散蒔く
ばらまく
to scatter; to distribute widely; to hand out money freely
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Examples
床に小銭を散蒔いてしまった。
ゆかにこぜにをばらまいてしまった。
I scattered my coins all over the floor.
ベンは悪意から私の噂を散蒔いた。
ベンはあくいからわたしのうわさをばらまいた。
Ben spread a rumour about me out of malice.
候補者は選挙区に補助金を散蒔いた。
こうほしゃはせんきょくにほじょきんをばらまいた。
The candidate showered his constituency with subsidies.
Common patterns
- 金を散蒔く
- to throw money around
- 噂を散蒔く
- to spread a rumour
- 補助金を散蒔く
- to hand out subsidies indiscriminately
Memory tip
Normally written ばらまく. Beyond literal scattering it is the standard critical term for politicians handing out money — ばらまき政策 is "pork-barrel policy".
Kanji in this word
- 散scatterサン・ち(る)・ち(らす)・ち(らかる)・ち(らかす)
- 蒔Not in the N5–N1 kanji lists
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