Illustration: Two relatives have played shogi deep into the night in a tatami room. Many pieces remain actively positioned on the board, with no winner apparent. One player stifles a huge yawn while carefully lowering a protective cover over the board without disturbing anything.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

持もち越こす

mochikosu

to carry over, to postpone

Example sentences

  1. 仏教ぶっきょうを巡めぐる争あらそいは更さらに次つぎの世代せだいに持もち越こされた。

    The conflict over Buddhism was taken over by the next generation.

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

  2. 他たに「蕎麦そばが切きれやすいことから、一年間いちねんかんの苦労くろうを切きり捨すて翌年よくねんに持もち越こさないよう願ねがった」という説せつもあるが、後付こうつけの説せつとも言いわれている。

    Another theory is that, since soba noodles are easily cut, they express the hope that all burdens imposed during the last year will be "cut off" and not carried over into the next year; however, this explanation is believed to be newer than the custom.

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

  3. 東大とうだいのような入試中止にゅうしちゅうしという事態じたいは免まぬかれたものの、戦後せんごはじめて卒業式そつぎょうしきが中止ちゅうしに追おい込こまれ、さらに翌年度よくねんどになってもいくつかの建物たてもののロックアウトは依然続いぜんつづき、全面解除ぜんめんかいじょは9月がつまで持もち越こされている。

    Kyoto University escaped the cancellation of the entrance exam, which really happened in Tokyo University, but its graduation ceremony was forced to cancel for the first time after the war, and some buildings in the campus remained locked out until the next academic year’s September, when they were all lifted.

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

Kanji in 持越

  • 持hold; haveOnジKunもつ・もてる
  • 越surpass; cross overOnエツ・オツKunこす・こえる

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