Illustration: In a very small apartment kitchen, two adults try to pass each other in the gap between the counter and refrigerator. Both have turned sideways, elbows tucked tightly against their bodies, yet their shoulders almost touch.

JLPT N5i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

狭せまい

semai

narrow, cramped

Example sentences

  1. この部屋へやは私わたしたちにとって狭せますぎる。

    This room is too small for us.

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  2. 私わたしの部屋へやはとても狭せまいの。

    My room is very small.

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  3. ホテルに続つづく道みちは狭せまい。

    The road which leads to the hotel is narrow.

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Kanji in 狭

  • 狭cramped; narrowOnキョウ・コウKunせまい・せばめる・せばまる

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