Illustration: Inside a rural Japanese pottery workshop, an apprentice holds a newly finished bowl bearing a simple crest shaped like a mountain with a conspicuous split summit. The older potter points through the open window at the actual mountain, whose unusual outline matches the crest precisely.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

由ゆ来らい

yurai

to derive from, to originate from

Example sentences

  1. この単語たんごはラテン語ごに由来ゆらいしている。

    This word is derived from Latin.

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  2. 多おおくの英単語えいたんごはラテン語ごに由来ゆらいする。

    Many English words are derived from Latin.

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  3. このパレードは古ふるい儀式ぎしきに由来ゆらいしている。

    This parade descends from an ancient rite.

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Kanji in 由来

  • 由wherefore; a reasonOnユ・ユウ・ユイKunよし・よる
  • 来come; dueOnライ・タイKunくる・きたる・きたす

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