Illustration: Inside a Japanese sumo training stable, two adult wrestlers wearing mawashi grapple on a clay practice ring bounded by embedded straw bales. One drives forward with a firm grip while the other leans inward, toes gripping the clay just inside the boundary.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

相撲すもう

sumou

sumo wrestling

Example sentences

  1. 相撲すもうを見みたことがありますか。

    Have you ever watched sumo wrestling?

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  2. 彼かれは大だいの相撲すもう狂きょうだ。

    He is a big sumo enthusiast.

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  3. 君きみは相撲すもうに詳くわしいね。

    You know quite a lot about sumo.

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Kanji in 相撲

  • 相inter-; mutualOnソウ・ショウKunあい-
  • 撲slap; strikeOnボク

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