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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of カス – see the following entry.
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| 【かす】
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- 粕, 糟: in sake production, the dregs or lees left over after extracting the liquid from the fermented rice mash
- 滓, 渣: the sediment, impurities, dregs, or lees on the bottom of a container after a liquid has settled
- 滓, 渣: anything left over after everything useful or good has been extracted
- 滓, 渣: (derogatory) insulting reference to a person
- 滓, 渣: (playing cards) in 花札 (hanafuda, “traditional Japanese flower playing cards”), a one-point card, a garbage card
- 粕, 糟: (figurative) a scolding, terrible criticism (only used in this sense in the set phrase 粕を食う, 糟を食う (kasu o kuu, literally “to eat the dregs”))
Alternative spellings粕, 糟, 滓, 渣
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| (This term, カス (kasu), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)
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