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濠

ほり

moat, water-filled ditch

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Examples

  1. 城の周りに深い濠がある。

    しろのまわりにふかいほりがある。

    There is a deep moat around the castle.

  2. 濠を渡る橋は一つだけだった。

    ほりをわたるはしはひとつだけだった。

    There was only one bridge crossing the moat.

  3. 夕方、濠の水はとても静かに見えた。

    ゆうがた、ほりのみずはとてもしずかにみえた。

    In the evening the water of the moat looked very still.

Common patterns

城の濠
a castle moat
深い濠
a deep moat
濠を渡る
to cross a moat

Memory tip

Modern Japanese normally writes this word 堀; the variant 濠, with the water radical on the left, stresses that the ditch is filled with water. You will meet it around castles and the Imperial Palace.

Kanji in this word

  • 濠Not in the N5–N1 kanji lists

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