Word Meaning しっぺ返し

しっぺがえし shippegaeshi

しっぺ返し is read as しっぺがえし (shippegaeshi) and means returning tit for tat.

Meaning

English

returning tit for tat
retaliating

Reading

Kana

しっぺがえし

Romaji

shippegaeshi

Writing Variants

竹箆返し しっぺいがえし shippeigaeshi
竹箆返し しっぺがえし shippegaeshi
竹篦返し しっぺいがえし shippeigaeshi
竹篦返し しっぺがえし shippegaeshi

Stroke Sequence

5 Characters • 12 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Rank 125168 Priority T

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

折り返し

おりかえし

aliasing (in imaging)

お返し

おかえし

change (in a cash transaction)

取り返し

とりかえし

recovery

切り返し

きりかえし

railway switchback

仕返し

しかえし

doing over again

見返し

みかえし

facing (material sewn on the inside edge of a garment)

中国大返し

ちゅうごくおおがえし

Chūgoku Retaliation (military maneuver by Hideyoshi Hashiba in 1582)

表見返し

おもてみかえし

inside of the front cover (of book)

小手返し

こてがえし

Aikido technique, wherein the opponent is brought down by twisting his or her arm away from the body

一石返し

いっせきがえし

reversing a single stone (othello)

田楽返し

でんがくがえし

device with axle used to change the backdrop of a (kabuki) play

言い返し

いいかえし

replying

Example Sentences

しっぺ返しだよ。

Tit for tat.