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本ほん領りょう
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Meanings
Noun
1. characteristic quality; special character; one's real ability; one's specialty
2. one's function; one's duty
3. fief; inherited estate
Kanji used
本book領territory
Pitch accent
ほんりょう
ほんりょう
Used in vocabulary
本ほん領りょう安あん堵ど
recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods)
Noun
本ほん領りょう発はっ揮き
show one's real ability; illustration of the distinctive character of (something)
Noun
Examples3
This writer is at his best in his short stories.
He is in his element when talking economics.
On bad roads this little car really comes into its own.