Illustration: In a Japanese home woodworking corner, a craftsperson lays a wooden shelf board on a flat workbench and discovers that its middle arches upward. A rigid straightedge bridges the distorted surface, exposing an obvious uneven gap.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

歪ゆがみ

yugami

distortion, warping

Example sentences

  1. だが、興行会社松竹こうぎょうかいしゃしょうちくの鴈治郎中心がんじろうちゅうしんの興行形態こうぎょうけいたいはさまざまな歪ゆがみを生うんでいく。

    The way the promoter Shochiku ran its performances to center on Ganjiro, however, created various biases and distortions.

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

  2. 合気道あいきどうの稽古けいこは、技わざを左右同さゆうおなじ動うごきで同回数繰どうかいすうくり返かえすため、左右さゆうの身体しんたいの歪ゆがみを取とる効果こうかがある。

    Training in aikido repeats techniques using the same movements for the left and right, repeating them the same number of times, so it effectively resolves distortion between the left and right sides of the body.

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

  3. 似にたような事件じけんが繰くり返かえされる背景はいけいには、社会しゃかいの歪ゆがみが潜ひそんでいるのかもしれない。

    Perhaps underlying distortions in society are behind the recurrence of similar incidents.

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

Kanji in 歪

  • 歪warp; bendOnワイ・エKunいがむ・いびつ・ゆがむ

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