洒落

しゃれ
joke, pun, witticism

Reading

Readingしゃれ
N2 VocabJLPT N2
Kanji洒落

Meanings

  1. joke
  2. pun
  3. witticism
  1. jestn.
  2. wordplay
  3. smartly dressedadj-na
  4. stylish
  5. fashion-conscious
  6. refined

Synonyms

お洒落

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

大層粋な駄洒落だからである
たいそういきなだじゃれだからであるBecause it is a very stylish pun.
少しは洒落のひびきが通じようというものである
すこしはしゃれのひびきがつうじようというものであるAt least something of the pun should come across.
ブルーの小皿に乗った青いアイスは未来的な感じがした。少しお洒落でもあった。
ぶるーのこざらにのったあおいあいすはみらいてきなかんじがした。すこしおしゃれでもあった。The blue ice cream on a little blue plate looked futuristic. A bit stylish, too.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 洒落

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked