見当 – Vocabulary details

見けん当とう

Noun

1. estimate; guess; conjecture; aim

だが、僕ぼくにはそれが誰だれなのか、見けん当とうもつかなかった。But I had no idea who it was.

2. direction; bearings

駅えきはたしかこの見けん当とうにある。If I remember right, the station is in this direction.

3. registration mark (printing)

Suffix

4. approximately; about; around

see

hit (the target)

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view (of life, etc.); outlook

this; our; right; justice; checking account

to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)

having not the slightest idea

wrong (guess or estimate); misdirected; irrelevant; off the point

あなたが何なにを探さがしているのか見けん当とうもつかなかった。

I had no idea what you were looking for.

どれだけの候こう補ほがいるか見けん当とうもつかなかった。

I had no idea how many candidates there were.

駅えきはたしかこの見けん当とうにある。

If I remember right, the station is in this direction.

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