さむらい
Meanings
Noun
Historical
1. warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
2. man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer
when read as "さぶらい"
Kanji used
samurai
Pitch accent
むらい
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Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)
mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)
Polyergus samurai (species of amazon ant)
Examples (2 in total)
I live by the way of the samurai.
Nowadays there are no ninjas or samurais in Japan.