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侍さむらい
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"
Alt. forms
侍さむらい
75%
サムライ
18%
さむらい
5%
士さむらい
Kanji used
侍
samurai
Pitch accent
さ
むらい
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Used in vocabulary (4 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.)
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.