Illustration: On a residential street after school, two children with randoseru are walking home together. One continues along the pavement but turns back, beckoning toward the route ahead. The other has stepped into the shallow entrance of a neighborhood aquarium shop and crouched beside an outdoor goldfish tub.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

寄より道みち

yorimichi

to stop off on the way

Example sentences

  1. 寄より道みちせずに家いえに帰かえるつもりだったのに、つい本屋ほんやへと足あしが向むいてしまう。

    I intended to go straight back home, but I sort of wandered inside a bookstore.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 寄より道みちしたせいで見みたいテレビに間まに合あわなかった。

    I missed the TV show I wanted to watch because I stopped off on the way.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. 仕事しごとの帰かえりに少すこし寄より道みちして、花はなを買かった。

    I made a quick stop on my way home from work to buy flowers.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 寄道

  • 寄draw near; stop inOnキKunよる・よせる
  • 道road-way; streetOnドウ・トウKunみち・いう

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