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shikashi
conjunction

Alternate Written Forms:

[しか()·]
shikashi
[しか()·]
shikashi

English Meaning(s) for しかし

conjunction
  1. however; but

Stroke Order Diagrams for しかし

Sample Sentences for しかし

But he slept like a baby.
In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
Silence is golden, but not when trying to learn a foreign language.
He is a good fellow, to be sure, but he isn't reliable.
But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

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