釣
つり
fishing, angling; change (money returned for a purchase)
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Examples
今度の日曜、釣りに行きませんか。
こんどのにちよう、つりにいきませんか。
Shall we go fishing this Sunday?
お釣りは要りません。
おつりはいりません。
Keep the change.
父は毎週、朝早くから川へ釣りに出かけます。
ちちはまいしゅう、あさはやくからかわへつりにでかけます。
Every week my father sets off early to fish in the river.
Common patterns
- 釣りに行く
- go fishing
- お釣り
- change (from a payment)
- 魚釣り
- fishing (for fish)
Memory tip
Two everyday senses grow out of 釣る "to hook, to pull in": 釣り is fishing, and お釣り is the change hooked back from your payment. Normally written with the okurigana as 釣り.
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