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kun’yomi

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Noun edit

()() (teire

  1. maintenance; care; repairing; mending; trimming
    ()()()
    ha no teire
    dental care
  2. raid (sudden investigation by police)
    • 1946, 織田作之助, 大阪の憂鬱[1], 青空文庫:
      (さい)(きん)(おお)(さか)(やみ)(いち)()では「(けい)(かい)(けい)(ほう)」「(くう)(しゅう)(けい)(ほう)」という(こと)()(ささや)かれている。しかし(せん)(そう)(ちゅう)(はなし)をしているのではない、(けい)(さつ)()()のことを「(けい)(ほう)」という(いん)()(でん)(たつ)しているのである。どんなに(ごく)()にされた(ぬき)()ちの()()でも、()(ぜん)()れる。
      Saikin Ōsaka no yamīchiba de wa “keikai keihō”“kūshū keihō” to iu kotoba ga sasayakarete iru. Shikashi sensōchū no hanashi o shite iru no de wa nai, keisatsu no teire no koto o “keihō” to iu ingo de dentatsu shite iru no de aru. Donna ni gokuhi ni sareta nukiuchi no teire de mo, jizen ni moreru.
      Recently, in Osaka's black market, people have been whispering the words “precautionary alert” and “air-raid alert”. But they are not talking about the war; they are informing each other of police raids using the code word “alert”. No matter how top secret a surprise raid is, information about it leaks beforehand.

Verb edit

()()する (teire surutransitive suru (stem ()() (teire shi), past ()()した (teire shita))

  1. to maintain; to take care of; to repair; to mend; to trim
  2. (for police) to raid

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References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN