舌（した）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: odaka (tail-high) — high to the end, drops on a following particle (accent on mora 2)
Meaning: tongue
Example sentences
- 熱いスープで舌をやけどした。 — I burned my tongue on the hot soup.
- 猫は舌で体をきれいになめる。 — Cats clean their bodies by licking them with their tongue.
Idioms & proverbs containing “舌”
- 二枚舌 (にまいじた) — double-dealing; duplicity; equivocation; double-tongued
- 駟も舌に及ばず (しもしたにおよばず) — rumors travel faster than a four-horse carriage; a word once uttered cannot be recalled
- 出すことは舌を出すも嫌い (だすことはしたをだすもきらい) — being exceptionally stingy
- 舌先三寸 (したさきさんずん) — eloquence or flattery designed to deceive
- 百舌勘定 (もずかんじょう) — splitting the bill so that the others end up paying the whole amount; wheedling the others into paying the whole bill
- 金口木舌 (きんこうぼくぜつ) — (public) opinion leader
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See it used in real works
- Example sentences from Japanese novels & web fiction (Massif)
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