Ashigakari

Other forms:

足掛かり (Ashigakari) is a Japanese noun meaning “foothold, footing, toehold, stepping stone”.

Meanings

  1. nounfoothold; footing; toehold; stepping stone

Examples

  • I have made a foothold.

  • We just got to first base.

Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).

Kanji in 足掛かり

leghang

Related words

footto add (numbers)(sound of) footstepsto hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall)to be sufficientto take (a resource, e.g. time or money)to be sufficientsubsection headto startto go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing)to (happen to) seesatisfaction