Illustration: In an otherwise open Japanese living room, a cat has squeezed into the precise corner where two walls meet behind a small floor cushion. Its rounded body touches both walls, and its tail curls tightly around its paws.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

隅すみ

sumi

corner, nook

Example sentences

  1. すみに誰だれかが隠かくれている。

    Someone is hiding in the corner.

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  2. 部屋へやのすみに机つくえがあります。

    There is a desk in a corner of the room.

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  3. 隅すみのテーブルがいいのですが。

    Could we have a table in the corner?

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Kanji in 隅

  • 隅corner; nookOnグウKunすみ

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