Illustration: In a small Japanese home kitchen, a cook returns to find flour scattered across the counter and a carefully prepared row of dumplings flattened. Paw prints lead directly through the destruction to a cat sitting inside the flour bowl. One flour-covered paw still rests on the final intact dumpling.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

仕し業わざ

shiwaza

one’s doing, deed

Often implies blame. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

恐おそらく、トムの仕業しわざだよ。
It’s probably Tom’s doing!
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それ、ウィルスの仕業しわざじゃないかな。
That looks like the work of a virus.
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トムの仕業しわざであることは明あきらかだった。
It was clear that Tom was the one who did that.
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Kanji in 仕業

仕attend; doingOnシ・ジKunつかえる
業business; vocationOnギョウ・ゴウKunわざ

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