逆さ (Sakasa) is a Japanese adjectival noun meaning “inverted, upside down, reversed, back to front”.
Meanings
- adjectival noun, na-adjective, nouninverted; upside down; reversed; back to front
Examples
弟は絵をさかさに掛けた。
My brother hung the picture upside down.
彼はボールペンを逆さに持った。
He held a ball-point by the wrong end.
誰もその絵が逆さにかかっていることに気がつかなかった。
Nobody noticed that the picture was hung upside down.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).