過ち

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
過
あやま
Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

過(あやま)ち • (ayamachi) 

  1. fault, error, mistake
    • 2005 November 9, Nobuhiro Watsuki, “武(ブ)装(ソウ)錬(レン)金(キン)ファイナル [Armed Alchemy: The Final Act]”, in 武(ブ)装(ソウ)錬(レン)金(キン) [Armed Alchemy], volume 9, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
      あの時(とき)から…錬(れん)金(きん)術(じゅつ)の全(すべ)てを滅(めっ)せようとしてだが果(は)たせず…百(ひゃく)年(ねん)後(のち)の今(いま)目(め)覚(ざ)めてみれば再(ふたた)び…俺(おれ)の時(とき)と〝同(おな)じ過(あやま)ち〟を繰(く)り返(かえ)している
      Ano toki kara… renkinjutsu no subete o messeyō to shite da ga hatasezu… Hyakunennochi no ima mezamete mireba futatabi… ore no toki to〝onaji ayamachi〟o kurikaeshite iru
      Ever since that day… I had vowed to destroy everything alchemy-related, but I failed… Now that I’ve woken up after a hundred years, and what I find… is the same mistake of my time being repeated.
  2. negligence
  3. immorality between a man and a woman; adultery

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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