Illustration: In a Japanese home beside a neighborhood temple, a family gathers around steaming bowls of soba late at night. An analog clock with plain tick marks has both hands approaching twelve. Through the open curtains, a bundled temple attendant draws back the wooden striker beside a large hanging bell.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

大晦日おおみそか

oomisoka

New Year’s Eve

Example sentences

  1. 大晦日おおみそかは友達ともだちと過すごしました。

    I spent New Year’s Eve with some of my friends.

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  2. 大晦日おおみそかには何なにか特別とくべつなことをするの？

    Are you doing anything special for New Year’s Eve?

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  3. 日本にっぽんでは大晦日おおみそかに蕎麦そばを食たべる習慣しゅうかんがあります。

    There is a custom of eating buckwheat noodles on New Year’s Eve in Japan.

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Kanji in 大晦日

  • 大large; bigOnダイ・タイKunおお-・おおきい
  • 晦dark; disappearOnカイKunつごもり・くらい・みそか
  • 日sun; dayOnニチ・ジツKunひ

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