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井底 (せいてい, seitei) Japanese meaning: well bottom | Kotomora
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Related words 井い 戸ど 井戸 is the common word for 'well' (the structure), while 井底 specifically refers to the bottom of a well or a metaphorical narrow space.
井せい 底てい の 蛙かわず The full idiom meaning 'a person of limited outlook'; 井底 alone carries the same figurative sense but is less common in isolation.
Etymology Compound of 井 (well) and 底 (bottom). The figurative sense derives from the classical Chinese idiom 井底之蛙 (a frog at the bottom of a well).
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彼かれ は 井せい 底てい の よう な 狭せま い 世せ 界かい で 育そだ っ た 。
He grew up in a narrow world like the bottom of a well.
