しょうめん – Vocabulary details

しょうめん

Meanings

Adjective (の)

Noun

Prefix

1. front; frontage; facade; main

そしてバイクは建たて物ものの正しょう面めんに急きゅう停てい止しした。And the motorcycle came to a sudden stop in front of the building.

Alt. forms

正しょう面めん

99%

しょうめん

Pitch accent

しょ

うめ

ん

Used in: 14

Composed of

しょう

exactly; precisely; (arch.) correct; (arch.) right; (arch.) greater (of equal court ranks); (arch.) upper

めん

face; mask; face guard; striking the head (in kendo); surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect

Used in vocabulary (14 in total)

しょうめんから

(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front

ましょうめん

directly opposite; right in front

まっしょうめん

directly opposite; right in front

しょうめんげんかん

front entrance; front door

しょうめんきって

openly; squarely; directly; to a person's face

しょうめんしょうとつ

head-on collision

しょうめんとっぱ

breaking the front line; frontal breakthrough

two-front war

frontal attack

front view

front elevation

side seating (to stage right in noh); centerstage right (noh)

せんとうしょうめんはば

frontage

かみのしょうめんほとけのましり

put your household shrine in a high position in the front of the house and your Buddhist altar in the back

Examples (6 in total)

しょうめん近ちかくの席せきに座すわりたいのですが。

I'd like to sit near the front.

いつの間まにかしょうめんに回まわり込こまれていたらしい。

Apparently, someone had circled around to the front without me noticing.

しょうめんの壁かべにはもうひとつ扉とびらがついていた。

There was another door on the front wall.