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臍

臍: navel

navel; belly button
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Readings

On
セイ・サイ
Kun
へそ・ほぞ

へそ in daily speech; ほぞ in the idiom 臍を噛む (to regret bitterly); さいたい in the medical word 臍帯 (umbilical cord).

Key words

臍へそnavel
臍の緒へそのおumbilical cord
臍を噛むほぞをかむto bitterly regret
臍帯さいたいumbilical cord (medical)

Example sentences

The baby's umbilical cord is kept carefully in a paulownia box.

I'm kicking myself now, wishing I had stopped back then.

After the birth, the doctor cut the umbilical cord and placed the baby on its mother's chest.

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