Illustration: In a small Japanese alterations shop, a customer stands on a low fitting platform wearing trousers that are slightly too long. A kneeling tailor folds up the bottom edge of one leg and secures it with a sewing clip just above the shoe.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

裾すそ

suso

hem, trouser cuff

Example sentences

  1. 身分みぶんが高たかいほど裾すそが長ながい。

    The higher ranking person wears the longer train.

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

  2. 裾すそが足首あしくびにつくようにすぼまっており、活動的かつどうてきで動うごきやすい。

    Its hems get narrower to ankles and this hakama is suitable for activities and mobile.

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

  3. この裾すそは身分差みぶんさなどを表現ひょうげんするようになって極端きょくたんに長ながくなった。

    This hem had been made extremely long since it came to be used to show class differences, and the like.

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

Kanji in 裾

  • 裾cuff; hemOnキョ・コKunすそ

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