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There are 13 total results for your 見せる search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

見せる

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 miseru
    みせる
(transitive verb) (1) to show; to display; (transitive verb) (2) to make (something or someone) look ...; to present an appearance of ...; (transitive verb) (3) to make (something) worth watching; to be entertaining; (aux-v,v1) (4) (after the -te form of a verb) to make a show of (doing); to do in a conspicuous manner; to do in view of others; (aux-v,v1) (5) (after the -te form of a verb) to resolve to do; to do at any cost; to show others that one will ...

姿を見せる

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 sugataomiseru
    すがたをみせる
(exp,v1) to show up; to appear; to turn up

男を見せる

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 otokoomiseru
    おとこをみせる
(exp,v1) to show off one's manliness; to act like a (real) man

顔を見せる

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 kaoomiseru
    かおをみせる
(exp,v1) to make an appearance

力んで見せる

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 rikindemiseru
    りきんでみせる
(Ichidan verb) to show a bold front

後ろを見せる

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 ushiroomiseru
    うしろをみせる
(exp,v1) to turn one's back (on the enemy)

目に物見せる

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 menimonomiseru
    めにものみせる
(exp,v1) to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do

手の内を見せる

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 tenouchiomiseru / tenochiomiseru
    てのうちをみせる
(exp,v1) (idiom) to reveal one's true intentions; to show one's cards

目にもの見せる

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 menimonomiseru
    めにものみせる
(exp,v1) to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do

敵に後ろを見せる

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 tekiniushiroomiseru
    てきにうしろをみせる
(exp,v1) (1) to flee from one's enemy; to turn tail; (exp,v1) (2) to expose one's weakness to an adversary

Variations:
見せる(P)
観せる(sK)

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 miseru
    みせる
(transitive verb) (1) to show; to display; (transitive verb) (2) to make (something or someone) look ...; to present an appearance of ...; (transitive verb) (3) to make (something) worth watching; to be entertaining; (transitive verb) (4) to have (something) looked at (by a specialist); to have (an antique, etc.) appraised; (transitive verb) (5) (also written as 診せる) to have (an injury, person, etc.) looked at (by a doctor); to take (someone) to a doctor; (aux-v,v1) (6) (after the -te form of a verb) to make a show of (doing); to do in a conspicuous manner; to do in view of others; (aux-v,v1) (7) (after the -te form of a verb) to resolve to do; to do at any cost; to show others that one will ...

Variations:
目に物見せる
目にもの見せる

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 menimonomiseru
    めにものみせる
(exp,v1) (idiom) to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do

Variations:
顔を見せる
顔をみせる(sK)

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 kaoomiseru
    かおをみせる
(exp,v1) to make an appearance
This page contains 13 results for "見せる" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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