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  [じ]    meaning:  letter  rank: 1
☆ アルファベット使う欧米で字がめないがいるというのは不思議だ ⇨ It is somewhat strange that there are illiterate people in the US and Europe where alphabets are used
☆ の字は汚すぎてめない ⇨ His letters are, handwriting is, so bad and cannot be read
☆ 名前彼女名前も「ともこ」だが字が違う ⇨ My name and her name are both “Tomoko” but with different Kanji letters


More examples:
  • 会社はやっと黒字になった ⇨ The company has finally become profitable
  • 売上見込んでいた数字にかなかった ⇨ The sales didn’t come close to the figure we expected
  • 会社は赤字経営をしている ⇨ The company is losing money
  • あなたの名字はですか? ⇨ What is your family name?
  • 会社は10億の赤字を計上した ⇨ The company recorded a loss of ¥1 billion
  • 「ぶっ殺すぞ」は日本語では一般的表現だが、勿論文字通りの意味ではない ⇨ “I will kill you brutally” is a common expression in Japanese, even though obviously nobody means it literally
  • 漢字を部首検索する ⇨ Search a kanji by radical
  • 彼女をへの字にげた ⇨ She bent her mouth like the letter “へ”. She made an unhappy face
  • 点字は触覚使う文字だ ⇨ Braille are letters that use sense of touch
  • 名前一升に一文字づつく ⇨ Write your name one character per cell
  • 日本語には中国語起源の四字熟語が沢山ある ⇨ There are many Chinese-drived four character idioms in Japanese
  • 象形文字 ⇨ Hieroglyphs
  • ローマ字は表音文字だ。これにして漢字は表意文字だ ⇨ Roman alphabets are phonograms. On the other hand Kanjis are ideograms
  • この教科書は漢字に平仮名振っている ⇨ This textbook adds hiraganas for kanjis
  • 文字がかすれていて読みにくい ⇨ The letters are partially scratched, rubbed, off and hard to read