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    3. 食い上げ

    食い上げ

    食くい​上あげ​

    losing one's means of livelihood

    NTNounWork & CareerKanji Vocab19 strokes

    くいあげ

    Noun

    1.
    losing one's means of livelihood
    2.
    suspension of a samurai's annual rice stipend
    historical term
    3.
    fish swimming upwards after biting a fishhook

    Stroke 0 / 19

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    Characters that make up this word

    食
    く.う・く.らう・た.べる・は.む…(3)
    eat・food
    Kanji
    上
    うえ・-うえ・うわ-・かみ・あ.げる・-あ.げる…(22)
    above・up
    Kanji
    い
    i
    Kana
    げ
    ge
    Kana
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