Illustration: Inside a family tofu shop, an elderly owner places the worn shop keys into her adult daughter's outstretched hand. The daughter already wears the working apron and stands beside the familiar wooden tofu molds, ready to serve a waiting customer.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

跡あと継つぎ

atotsugi

heir, inheritor

Example sentences

  1. 跡継あとつぎを欠かいた中村家なかむらけはわずか2代だいで断絶だんぜつ。

    Without heir, the Nakamura family died out with only two generations.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 梅若六郎家うめわかろくろうけに跡継あとつぎとなる男子だんしがいなかった。

    At that time, the Rokuro UMEWAKA family had no son to take over the family business.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 父ちちの家光いえみつは、生うまれたときから家綱いえつなを自みずからの後継あとつぎに決きめていたという。

    It is said his father Iemitsu decided to make Ietsuna his successor at birth.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 跡継

  • 跡tracks; markOnセキKunあと
  • 継inherit; succeedOnケイKunつぐ・まま-

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