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一辺倒 (いっぺんとう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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He leads a life completely devoted to work.
The politician criticized the foreign policy that is totally biased toward the US.
Usage patterns 〈 事こと 〉 一いっ 辺ぺん 倒とう totally devoted to/fixated on X
His foreign policy is completely oriented toward the United States.
〈 事こと 〉 一いっ 辺ぺん 倒とう になる to become wholly focused on X, losing balance
The company's management policy has become entirely focused on exports.
〈 事こと 〉 一いっ 辺ぺん 倒とう の 姿し 勢せい a one-sided, wholly devoted stance toward X
Kanji 辺 environs, boundary, border 倒 overthrow, fall, collapse Related words 一筋 describes single-minded, often admirable dedication to one path, while 一辺倒 stresses a rigid, sometimes unbalanced fixation on one thing.
偏重 explicitly criticizes an overemphasis or lopsided weighting of something, whereas 一辺倒 can describe strong focus more neutrally.
一辺倒 means leaning exclusively toward one side or approach, often critically, whereas 一色 is a neutral, descriptive way to say something is entirely one thing.
Etymology Compound of 一 (one, single) + 辺 (side, direction) + 倒 (fall, lean). Literally 'leaning entirely to one side', it came to mean being wholly devoted to or fixated on one thing.
The government was criticized for its stance of being wholly pro-American and should reconsider it.