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釣

つり

fishing, angling; change (money returned for a purchase)

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Examples

  1. 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?

  2. お釣りは要りません。

    おつりはいりません。

    Keep the change.

  3. 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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