撲

Meaning

撲 centers on forceful physical contact: slapping, striking, hitting, or beating. The extended senses of telling or speaking likely come from the idea of delivering a sharp verbal blow or bluntly stating something.

• 相撲すもう
  N4

  sumo (wrestling)

• 撲滅ぼくめつ
  N1

  eradication; extermination; destruction; suppression

• 大相撲おおずもう

  professional sumo wrestling

• 撲殺ぼくさつ

  beat to death

• 打撲だぼく
  N1

  blow; hit (on the body); beating

• 腕相撲うでずもう

  arm wrestling

• 打撲傷だぼくしょう

  bruise; contusion

• 相撲取りすもうとり

  sumo wrestler; rikishi

• 四つ相撲よつずもう

  wrestling in which both wrestlers grasp the other's belt with both hands

• 一人相撲ひとりずもう

  fighting windmills; tilting at windmills

• お相撲さんおすもうさん

  sumo wrestler

• アマ相撲アマずもう

  amateur sumo

• モンゴル相撲モンゴルずもう

  Mongolian wrestling; Mongolian sumo

• 上覧相撲じょうらんずもう

  match held in front of the Emperor

• 人のふんどしで相撲を取るひとのふんどしですもうをとる

  to profit at someone else's expense; to rob Peter to pay Paul; to take risks with other people's money

• 他人のふんどしで相撲を取るたにんのふんどしですもうをとる

  to profit at someone else's expense; to rob Peter to pay Paul; to take risks with other people's money

• 前相撲まえずもう

  preliminary bouts with unranked wrestlers; unranked wrestlers

• 力相撲ちからずもう

  sumo wrestling using strength instead of technique

• 勧進相撲かんじんずもう

  fund-raising tournaments (during the Edo period)

• 台覧相撲たいらんずもう

  wrestling performed in the presence of the empress or crown prince

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