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This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

この販売機は百円硬貨しか使えない。

Sentence Analyzer

この 販売機 硬貨 しか 使えない

English Translation

This vending machine takes only hundred-yen coins.

Furigana

この販売機(はんばいき)(ひゃく)(えん)硬貨(こうか)しか使(つか)えない。

Romanji

Kono hanbaiki wa hyaku en kōka shika tsukaenai.

Words

此の (この)
this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)
販売機 (はんばいき)
vending machine
()
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
(ひゃく、もも、はく)
100; hundred
(えん)
yen; Japanese monetary unit; circle
硬貨 (こうか)
coin; hard currency
しか (しか)
only; nothing but
使える (つかえる)
to be usable; to be serviceable; to be useful

Kanji

Reading: ハン
Meanings: marketing, sell, trade
Readings: バイ、 う.る、 う.れる
Meaning: sell
Readings: キ、 はた
Meanings: loom, mechanism, machine, airplane, opportunity, potency, efficacy, occasion
Readings: ヒャク、 ビャク、 もも
Meaning: hundred
Readings: エン、 まる.い、 まる、 まど、 まど.か、 まろ.やか
Meanings: circle, yen, round
Readings: コウ、 かた.い
Meanings: stiff, hard
Readings: カ、 たから
Meanings: freight, goods, property
使
Readings: シ、 つか.う、 つか.い、 -つか.い、 -づか.い
Meanings: use, send on a mission, order, messenger, envoy, ambassador, cause