Vocabulary
ことばじりをとらえる言葉尻を捉える ことばじりをとらえる言葉尻を捉える ことばじりをとらえる言葉尻を捉える

Meaning

to pounce on someone's words to cavil at someone's words and to trip someone up with their own words

Practice Writing

Character: 1/7
Stroke: 1/0

Component Analysis

言葉尻を捉える
to pounce on someone's words, to cavil at someone's words, to trip someone up with their own words
ことばじりをとらえる
言
say, word
い.う, こと, ゲン
口
mouth
くち, コウ, ク
葉
leaf, plane, lobe...
は, ヨウ
艹
( 艸 ) grass, radical number 140
枼
table, flat pieces of wood, slip...
うすいきふだ, まど, ヨウ
世
generation, world, society...
よ, セイ, セ
廿
twenty
にじゅう, ジュウ, ニュウ
十
ten
とお, と, ジュウ
一
one, one radical (no.1)
ひと-, ひと.つ, イチ
丨
number one, line, rod radical (no. 2)
すす.む, しりぞ.く, コン
木
tree, wood
き, こ-, ボク
尻
buttocks, hips, butt...
しり, コウ
尸
corpse, remains, flag radical (no. 44)
かたしろ, シ
九
nine
ここの, ここの.つ, キュウ
丿
katakana no radical (no. 4)
えい, よう, ヘツ
乙
the latter, duplicate, strange...
おと-, きのと, オツ
捉
catch, capture
とら.える, ソク, サク
扌
( 手 ) hand, hand radical (no. 64)
シュ
足
leg, foot, be sufficient...
あし, た.りる, ソク
口
mouth
くち, コウ, ク
龰
書

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