Illustration: A resident has just hung a framed full-length family photograph upside down in an apartment hallway. Within the photograph, shoes are at the top and smiling faces at the bottom. The resident still holds the frame’s lower corners, looking pleased with its straight alignment.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

逆さかさま

sakasama

upside down, reversed

Example sentences

その絵えは逆さかさまにかかっている。
The picture is hung upside down.
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彼かれの本ほんはさかさまだった。
His book was upside down.
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それを逆さかさまに持もってはいけません。
Don’t hold it upside down.
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Kanji in 逆

逆inverted; reverseOnギャク・ゲキKunさか・さかさ・さからう

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