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JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

下した町まち

shitamachi

older downtown district

Example sentences

  1. ここはしがない下町したまちの店みせです。

    This is but a humble downtown store.

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  2. 彼女かのじょは下町したまちで生うまれ育そだった。

    She was born and brought up on the backstreets.

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  3. 江戸時代後期えどじだいこうきから大正時代たいしょうじだいにかけて建碑けんぴが流行りゅうこうし、東京とうきょうの下町したまちには江戸文人えどぶんじんたちの碑いしぶみがたくさん残のこっている。

    During the era from the latter half of the Edo period to the Taisho period, building monuments was popular, and many monuments for men of literature in Edo remain in the Shitamachi area of Tokyo.

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

Kanji in 下町

  • 下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・もと
  • 町town; villageOnチョウKunまち

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