Definition of ことで
- (n) koto (13-stringed Japanese zither)
- stringed instrument
- zheng (Chinese zither); guzheng
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(n) ancient city; former capital
この古都に何か新しいものがあることは、だれでも知っている。
Everyone knows that there is something new in this old capital.
- (n) thing; matter
- incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
- circumstances; situation; state of affairs
- work; business; affair
- after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
- (n-suf) nominalizing suffix
- pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...
- (n) dui (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: swamp, west)
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(n) word; remark; statement
彼の言に従って行動するのはりこうではない。
It is not wise to go by his word.
- (prt) particle indicating a command
- particle indicating mild enthusiasm
- particle indicating a gentle interrogative
- particle used to soften a judgment or conclusion
