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ほんりょう
Meanings
Noun
1. characteristic quality; special character; one's real ability; one's specialty
2. one's function; one's duty
3. fief; inherited estate
Alt. forms
本ほん領りょう
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ほんりょう
Pitch accent
ほ
んりょう
ほ
んりょう
Used in: 3
Composed of
book; volume; this; present; main; head
territory (of country, feudal domain, etc.); (arch.) counter for suits of clothing, sets of armor, etc.
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods)
show one's real ability; illustration of the distinctive character of (something)
to display one's real ability; to show one's real ability; to show one's stuff; to show oneself at one's best; to really shine; to come into one's own