country samurai

Noun

二に四し六む九く士さむらい

nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)

Expression

侍さむらい烏帽子えぼし

samurai eboshi; angularly folded eboshi worn by samurai

Noun

Examples3

『うぐいす侍さむらい』人にん間げん愛あいとユーモア溢あふれる侍さむらい物もの語がたり。

"The Nightingale Samurai" is a samurai tale full of humanity and humour.

太郎たろうには侍さむらいの血ちが流ながれている。

A samurai's blood runs in Taro's veins.

『カムイの剣けん』は、1868年ねんの徳川とくがわ将しょう軍ぐん時じ代だいの崩ほう壊かいと、明めい治じ天皇てんのう下したでの日本にほんの復ふっ興こうという変へん革かく期きを舞ぶ台たいにした、一いっ種しゅの侍さむらい/忍にん者じゃ物もの語がたりだ。

Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.