Illustration: In a narrow apartment entrance, a resident has dropped their keys behind a heavy shoe cabinet. Their bare hand cannot fit into the gap, and their face still shows the frustration of the failed reach. Now they slide a long ruler with a loop of adhesive tape on its end into the opening.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

手て立だて

tedate

means, way

Example sentences

  1. 島しまを出でる手てだてはありません。

    There’s no way off the island.

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  2. この病気びょうきを防ふせぐ手立てだてはない。

    It is a disease that can’t be prevented.

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  3. 何なにか逃にげる手てだてを考かんがえねばならない。

    We must devise some means of escape.

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Kanji in 手立

  • 手handOnシュ・ズKunて・て-・た-
  • 立stand; riseOnリツ・リュウ・リットルKunたつ・たち-・たてる

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