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JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

流行はやり

hayari

fashion, fad

Example sentences

  1. これが最近さいきんはやりの服ふくですか。

    Is this dress the latest fashion?

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  2. 赤あかはもう流行はやりじゃない。

    Red is out of fashion.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 菊きくは「菊花紋章きっかもんしょう」から皇室こうしつの代名詞だいめいしとされ、幕末ばくまつの流行はやり歌うたに「菊きくは咲さく咲さく、葵あおいは枯かれる」と歌うたわれている。

    The Chrysanthemum became the nickname of the Imperial family because of the use of Kikuka-monsho, and there was a popular song which said 'the Chrysanthemum blossoms, the hollyhock dies' at the end of the Edo period.

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

Kanji in 流行

  • 流current; a sinkOnリュウ・ルKunながれる・ながれ・ながす
  • 行go; carry outOnコウ・ギョウ・アンKunいく・ゆく・おこなう

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