Keyword
bitter
Info
FrequencyTop 1400-1500
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel Pre-2
Heisig1875
Old form
Readings
しぶ
(82%)
Composed of
water drops
stop
horns
short legs
Used in vocabulary (49 in total)
reluctantly; unwillingly
astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum
Shibuya, a special ward in Tokyo
Examples (48 in total)
The thief reluctantly admitted his guilt.
He reluctantly agreed to my proposal.
He mentioned to me that he would go shopping in Shibuya.
Which train should I take to go to Shibuya?
We went shopping in Shibuya yesterday.
Let's meet at Shibuya Station at six.
He is very reluctant to accept the invitation.
Tom is reluctant.
"Why were you late?" "Because I got stuck in traffic."
There's a traffic jam ahead. Let's take an alternate route.
If you leave now, I'm sure you'll be caught in a traffic jam.
Because there was traffic, I was late to the meeting.
I was late to the meeting because of a traffic jam.
In spite of the heavy traffic, I managed to get to the airport in time.
I got stuck in traffic.
I think we'll make it in time if we don't get stuck in a traffic jam.
There's no traffic jam.
We got up at dawn to avoid a traffic jam.
The street is clogged with traffic.
The roads are jammed with cars.
I got stuck in heavy traffic on the expressway.
The expressway was congested with thousands of cars.
We missed our plane because of the traffic jam.
Luckily, there wasn't a traffic jam.
The accident caused a traffic jam.
I attributed the delay in delivery to a traffic jam.
If you had left a little earlier, you would have avoided the heavy traffic.
Had they left a little earlier, they would have avoided the traffic jam.
A rush-hour traffic jam delayed my arrival by two hours.
I was caught in a traffic jam.
I was late for the meeting because of a traffic jam.
I was late because of heavy traffic.
Because of a traffic jam, we were late for the meeting.
We were late as a result of the traffic jam.
The traffic jam lasted one hour.
They were stuck for hours in a traffic jam.
She was late because of the heavy traffic.
My father was late for work this morning because of a traffic jam.
We got stuck in a traffic jam, which made us twenty minutes late.
We know how to get around traffic congestion.
We took a back road to avoid the heavy traffic.
We were delayed by traffic congestion, so we had to hurry.
We met a traffic jam on the way.
You have to change trains at Shibuya.
The statue of Hachiko, the faithful dog, stands in front of Shibuya Station.
Nowadays, commuters take traffic jams for granted.
He was reluctant to answer.
I was scouted by a model agency while walking around Shibuya.