Illustration: On the raised clay ring of an indoor sumo arena, a grand champion performs a ceremonial ring-entering movement. He wears an ornate ceremonial apron and the distinctive thick white rope around his waist, with folded paper streamers hanging from it.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

横よこ綱づな

yokozuna

sumo grand champion

Example sentences

  1. 巨体きょたいとも伝つたわるが、実際じっさいには歴代れきだい横綱よこづなの中なかでは小柄こがらな方ほう。

    Although he is said to have had a gigantic body, he was actually small for yokozuna.

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

  2. 江戸時代えどじだいに横綱よこづな免許めんきょを受うけた最後さいごの力士りきしである。

    He was the last sumo wrestler who received a Yokozuna license during the Edo period.

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

  3. 身長しんちょう169cmで記録きろくの残のこる横綱よこづなの中なかでは4番目ばんめの小兵力士こひょうりきし。

    He was only 169 centimeters in height and the fourth shortest Yokozuna in the recorded Sumo history.

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

Kanji in 横綱

  • 横sideways; sideOnオウKunよこ
  • 綱hawser; class (genus)OnコウKunつな

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