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賭

gamble
Stroke count: 15

Readings

On readingト
Kun readingか.ける、かけ

Verbs with «賭»

賭ける

Meanings

  1. gambleRtK
    彼は賭け事で財産を食いつぶした。He ate up his fortune by gambling.tatoeba
    彼は賭け事で貯金を使い果たした。He cleaned out his saving on betting.tatoeba
  2. wager
  3. bet
    彼は彼女と賭けをした。He made a bet with her.tatoeba
  1. stake

Popular Usage

賭け賭ける

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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shellfish · clam · oyster · eye (目) · animal legs (儿) · eight (八) · someone · puppet · sooty · old man · sun (日) · day (日)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1354

Compound words

彼は賭けをやってとんとんに終わった。
He gambled and broke even.tatoeba

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.

賭けに失敗しても落ちついて損失を受け入れる
かけにしっぱいしてもおちついてそんしつをうけいれるIf a bet fails, calmly accept the loss.
法律がこれらを禁じた後、売春も賭博もこれまでになく繁盛するようになった。
ほうりつがこれらをきんじたのち、ばいしゅんもとばくもこれまでになくはんじょうするようになった。After the law prohibited these things, prostitution and gambling became more prosperous than ever.
今後の動向に賭ける
こんごのどうこうにかけるBetting on future trends.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

15 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 賭

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