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    3. 除夜

    除夜

    除じょ夜や

    New Year's Eve

    KMT10News #47+1NounCulture & TraditionsKanji Vocab18 strokes

    じょや

    Noun

    1.
    New Year's Eve

    Stroke 0 / 18

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    除じょ夜やの鐘かねを聞ききました。

    I heard the New Year's Eve bells.

    KMT6Culture & Traditions
    除じょ夜やは家か族ぞくと過すごすのが日に本ほんの伝でん統とうです。

    Spending New Year's Eve with family is a Japanese tradition.

    KMT10Culture & TraditionsFamily & Relationships
    除じょ夜やの夜よ空ぞらには、新あたらしい年としへの期き待たいと過か去こへの感かん謝しゃが入いり混まじっていた。

    In the New Year's Eve sky, anticipation for the new year and gratitude for the past were intertwined.

    KMT10Culture & TraditionsEmotions & Psychology
    除じょ夜やの鐘かねは百ひゃく八はちつ鳴ならされ、煩ぼんの悩うを払はらうと言いわれています。

    The New Year's Eve bells are rung 108 times, said to ward off worldly desires.

    KMT10Culture & TraditionsReligion & Philosophy
    除じょ夜やには年とし越こしそばを食たべる習しゅう慣かんがあります。

    On New Year's Eve, there is a custom of eating toshikoshi soba.

    KMT10Culture & TraditionsFood & DiningDaily Life

    Kanji that make up this word

    除
    のぞ.く・-よ.け…(2)
    exclude・division (x/3)・remove・abolish・cancel…(1)
    夜
    よ・よる…(1)
    night・evening
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