水際 – Vocabulary details

water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout

際ぎわ

edge; brink; verge; time; moment of

Used in vocabulary (3 in total)

水みず際ぎわだつ

to be splendid; to be superb

水みず際ぎわ作さく戦せん

shoreline protection or operations

水みず際ぎわ対たい策さく

protection measures at ports and airports (against smuggling, disease, etc.)

Examples (2 in total)

子こ供どもたちに水みず際ぎわに近ちかづかないようにいいなさい。

Tell the children to keep away from the water's edge.

馬うまを水みず際ぎわまで連つれて行いくことはできても、水みずを飲のませることはできない。

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

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Pitch accent

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Used in vocabulary (3 in total)

Examples (2 in total)