さむらい
Meanings
Noun
Historical
1. warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
Pitch accent
むらい
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Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)
samurai spirit
mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)
Examples (2 in total)
I live by the way of the samurai.
Nowadays there are no ninjas or samurais in Japan.