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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.
I call architecture frozen music.
A man calling himself Tanaka came to see me.
He called himself an Edison of Japan.
There are people who call their wives or lovers goddesses, you know.
Currently, there are three facilities referred to as academies.
My grandmother had a habit of cramming things away under the guise of tidying up.
Some people might call that very line the staircase to heaven.