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別火

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 別火.

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Entry

別火っかつびNounFreq #300784
1

cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from one's everyday fire for performing Shinto rites; cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from mourning people, menstruating women, etc.

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Kanji in this Word

separate, branch off, diverge, fork, another, extra, specially

7 strokesFrequency 214JLPT N3Grade 4

On

ベツ

Kun

わか.れるわ.ける

Nanori

べっ

fire

4 strokesFrequency 574JLPT N4Grade 1

On

Kun

-びほ-

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