端 – vocab dash

端はな

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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

はな

Used in vocabulary

entrance (i.e. of a Japanese house); start of a rise (e.g. in prices)

Noun

entrance (i.e. of a Japanese house); start of a rise (e.g. in prices)

Noun

when one has just fallen asleep; moment just after falling asleep; time soon after falling asleep

Noun

from the start; from the beginning; from the outset

Expression

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.