Illustration: In a neighborhood community room, residents spread cushions around a low table for a gathering. Where two walls meet behind a storage cabinet, a cat has curled into a tiny basket, its tail neatly following the basket rim.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

片かた隅すみ

katasumi

corner, nook

Example sentences

  1. ウサギでさえ、いじめられて片隅かたすみに追おいつめられると、刃向はむかってくるだろう。

    Even a rabbit, if badgered into a corner, will fight back.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼女かのじょはバスケットにかぶせてあるナプキンの片隅かたすみを持もち上あげ、ちらっと僕ぼくに見みせた。

    She lifted one corner of the napkin which covered her basket and let me have a quick look.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 方丈北側の壺庭で、片隅には紀州の巨岩・奇石が直立した枯滝が配されている。

    Courtyard garden in the north of the hojo with a dry waterfall created in a corner using large and unusual rocks from Kishu Province.

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

Kanji in 片隅

  • 片one-sided; leafOnヘンKunかた-・かた
  • 隅corner; nookOnグウKunすみ

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