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    3. 八百長

    八百長

    八や百お長ちょう

    match fixing

    KMT9News #30+1NounSports & Martial ArtsKanji Vocab16 strokes

    やおちょう

    Noun

    1.
    match fixing, put-up job, fixed game

    Stroke 0 / 16

    Speed1.0x

    その試し合あいは八や百お長ちょうだったと噂うわさされている。

    It is rumored that the match was fixed.

    KMT7Sports & Martial Arts
    彼かれは八や百お長ちょうに関かん与よしたとして、永えい久きゅう追つい放ほう処しょ分ぶんを受うけた。

    He received a lifetime ban for his involvement in match-fixing.

    KMT9Sports & Martial ArtsPolitics & Law
    相すも撲う界かいでは過か去こに八や百お長ちょう問もん題だいが浮ふ上じょうし、大おおきな騒そう動どうとなった。

    In the sumo world, match-fixing issues emerged in the past, causing a major uproar.

    KMT9Sports & Martial ArtsHistory
    あの政せい治じ家かの当とう選せんは、まるで八や百お長ちょうのような出で来きレースだった。

    That politician's election was like a fixed race, a put-up job.

    KMT9Politics & LawGames
    八や百お長ちょうはスポーツの公こう正せいさを著いちじるしく損そこなう行こう為いであり、厳きびしく罰ばっせられるべきだ。

    Match-fixing is an act that severely undermines the fairness of sports and should be severely punished.

    KMT10Sports & Martial ArtsPolitics & Law

    Kanji that make up this word

    八
    や・や.つ・やっ.つ・よう…(7)
    eight・eight radical (no. 12)
    百
    もも…(11)
    hundred
    長
    なが.い・おさ…(8)
    long・leader・superior・senior
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