端 – vocab dash

端はし

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Meanings

Noun

1. end (e.g. of street); tip; point; edge; margin

2. beginning; start; first

3. odds and ends; scrap; odd bit; least

Other readings

Kanji used

Pitch accent

はし

Used in vocabulary

fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends

Noun

scraps; cut end; cut-off piece

Noun

every last one; one and all; from A to Z; as soon as; right after; no sooner (than)

Expression

tucking up the hem of one's garments

Noun

low class licensed prostitute (Edo period)

Noun

note written on the reverse of the right side of an ancient document (memorandum or explanation of the contents)

Noun

very end; extremity; edge; endmost one

Noun

Examples18

こっちの端はしを持もっててくれる？

Will you please hold this edge?

私わたしは通とおりを端はしから端はしまで歩あるいた。

I walked the length of the street.

スープのスプーンはいつも右みぎの端はしにある。

The soup-spoon is always on the extreme right.

テーブルの向むこうの端はしに座すわっているのは誰だれですか。

Who is the man sitting at the other end of the table?

その神しん経けい質しつの少しょう女じょはエンピツの端はしをかむ癖くせがある。

The nervous girl is in the habit of chewing the end of her pencil.

私わたしたちはそれぞれテーブルの端はしを持もち、テーブルを部屋へやの隅すみへ運はこんだ。

Each of us took hold of one end of the table and carried it to a corner of the room.