しゃみせん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しゃみせん – see the following entry.
【三味線】
[noun] [from 1580] a Japanese stringed instrument played by plucking, vaguely similar to a banjo
[noun] [after 1780] short for 三味線草 (shamisen-gusa): the shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris
[noun] [after 1780] from 三味線を弾く (shamisen o hiku, literally “to play the shamisen”): words or actions intended to deceive one's opponent in a game or competition
[noun] [from 1930] (academia, slang) a grade of 甲 (kō, highest mark, equivalent to an “A” in US schools) (from the vague visual similarity between the character 甲 and the shape of the shamisen)
(This term, しゃみせん (shamisen), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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