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称しょうする
Meanings
Verb (する, transitive)
1. to call; to name
There are people who call their wives or lovers goddesses, you know.
2. to call oneself ...; to go by the name of ...
He proclaimed himself king.
3. to purport (to be); to profess; to claim; to pretend; to feign
My grandmother had a habit of cramming things away under the guise of tidying up.
4. to praise; to applaud
Alt. forms
称しょうする
99%
稱しょうする
Kanji used
称
claim a title
Pitch accent
しょ
うす
る
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Conjugations...Used in: 2368
Composed of
to call; to name; to call oneself ...; to go by the name of ...; to purport (to be); to profess
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
to class (one thing with another); to rank (with); to respect (two things) the same; to see as comparable; to hold in equally high esteem
to feign illness; to pretend to be ill
Examples (10 in total)
He proclaimed himself king.
Rye was called the grain of poverty.
She calls herself a writer.
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