刺さる – Vocabulary details

刺ささる

Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)

1. to stick into (of something with a sharp point); to prick; to pierce; to get stuck (in); to lodge (in)

彼かれの後うしろの壁かべに、銀ぎん色いろの小ちいさなナイフのようなものが刺ささった。Something like a small silver knife stuck into the wall behind him.

2. to resonate emotionally; to move

その言こと葉ばは、わたしの胸むねにも刺ささる。Those words hit home for me, too.

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to stick (into); to pierce; to enter at full speed; to hit (e.g. the catcher's mitt) at speed

to be hurtful; to resonate emotionally (with one)

to be hurtful; to resonate emotionally (with one)

正しょう直じき、すっごい刺ささったんだよね。

Honestly, it really struck a chord with me.

矢やは全すべて床ゆかに刺ささった。

All the arrows stuck into the floor.

喉のどに刺ささった棘とげみたいに。

Like a thorn stuck in your throat.

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