表層形
セキ払い
セキバライ
名詞
セキ払い (セキバライ)
Sekibarai · せきばらい — clearing one's throat, cough
Other ways to say “clearing one's throat” in Japanese →
セキ払い in rōmaji: sekibarai.
名詞
普通名詞
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📝 咳払い 🔤 * 📐 *
Updated: 2026年8月14日
📖 Grammar Information
| 表層形 (Surface) |
セキ払い
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| 見出し語 (Lemma) |
咳払い
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| 読み (Reading) |
セキバライ
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| 品詞 (POS) |
名詞・普通名詞・サ変可能・*
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| 活用型 (Conj. Type) |
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| 活用形 (Conj. Form) |
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| 表記 (Orthography) |
セキ払い
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| 読み・基本形 |
セキバライ
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| 表記・基本形 |
セキ払い
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| 見出し語の読み |
セキバライ
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💡 English Meaning
セキ払い means “clearing one's throat, cough” — full definition & examples →
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セキバライ
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The surface form (セキ払い) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (咳払い) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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The reading shows the pronunciation in hiragana or katakana as recorded by UniDic. For kanji entries this is the standard reading of this specific surface form — which may differ from other readings of the same kanji.
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