# Terms

expression: 本當
reading: ほんと
tags: adj-na adv n
glossary:
(oK) (ik) (adj-na,adv,n) truth; reality; actuality; fact; (adj-na,adv) proper; right; correct; official; genuine; authentic; natural; veritable


expression: 本當
reading: ほんとう
tags: adj-na adv n
glossary:
(oK) (adj-na,adv,n) truth; reality; actuality; fact; (adj-na,adv) proper; right; correct; official; genuine; authentic; natural; veritable


expression: 翻す
reading: ひるがえす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to turn over; to turn around; to change (one's mind); to reverse (one's decision); to take back (one's words); to fly (flag, etc.); to wave (skirt, cape, etc.); (P)


expression: 翻る
reading: ひるがえる
tags: P v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to flutter (in the wind); to wave; to flap; to fly; to turn over; to flip over; to suddenly change (attitude, opinion, etc.); to suddenly switch; to alter; to flip; (P)


expression: 翻訳語
reading: ほんやくご
tags: n
glossary:
(n) term used in translation; translation equivalent; word borrowed and translated from another language


expression: 翻弄
reading: ほんろう
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) trifling with; toying with; playing with; making sport of; making fun of; leading around by the nose; tossing about (a ship); (P)


expression: 摩する
reading: さする
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(io) (v5r,vt) to pat; to stroke; to rub off; to polish; to grind; to graze; to scrape; to be equal to; to be about to reach


expression: 摩る
reading: さする
tags: P v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to pat; to stroke; to rub off; to polish; to grind; to graze; to scrape; to be equal to; to be about to reach; (P)


expression: 摩る
reading: する
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to file; to frost (glass); to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)


expression: 魔
reading: ま
tags: P n n-suf
glossary:
(n) demon; devil; evil spirit; evil influence; (n-suf) someone who (habitually) performs some (negative) act; (P)


expression: 魔が差す
reading: まがさす
tags: exp v5s
glossary:
(exp,v5s) to be possessed by an evil spirit; to be tempted; to give in to an urge; to succumb to temptation


expression: 麻の中の蓬
reading: あさのなかのよもぎ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) if even the most crooked person is surrounded by good people, he will straighten up as does mugwort growing in a hemp field


expression: 麻呂
reading: まろ
tags: n pn suf
glossary:
(pn) (arch) I; me; (n) (person having) thin or shaved eyebrows; (suf) affectionate suffix for names of young men or pets


expression: 埋める
reading: うずめる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to cover; to bury (e.g. one's face in hands); to submerge; to fill (completely); to stuff; to pack; to cram; to fill up; (P)


expression: 埋める
reading: うめる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to fill (a seat, a vacant position); to fill out; to plug gaps; to stop a gap; to make amends; to cover up for something; to put cold water in a bath; to cover; to scatter something over; (P)


expression: 埋め尽くす
reading: うめつくす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to fill to capacity; to pack; to complete; to cram; to cover completely; to blanket; to fill out; to fill in; (math) to tessellate


expression: 妹
reading: いも
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) (fam) darling (only of a woman); dear; honey; my betrothed; (arch) one's sister; (arch) (fam) (fem) friend


expression: 妹背鳥
reading: いもせどり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (obsc) any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits); lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)


expression: 枚数
reading: まいすう
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) the number of flat things; (sumo) win-loss difference which influences the ranking of wrestlers; (P)


expression: 幕があく
reading: まくがあく
tags: exp v5k
glossary:
(exp,v5k) to start an act (of a play); to have curtains open; to have an (event, period of history, etc.) start


expression: 幕の内
reading: まくのうち
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (abbr) box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables); (sumo) highest-ranking division; intermission (between acts); interlude


expression: 幕屋
reading: まくや
tags: n
glossary:
(n) tent; tabernacle; small curtain-enclosed area (off a stage); Makuya (Original Gospel Movement of Japan)


expression: 幕下付け出し
reading: まくしたつけだし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (sumo) very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division


expression: 幕開
reading: まくあき
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) the rise of the curtain; opening (of play); beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)


expression: 幕開き
reading: まくあき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the rise of the curtain; opening (of play); beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)


expression: 幕開け
reading: まくあけ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) the rise of the curtain; opening (of play); beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.); (P)


expression: 枕芸者
reading: まくらげいしゃ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) geisha whose talents are limited to the bedroom; geisha who steals money from sleeping travellers


expression: 枕言葉
reading: まくらことば
tags: n
glossary:
(n) pillow word (decorative word used prefixally in classical Japanese literature); preface; introduction


expression: 枕籍
reading: ちんしゃ
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n) (arch) bedding; bed; (n,vs) (arch) to sleep together in the same bed; (arch) to sleep together using each other's bodies as pillow; (arch) to sleep together using books as a pillow


expression: 鮪
reading: しび
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) tuna (edible fish, Thunnus spp.); tunny; (uk) Pacific bluefin tuna (edible fish, Thunnus orientalis)


expression: 鮪
reading: まぐろ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (uk) tuna (edible fish, Thunnus spp.); tunny; (uk) Pacific bluefin tuna (edible fish, Thunnus orientalis); (sl) (vulg) (uk) dead lay; person who is inactive during sexual intercourse; (P)


expression: 桝形
reading: ますがた
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) square (shape); (in a castle) rectangular space between the inner and outer gates (where troops can gather)


expression: 末
reading: すえ
tags: P adj-no n n-t
glossary:
(n) tip; top; (n-t) end; close (e.g. close of the month); (n,adj-no) youngest child; (n) descendants; offspring; posterity; (n-t) future; finally; (n,adj-no) trivialities; (P)


expression: 末期
reading: まっき
tags: P adj-f n
glossary:
(n) closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; end-of-life (care, decision making, etc.); (adj-f) terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final; (P)


expression: 末期養子
reading: まつごようし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed


expression: 末季
reading: まっき
tags: adj-f n
glossary:
(n) closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; end-of-life (care, decision making, etc.); (adj-f) terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final


expression: 末成
reading: うらなり
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe); weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man; pallid man


expression: 末成り
reading: うらなり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe); weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man; pallid man


expression: 末席を汚す
reading: ばっせきをけがす
tags: exp v5s
glossary:
(exp,v5s) (hum) to attend a meeting; to have the honor of being present at a meeting; to soil the lowest seat by one's presence


expression: 末那識
reading: まなしき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) manas-vijnana (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self)


expression: 末葉
reading: すえば
tags: n n-adv n-t
glossary:
(n,n-adv,n-t) end leaves; top leaves; last leaves; (n) the last descendant; the last days of any age; end; close


expression: 迄
reading: まで
tags: P prt
glossary:
(prt) (uk) until (a time); till; to; up to; (uk) to (a place); as far as; (uk) to (an extent); up to; so far as; even; (uk) only; merely; (P)


expression: 迄も
reading: までも
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (uk) to (an extent); up to; so far as; even; (uk) doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ...; (uk) even if ...


expression: 万が一
reading: まんがいち
tags: P adv exp
glossary:
(exp,adv) if by any chance; just in case; in the worst case; in the unlikely event that; 10000 to 1; (P)


expression: 万感胸に迫る
reading: ばんかんむねにせまる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) to be filled with thousand emotions; to be overwhelmed by a flood of emotions; to be wrought by a thousand emotions


expression: 万才
reading: ばんざい
tags: int n
glossary:
(int,n) crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture); something worthy of celebration; giving up; (arch) long time; (arch) eternal life (and prosperity); (int) banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)


expression: 万才
reading: ばんぜい
tags: int n
glossary:
(int,n) crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture); something worthy of celebration; (arch) long time; (arch) eternal life (and prosperity); (int) banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)


expression: 万才
reading: まんざい
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit); comic dialogue


expression: 万歳
reading: ばんざい
tags: P int n
glossary:
(int,n) crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture); something worthy of celebration; giving up; (arch) long time; (arch) eternal life (and prosperity); (int) banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray); (P)


expression: 万緑一紅
reading: ばんりょくいっこう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) one red flower standing out in a sea of green vegetation; one item of quality standing out among many; one woman among many men


expression: 万緑叢中紅一点
reading: ばんりょくそうちゅうこういってん
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (arch) one red flower standing out in a sea of green vegetation; one item of quality standing out among many; one woman among many men


expression: 満たす
reading: みたす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to satisfy; to fulfill; to appease; to fill (e.g. a cup); to pack; to reach (a certain number); (P)


expression: 満を持す
reading: まんをじす
tags: exp v5s
glossary:
(exp,v5s) to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to bide one's time; to wait until the time is ripe


expression: 満を持する
reading: まんをじする
tags: exp vs-s
glossary:
(exp,vs-s) to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to wait until the time is ripe


expression: 満漢偶数官制
reading: まんかんぐうすうかんせい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Qing-dynasty system assigning equal numbers of Manchurians and Han Chinese to central government agencies


expression: 満足
reading: まんぞく
tags: P adj-na n vs
glossary:
(adj-na,n,vs) satisfaction; contentment; complacency; (adj-na,n) sufficient; enough; adequate; proper; (P)


expression: 満目荒涼
reading: まんもくこうりょう
tags: adj-t adv-to
glossary:
(adj-t,adv-to) all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see


expression: 漫り
reading: みだり
tags: adj-na
glossary:
(adj-na) (arch) selfish; with disregard for order or rules; (arch) reckless; rash; careless; (arch) loose; bawdy; (arch) irrational; illogical


expression: 漫ろ
reading: すずろ
tags: adj-na adv
glossary:
(ok) (adj-na) restless; on edge (and unable to concentrate); distracted; (adv) (of an emotional or psychological state) for some reason


expression: 漫ろ
reading: そぞろ
tags: adj-na adv
glossary:
(adj-na) restless; on edge (and unable to concentrate); distracted; (adv) (of an emotional or psychological state) for some reason


expression: 漫才
reading: まんざい
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit); comic dialogue; (P)


expression: 蔓
reading: つる
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) vine; bine; tendril; runner; bow; temple arm; sidepiece; lug arm; earpiece; part of a pair of glasses that goes over the ear; connections; contacts; influence; financial supporter


expression: 味
reading: あじ
tags: P adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) flavor; flavour; taste; charm; style; experience; (adj-na) smart; clever; witty; strange; (P)


expression: 味のある
reading: あじのある
tags: adj-f exp
glossary:
(exp,adj-f) interesting (person, personality, manner); tasteful; pleasantly different; charming; (exp) to have an interest (in something)


expression: 味噌
reading: みそ
tags: P n n-pref n-suf
glossary:
(n) (food) miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; key (main) point; good part (of something); (n,n-pref,n-suf) (derog) weakling; weak person; (P)


expression: 味噌たき
reading: みそたき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) annual event of miso-making; first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation


expression: 味噌っかす
reading: みそっかす
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) miso lees; miso strainings; miso dregs; (uk) child who is made light of; child who is left out of games; immature child or person; good-for-nothing


expression: 未だ
reading: いまだ
tags: adj-na adv
glossary:
(adv) (uk) as yet; hitherto; only; still; (uk) not yet (with negative verb); (uk) more; besides; (adj-na) (uk) unfinished; incomplete; not yet finished with


expression: 未だ
reading: まだ
tags: P adj-na adv
glossary:
(adv) (uk) as yet; hitherto; only; still; (uk) not yet (with negative verb); (uk) more; besides; (adj-na) (uk) unfinished; incomplete; not yet finished with; (P)


expression: 未通女
reading: おぼこ
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(gikun) (adj-na,n) (uk) innocent (esp. of a girl); naive; inexperienced; (n) (uk) virgin; maiden; (uk) young striped mullet


expression: 巳の日の祓
reading: みのひのはらえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar


expression: 密着
reading: みっちゃく
tags: P n s vs
glossary:
(n,vs) glued to; closely related to; giving total coverage to the key figure(s) of a TV or film documentary; (P)


expression: 蜜
reading: みち
tags: n
glossary:
(ok) (n) nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)


expression: 蜜
reading: みつ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple); (P)


expression: 脈診
reading: みゃくしん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) diagnostic sphygmopalpation (in traditional Chinese medicine); medical diagnosis performed by feeling one's pulse


expression: 妙法
reading: みょうほう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) mysteries; excellent methods; (Buddh) marvelous law of Buddha; Saddharma; (Buddh) Lotus Sutra; teachings of the Lotus Sutra


expression: 民間外交
reading: みんかんがいこう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) popular diplomacy; public diplomacy; people's diplomacy; diplomacy carried out by non-government officials


expression: 民間企業
reading: みんかんきぎょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) private enterprise; private business; private company; private firm; private-sector business; private-sector corporation


expression: 民部省
reading: みんぶしょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Ministry of Popular Affairs (1869-1871); Ministry of Popular Affairs (under the ritsuryo system)


expression: 夢判断
reading: ゆめはんだん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) interpretation of dreams; dream reading; oneirocriticism; oneiroscopy; The Interpretation of Dreams (book by Sigmund Freud, 1900)


expression: 無い
reading: ない
tags: P adj-i aux-adj
glossary:
(adj-i) (uk) nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; (aux-adj) not ...; to not be...; to have not ...; (P)


expression: 無いと
reading: ないと
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (uk) (abbr) (col) (after negative base of verb) have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary


expression: 無いといけない
reading: ないといけない
tags: adj-i exp
glossary:
(exp,adj-i) (uk) (after negative base of verb) have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary


expression: 無い袖は振れぬ
reading: ないそではふれぬ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) you can't give (use) what you don't have; nothing comes from nothing; you can't shake sleeves you don't have


expression: 無うなる
reading: のうなる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)


expression: 無き
reading: なき
tags: adj-f suf
glossary:
(adj-f,suf) (uk) -less (often used after one word to modify another, e.g. soulless body); lacking; non-existing


expression: 無きゃ
reading: なきゃ
tags: suf
glossary:
(suf) (uk) (col) unless one ...; if one does not ...; (uk) (col) (abbr) cannot do without something; (after negative base of verb) have to do


expression: 無きゃいけない
reading: なきゃいけない
tags: P exp
glossary:
(exp) (uk) cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; (after negative base of verb) have to do; (P)


expression: 無くてはならない
reading: なくてはならない
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (uk) cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; (after negative base of verb) have to do


expression: 無くなる
reading: なくなる
tags: P v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) (uk) to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; (uk) to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to be reduced to zero; to not occur any more; (uk) to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence); (P)


expression: 無ければ
reading: なければ
tags: exp suf
glossary:
(exp) (uk) if it does not exist; if it is not there; if it is not ...; (suf) (uk) unless one ...; if one does not ...


expression: 無暗
reading: むやみ
tags: adj-na adv-to n
glossary:
(ateji) (adj-na,n) (uk) thoughtless; reckless; rash; indiscriminate; indiscreet; (adj-na,adv-to,n) (uk) excessive; unreasonable; immoderate; absurd


expression: 無暗に
reading: むやみに
tags: adv
glossary:
(ateji) (adv) (uk) thoughtlessly; recklessly; rashly; indiscriminately; indiscreetly; at random; (uk) excessively; unreasonably; immoderately; absurdly


expression: 無闇に
reading: むやみに
tags: P adv
glossary:
(ateji) (adv) (uk) thoughtlessly; recklessly; rashly; indiscriminately; indiscreetly; at random; (uk) excessively; unreasonably; immoderately; absurdly; (P)


expression: 無闇やたら
reading: むやみやたら
tags: adj-na adv-to n n-adv
glossary:
(ateji) (adj-na,n,n-adv,adv-to) (uk) thoughtless; reckless; rash; indiscriminate; indiscreet; (uk) excessive; unreasonable; immoderate; absurd


expression: 無為自然
reading: むいしぜん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) abandoning artifice and just being oneself; doing nothing and taking things as they come; (Buddh) unconditioned nature; unconditioned spontaneity


expression: 無為無能
reading: むいむのう
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(n,adj-na) idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time


expression: 無縁
reading: むえん
tags: P adj-na adj-no n
glossary:
(adj-no,adj-na,n) unrelated; irrelevant; indifferent; (adj-no,n) without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; (Buddh) unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha; (P)


expression: 無我
reading: むが
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) selflessness; self-effacement; self-renunciation; (Buddh) anatman (no-self, the Buddhist concept that in nothing does there exist an inherent self, soul, or ego); (P)


expression: 無間地獄
reading: むけんじごく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering


expression: 無器用
reading: ぶきよう
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) clumsy; awkward; unskillfulness; lack of ability; tactless; awkward (e.g. socially); gauche; (arch) mean; cowardly; base


expression: 無許可
reading: むきょか
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(adj-no) unauthorized; without permission; unapproved; (n) lack of permission; absence of authorization


expression: 無策無為
reading: むさくむい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) donothingism; do-nothing, plan-nothing (government, etc.); being an idle onlooker taking no steps to meet the situation


expression: 無事終了
reading: ぶじしゅうりょう
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) ending without incident; being successfully brought to completion; finishing something without a hitch


expression: 無実
reading: むじつ
tags: P adj-no n
glossary:
(n) absence of the fact; insubstantiality; innocence; guiltlessness; (adj-no) innocent; guiltless; false; untrue; (P)


expression: 無射
reading: ぶえき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (in China) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C); ninth month of the lunar calendar


expression: 無手勝流
reading: むてかつりゅう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) winning without fighting; method used to win without fighting; one's own way of doing things (i.e. as different from that of one's instructor); (col) Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)


expression: 無所得
reading: むしょとく
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-no) having no income; (n) (Buddh) state of nonattachment; lack of attachment; not seeking anything


expression: 無常迅速
reading: むじょうじんそく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times


expression: 無心
reading: むしん
tags: P adj-na adj-no n vs vt
glossary:
(adj-na,n,adj-no) innocence; insentient (i.e. plants, inanimate objects, etc.); (Buddh) free from obstructive thoughts; (vs,vt) to pester someone (for cash, etc.); (P)


expression: 無双仕立
reading: むそうじたて
tags: n
glossary:
(n) making a piece of clothing with the same cloth inside and out; making a kimono with lining of the same fabric


expression: 無想無念
reading: むそうむねん
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-no) being free from all distracting thoughts; keeping one's mind clear of all worldly thoughts; being free from all ideas and thoughts


expression: 無体
reading: むたい
tags: adj-na adj-no n
glossary:
(adj-na,n,adj-no) intangible; incorporeal; by force; outrageous; cruel; unreasonable; making light of; making fun of


expression: 無断外泊
reading: むだんがいはく
tags: n s vs
glossary:
(n,vs) staying out overnight without giving notice; spending night(s) away from home without permission (leave)


expression: 無断転載
reading: むだんてんさい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) unauthorized reproduction; unauthorised reproduction; unauthorized copying; unauthorised copying


expression: 無茶苦茶
reading: むちゃくちゃ
tags: P adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na) (uk) nonsensical; unreasonable; absurd; unrealistic; (uk) awfully; extremely; to excess; senseless; reckless; (n,adj-na) (uk) disorder; confusion; being jumbled; being mixed up; (P)


expression: 無点
reading: むてん
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(n) kanji without kanbun assistance markings; poetry, haiku, etc. without comments or corrections; (adj-na) meaningless; incomprehensible


expression: 無届
reading: むとどけ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) without notice; without leave (e.g. absence); unregistered; unreported (e.g. marriage, business, etc.)


expression: 無届け
reading: むとどけ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) without notice; without leave (e.g. absence); unregistered; unreported (e.g. marriage, business, etc.); (P)


expression: 無二無三
reading: むにむさん
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-no) in earnest; single-minded; with intense concentration; rushing headlong into; one and only; unique


expression: 無能無策
reading: むのうむさく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation


expression: 無法
reading: むほう
tags: P adj-na adj-no n
glossary:
(n) lawlessness; injustice; wrong; outrage; (adj-na,adj-no) outrageous; lawless; disorderly; unjust; unreasonable; (P)


expression: 無頼
reading: ぶらい
tags: adj-na adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-na,adj-no) hoodlum; scoundrel; ruffian; tough; villain; villainy; without relying on others; without asking for help


expression: 無理
reading: むり
tags: P adj-na n vs
glossary:
(adj-na,n) unreasonable; unnatural; unjustifiable; impossible; (adj-na,n,vs) forcible; forced; compulsory; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate; (P)


expression: 娘分
reading: むすめぶん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) treating somebody as one's own daughter; someone who is treated as a daughter; (arch) woman who manages geisha (Edo period)


expression: 冥途のみやげ
reading: めいどのみやげ
tags: exp n
glossary:
(exp,n) pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace


expression: 名
reading: な
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) name; given name; title; fame; renown; reputation; pretext; pretense; justification; appearance; (P)


expression: 名
reading: めい
tags: ctr n pref suf
glossary:
(ctr) (hon) counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); (n) first name; (pref) famous; great; (suf) name; (n) (abbr) noun


expression: 名のる
reading: なのる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to call oneself (name, label, etc.); to give one's name (as); to impersonate or claim (to be someone)


expression: 名家
reading: めいか
tags: n
glossary:
(n) distinguished family; noted family; noble family; family status in the Imperial Court; master (of a craft); expert


expression: 名寄
reading: なよせ
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) aggregation of names, addresses, etc.; collation of accounts held by the same person (by financial institutions)


expression: 名義書き換え
reading: めいぎかきかえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) registration of transfer of shares; entry of a change of holders in the register of shareholders


expression: 名乗り出る
reading: なのりでる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to introduce oneself; to announce oneself (e.g. as the person sought); to come forward (e.g. as a witness, with a claim, etc.); (P)


expression: 名乗る
reading: なのる
tags: P v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to call oneself (name, label, etc.); to give one's name (as); to impersonate or claim (to be someone); (P)


expression: 名数
reading: めいすう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) number of people; denominate number; the number at the start of phrases referring to well known 'somethings', equiv. to 'seven' in "the seven wonders of the world"


expression: 名簿式比例代表制
reading: めいぼしきひれいだいひょうせい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list


expression: 名誉白人
reading: めいよはくじん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites


expression: 命
reading: いのち
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) life; life force; lifetime; lifespan; most important thing; foundation; core; (arch) paired tattoos of the "life" kanji on the upper arms of a man and woman (indicating unwavering love); (arch) fate; destiny; karma; (P)


expression: 明々白々
reading: めいめいはくはく
tags: adj-na adj-no adj-t adv-to n
glossary:
(uK) (adj-na,adj-t,adv-to,n,adj-no) clearly evident; quite obvious; as clear as day; beyond any doubt; strikingly apparent


expression: 明い
reading: あかるい
tags: adj-i
glossary:
(io) (adj-i) bright; colourful; cheerful; familiar (with); knowledgeable (about); fair (e.g. politics); clean


expression: 明き
reading: あき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) space; room; emptiness; gap; opening; vacancy; empty seat; free time; time to spare; disuse; unused thing


expression: 明く
reading: あく
tags: v5k vi vt
glossary:
(v5k,vi) to open (e.g. doors); to open (e.g. business, etc.); to be empty; to be vacant; to be available; to be free; to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.); to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.); to come to an end; (v5k,vt) to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.); (v5k,vi) to have a hole; to form a gap; to have an interval (between events)


expression: 明け
reading: あけ
tags: adj-no n-pref n-suf n-t
glossary:
(n-t,adj-no,n-suf) dawn; daybreak; (n-suf,n-pref) end; soon after something has ended; beginning (of a new year, month, etc.)


expression: 明け荷
reading: あけに
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (sumo) luggage trunk for wrestlers and referees; wicker basket for a wrestler's belt, apron, etc.


expression: 明るい
reading: あかるい
tags: P adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) bright; colourful; cheerful; familiar (with); knowledgeable (about); fair (e.g. politics); clean; (P)


expression: 明刻
reading: ミンコ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) open three-of-a-kind (mahjong meld); three-of-a-kind made with a tile called from another player


expression: 明星
reading: みょうじょう
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) morning star; Venus; Lucifer; preeminent person (within their own field); star (of the stage, silver screen, etc.); (P)


expression: 明石焼
reading: あかしやき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) var. of pottery from Hyogo prefecture; round balls made from eggs, flour, etc., (local food of Akashi)


expression: 明太
reading: めんたい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) walleye pollack (Theragra chalcogramma) (kor: myeongtae); Alaska pollack; (abbr) walleye pollack roe (generally served salted and spiced with red pepper)


expression: 明徳
reading: めいとく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) virtue; Meitoku era (of the Northern Court) (1390.3.26-1392.10.5); Meitoku era (of reunified Japan) (1392.10.5-1394.7.5)


expression: 明朗会計
reading: めいろうかいけい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) clear accounting; honest accounting (billing); transparent billing practices (in restaurant and bar charges, etc.)


expression: 迷い箸
reading: まよいばし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette)


expression: 迷う
reading: まよう
tags: P v5u vi
glossary:
(v5u,vi) to lose one's way; to waver; to hesitate; to be of two minds over; to be puzzled; to be perplexed; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself; to turn in one's grave; (P)


expression: 鳴き砂
reading: なきすな
tags: n
glossary:
(n) singing sand (which produces sound when stepped on); whistling sand; squeaking sand; barking sand


expression: 鳴らす
reading: ならす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to ring; to sound; to chime; to beat; to snort (nose); to be popular; to be esteemed; to be reputed; to state; to insist; to complain; (arch) to fart (loudly); (P)


expression: 鳴戸
reading: なると
tags: n
glossary:
(n) strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom; (abbr) kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; (food) cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern


expression: 鳴門
reading: なると
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom; (abbr) kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; (food) cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref.; (abbr) Naruto Strait; (abbr) Naruto wakame; (P)


expression: 滅する
reading: めっする
tags: vi vs-s vt
glossary:
(vs-s,vi) to be destroyed; to perish; to go out (e.g. fire); (vs-s,vt) to destroy; to get rid of; to extinguish


expression: 滅多
reading: めった
tags: P adj-na n
glossary:
(ateji) (adj-na,n) (uk) thoughtless; reckless; careless; rash; (uk) seldom (with neg. verb); rare; (uk) ordinary; usual; common; (uk) excessive; immoderate; extreme; (P)


expression: 免れる
reading: まぬかれる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to escape from; to be rescued from; to avoid; to evade; to avert; to elude; to be exempted; to be relieved from pain; to get rid of


expression: 免れる
reading: まぬがれる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to escape from; to be rescued from; to avoid; to evade; to avert; to elude; to be exempted; to be relieved from pain; to get rid of; (P)


expression: 免疫
reading: めんえき
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) immunity; immunization; immunisation; being hardened (to); being unaffected (by); being accustomed (to); (P)


expression: 免許皆伝
reading: めんきょかいでん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo); initiation into the secrets (e.g. of an art); full mastership


expression: 免震
reading: めんしん
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) base isolation; seismic base isolation; base isolating; vibration damping at the base of a building


expression: 面
reading: めん
tags: P ctr n suf
glossary:
(n) face; mask; face guard; (MA) (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; (n,suf) aspect; facet; side; chamfer; (ctr) counter for broad, flat objects, levels or stages, e.g. in a video game; (P)


expression: 面綱
reading: おもづな
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (obs) bridle made from knotted rope or leather; multi-coloured rope ceremonial garland, placed on cattle, large rocks, etc.


expression: 面子
reading: メンツ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) face (chi: mianzi); honour; honor; combination of three tiles that form a set in mahjong; personnel; members; lineup; making up a four to play mahjong; (P)


expression: 面目一新
reading: めんぼくいっしん
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) undergoing a complete change in appearance; changing something out of all recognition; a rise in one's reputation


expression: 面目躍如
reading: めんもくやくじょ
tags: adj-no adj-t adv-to
glossary:
(uK) (adj-no,adj-t,adv-to) with evident joy of having lived up to one's reputation; having an effect of bolstering one's reputation


expression: 模様
reading: もよう
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) pattern; figure; design; state; condition; conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems; model; pattern; example; (after a noun) indicates that that noun seems likely (e.g. rain or storm); (P)


expression: 妄言多謝
reading: ぼうげんたしゃ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) Kindly excuse my reckless remarks; Please excuse my thoughtless words. (used deferentially, in a letter, etc.)


expression: 妄心
reading: もうしん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) deluded mind (a mind polluted with klesha, incapable of understanding the original essence of things)


expression: 孟母三遷
reading: もうぼさんせん
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning; Mencius' mother, three moves


expression: 毛
reading: もう
tags: n num
glossary:
(num) one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); 3.75 milligrams (one-thousandth of a monme); (n) old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)


expression: 毛づくろい
reading: けづくろい
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) grooming oneself (esp. animals); mutual grooming (e.g. monkeys); social grooming; personal grooming


expression: 毛氈をかぶる
reading: もうせんをかぶる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) (arch) to blunder; to bungle; to fail; (arch) to use up all one's money (esp. on the services of prostitutes)


expression: 蒙昧
reading: もうまい
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) ignorance; (lack of) enlightenment or civilization (civilisation); unenlightened; uncivilized; uncivilised


expression: 儲ける
reading: もうける
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to profit; to get; to earn; to gain; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck; (P)


expression: 木に縁って魚を求む
reading: きによってうおをもとむ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (id) to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius)


expression: 木を見て森を見ず
reading: きをみてもりをみず
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) to not see the wood for the trees; to be caught up with trivial matters and lose sight of the big picture


expression: 木瓜
reading: もこう
tags: n
glossary:
(ateji) (n) (arch) family crest based on a japonica flower; (arch) style of joruri narrative used for kabuki dances


expression: 木簡
reading: もくかん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) narrow, long, and thin pieces of wood strung together that were used to write on in ancient times


expression: 木魚
reading: もくぎょ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) fish gong; fish wood block; temple block; round, hollow, wood block (vaguely fish-shaped, usu. with scales), struck while chanting sutras


expression: 木守り
reading: きまぶり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) fruits left on a tree during winter (supposedly causing more fruits to appear in the next season)


expression: 木積もり
reading: きづもり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans


expression: 木賊板
reading: とくさいた
tags: n
glossary:
(n) thin cedar or cypress shingles (4.5-6 mm thick, used for shingling roofs of temples, shrines, etc.)


expression: 木賊葺
reading: とくさぶき
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) shingling with thin cedar or cypress shingles; roof shingled in such a manner (usu. at temples, shrines, etc.)


expression: 木賊葺き
reading: とくさぶき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) shingling with thin cedar or cypress shingles; roof shingled in such a manner (usu. at temples, shrines, etc.)


expression: 木馬
reading: もくば
tags: n
glossary:
(n) wooden horse; rocking horse; vaulting horse; horse used in gymnastics; the horse (ancient torture device that one was forced to straddle with rocks hanging from the feet)


expression: 木目込み人形
reading: きめこみにんぎょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood; kimekomi doll


expression: 黙殺
reading: もくさつ
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) ignoring; taking no notice of; refusing even to comment on; treating with silent contempt; shelving; smothering; withholding comment; (P)


expression: 目
reading: もく
tags: ctr n
glossary:
(n) (biol) order; item (of a budget revision, etc.); (ctr) counter for go pieces; counter for surrounded positions (in go)


expression: 目かくし
reading: めかくし
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) something used to cover the eyes; blindfold; blinder; blinker; eye bandage; concealing one's home such that the interior cannot be seen from outside


expression: 目が出る
reading: めがでる
tags: exp v1
glossary:
(exp,v1) to have luck on one's side; to get lucky; to have one's eyes bulge out of one's head (with surprise)


expression: 目くそ鼻くそを笑う
reading: めくそはなくそをわらう
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (id) the pot calling the kettle black; for the sleep in one's eyes to laugh at the snot in one's nose


expression: 目くらまし
reading: めくらまし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) smoke screen; dazzler; distraction; camouflage; deceptive means; magic; witchcraft; sleight of hand; shell game


expression: 目つぶし
reading: めつぶし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) sand, ash, etc., thrown in the eyes to blind someone; throwing something at someone's eyes to blind them; poking someone's eyes during a fight to blind them


expression: 目にいれてもいたくない
reading: めにいれてもいたくない
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye; loving someone dearly


expression: 目にかかる
reading: めにかかる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) to meet (someone of higher status); (arch) to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); to be visible; to be seen; to be noticed


expression: 目のかたきにする
reading: めのかたきにする
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) to hate the very sight of; to hold a grudge against; to treat like an enemy; to bear constant enmity; to be gunning for; to have it in for


expression: 目の上のこぶ
reading: めのうえのこぶ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) a thorn in one's side; a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.); nuisance; something in the way


expression: 目の上のたんこぶ
reading: めのうえのたんこぶ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) a thorn in one's side; a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.); a person standing in one's way; a superior who obstructs one's freedom of action


expression: 目の色を変える
reading: めのいろをかえる
tags: exp v1
glossary:
(exp,v1) to be in a tizzy; to be in a frenzy; to have one's eyes light up; to have a different look in one's eyes


expression: 目は口ほどに物を言う
reading: めはくちほどにものをいう
tags: exp v5u
glossary:
(exp,v5u) (id) one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; Eyes are as eloquent as the tongue


expression: 目を回す
reading: めをまわす
tags: exp v5s
glossary:
(exp,v5s) to faint; to swoon; to lose consciousness; to be astounded; to astonished; to have a busy time; to be hectic


expression: 目を閉じる
reading: めをとじる
tags: exp v1
glossary:
(exp,v1) to close one's eyes; to lower one's eyelids; to shut one's eyes; to die; to breathe one's last


expression: 目安箱
reading: めやすばこ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) suggestion box; comment box; (arch) complaints box placed in front of the supreme court (Edo period)


expression: 目覚し
reading: めざまし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (abbr) alarm clock; opening one's eyes; keeping one's eyes open; type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap


expression: 目覚まし
reading: めざまし
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (abbr) alarm clock; opening one's eyes; keeping one's eyes open; type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; (P)


expression: 目玉
reading: めだま
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) eyeball; (abbr) special feature; centerpiece; showpiece; drawcard; special program; loss leader; (P)


expression: 目減り
reading: めべり
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) loss (of weight or volume); decrease; reduction; diminishment; erosion; shrinkage; ullage; (P)


expression: 目処がたつ
reading: めどがたつ
tags: exp v5t
glossary:
(exp,v5t) the prospects for a solution look brighter; there is hope that we can (accomplish a certain thing)


expression: 目茶苦茶
reading: めちゃくちゃ
tags: P adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) (uk) absurd; unreasonable; nonsensical; preposterous; incoherent; extreme; senseless; reckless; wanton; disorder; confusion; mess; wreck; (P)


expression: 目白
reading: めじろ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (uk) white-eye family of birds (Zosteropidae); (uk) Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus); (P)


expression: 目抜
reading: めぬけ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) any large, red, deep-water scorpionfish with big eyes; Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae)


expression: 目鼻がつく
reading: めはながつく
tags: exp v5k
glossary:
(exp,v5k) to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; the nose and eyes are in place (the important parts are done)


expression: 目力
reading: めじから
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the ability to convey strong emotions with his eyes (for an actor); eyes that convey a strong sense of purpose


expression: 勿体ない
reading: もったいない
tags: P adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) (uk) impious; profane; sacrilegious; too good; more than one deserves; unworthy of; wasteful; (P)


expression: 餅餤
reading: へいたん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares


expression: 戻す
reading: もどす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to put back; to return; to give back; to restore (to a previous state, e.g. defrosting, reconstituting, reconciling); to turn back (e.g. clock hand); to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price); (P)


expression: 貰い乳
reading: もらいぢ
tags: n
glossary:
(ok) (n) having one's baby nursed by another woman; wet-nursing; breast milk received from another woman


expression: 貰う
reading: もらう
tags: P v5u vt
glossary:
(v5u,vt) (uk) to receive; to take; to accept; to get somebody to do something (follows a verb in "te" form); (P)


expression: 問いただす
reading: といただす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail


expression: 問いなおす
reading: といなおす
tags: v5s
glossary:
(v5s) to question again; to repeat a question (esp. a problematic point, or to verify understanding); to repeat a query


expression: 問い合わせ先
reading: といあわせさき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) contact information (for inquiries) (e.g. corporate phone number); reference (e.g. personal reference)


expression: 問い正す
reading: といただす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(iK) (v5s,vt) to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail


expression: 問う
reading: とう
tags: P v5u-s vt
glossary:
(v5u-s,vt) to ask; to question; to inquire; to charge (i.e. with a crime); to accuse; to care (about); without regard to (with negative verb); (P)


expression: 問うに落ちず語るに落ちる
reading: とうにおちずかたるにおちる
tags: exp v1
glossary:
(exp,v1) to keep a secret when asked about it, but let it slip inadvertently when chatting on another occasion


expression: 問題
reading: もんだい
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion; controversy; trouble; problem; inconvenience; difficulty; (P)


expression: 問題作
reading: もんだいさく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) controversial work (art, literature, etc.); work that caused public criticism; work of art dealing with contemporary questions; succes de scandale


expression: 紋羽二重
reading: もんはぶたえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) crest-decorated habutae (silk fabric used as a cloth for lining high-quality kimono); figured habutae


expression: 門
reading: もん
tags: P ctr n n-suf
glossary:
(n,n-suf) gate; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master; (biol) division; (ctr) counter for cannons; (P)


expression: 門戸を張る
reading: もんこをはる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)


expression: 門構
reading: もんがまえ
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) style or construction of a gate; gate-equipped (house, shop, etc.); kanji "gate" radical (radical 169)


expression: 門構え
reading: もんがまえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) style or construction of a gate; gate-equipped (house, shop, etc.); kanji "gate" radical (radical 169)


expression: 門清
reading: メンチン
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) having only tiles of one suit and not having called any tiles (mahjong yaku) (chi:); having only tiles of one suit and a concealed hand


expression: 門跡
reading: もんぜき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)


expression: 門前の小僧
reading: もんぜんのこぞう
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (id) (abbr) you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a young monk outside the gate (can read sutras he has never studied)


expression: 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む
reading: もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (id) you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a young monk outside the gate can read sutras he has never studied


expression: 門前清自摸和
reading: メンゼンチンツモホー
tags: n
glossary:
(n) winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (mahjong yaku); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles


expression: 門中
reading: もんちゅう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) family clan based on the paternal line, sharing the same tomb and performing rituals together (Okinawa)


expression: 也
reading: なり
tags: aux-v n suf
glossary:
(aux-v) (uk) (arch) to be (an affirmation); (uk) (arch) to be (location); (n,suf) sum of money (used to express an exact sum on a receipt, envelope, certificate, etc.)


expression: 夜伽
reading: よとぎ
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) attending someone through the night (guard, nurse); act of a woman sleeping with a man (at his bidding); keeping overnight vigil over body before burial


expression: 夜鷹
reading: よたか
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus); (uk) nightjar (any bird of family Caprimulgidae); goatsucker; streetwalker; low class prostitute (Edo period); (abbr) soba vendors who walk around at night; soba sold by these vendors


expression: 夜這い
reading: よばい
tags: n vs
glossary:
(ateji) (n,vs) creeping at night into a woman's bedroom; stealing into a girl's bedroom at night to make love; sneaking visit


expression: 夜目遠目
reading: よめとおめ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) seen in the dark or at a distance; (a woman) looking prettier when seen in the dark or at a distance


expression: 夜目遠目笠の内
reading: よめとおめかさのうち
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat


expression: 夜郎自大
reading: やろうじだい
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) throwing one's weight around in a small group without knowing one's real worth in a larger world outside


expression: 爺さん
reading: じいさん
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific); (P)


expression: 野臥間
reading: のぶすま
tags: n
glossary:
(n) legendary monster resembling a flying squirrel; Japanese giant flying squirrel (Petaurista leucogenys); (food) Japanese dish prepared with cooked fish and chicken


expression: 野合政権
reading: やごうせいけん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) administration established through an unprincipled political coalition; government of convenience; cabinet created through an unholy alliance


expression: 野人
reading: やじん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) rustic; country bumpkin; countryfolk; ruffian; unrefined person; non-politician; non-government person; civilian; Yeren; legendary mountain-dwelling hominid (similar to a sasquatch, yeti, etc.) of China's Hubei province


expression: 野生犬
reading: やせいいぬ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) wild dog; Asiatic jackal (Canis aureus ssp.); golden jackal; side-striped jackal (carnivore, Canis adustus)


expression: 野締め
reading: のじめ
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-no) killing one's catch on the spot (e.g. a bird); killing a fish immediately to preserve its freshness


expression: 野点
reading: のだて
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) open-air tea ceremony; aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin; something standing in the open


expression: 野分
reading: のわき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) late autumn (fall) windstorm in the countryside; typhoon, esp. one that blows from the 210th to the 220th day of the year; name of the 28th roll of the Genji monogatari


expression: 野暮
reading: やぼ
tags: P adj-na n
glossary:
(ateji) (adj-na,n) boorish; unsophisticated; unrefined; uncouth; tasteless; insensitive; thoughtless; dumb; (P)


expression: 野放しにする
reading: のばなしにする
tags: exp vs-i
glossary:
(exp,vs-i) to send cattle out grazing; to leave at large (a criminal); to leave unregulated; to leave something to take care of itself or something


expression: 野立て
reading: のだて
tags: n vs
glossary:
(iK) (n,vs) open-air tea ceremony; aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin; something standing in the open


expression: 野良
reading: のら
tags: adj-no n n-pref
glossary:
(n) field; farm; (adj-no) rural; agricultural; (n-pref) stray (e.g. dog, cat); unauthorised (esp. mobile phone application)


expression: 弥生
reading: いやおい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (obs) third month of the lunar calendar; (arch) thick growth (of grass, etc.); Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE - 300 CE)


expression: 矢っ張し
reading: やっぱし
tags: adv
glossary:
(ateji) (adv) (uk) too; also; likewise; either; (uk) still; as before; (uk) even so; either way; nonetheless; in any event; all the same; (uk) as expected


expression: 矢っ張り
reading: やっぱり
tags: P adv
glossary:
(ateji) (adv) (uk) too; also; likewise; either; (uk) still; as before; (uk) even so; either way; nonetheless; in any event; all the same; (uk) as expected; (P)


expression: 矢切の渡し
reading: やぎりのわたし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)


expression: 矢倉
reading: やぐら
tags: n
glossary:
(n) turret; watchtower; high wooden stage; scaffolding; wooden frame (of a kotatsu); (arch) weapons storehouse


expression: 矢鱈
reading: やたら
tags: P adj-na adv adv-to
glossary:
(ateji) (adj-na,adv,adv-to) (uk) at random; thoughtlessly; recklessly; excessively; impulsively; (P)


expression: 矢張
reading: やはり
tags: adv
glossary:
(ateji) (io) (adv) (uk) too; also; likewise; either; (uk) still; as before; (uk) even so; either way; nonetheless; in any event; all the same; (uk) as expected


expression: 厄介
reading: やっかい
tags: P adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) trouble; burden; nuisance; bother; worry; care; dependence; support; kindness; obligation; staying (with a person); (P)


expression: 役
reading: やく
tags: P n n-suf
glossary:
(n,n-suf) use; service; role; post; position; scoring combination (e.g. in mahjong, card games, etc.); hand; (P)


expression: 役者子供
reading: やくしゃこども
tags: n
glossary:
(n) skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world; (arch) child kabuki actor


expression: 役者馬鹿
reading: やくしゃばか
tags: n
glossary:
(n) good actor who is inept in all other matters; demon for acting who is utterly indifferent to all other concerns; skilled actor who knows little of life; person who excels in one occupation (profession) but lacks simple common sense


expression: 役牌
reading: やくはい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) value honor (mahjong); round wind, seat wind, and dragon tiles; winning hand containing one kong (or pung) of a value honor


expression: 役不足
reading: やくぶそく
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) dissatisfaction with the work (role) given to one; feeling oneself above the given work (role)


expression: 約
reading: やく
tags: P adv n
glossary:
(adv) approximately; about; (n) promise; shortening; reduction; simplification; (ling) contraction (in phonetics); (P)


expression: 約因
reading: やくいん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) consideration (in contract law, the thing given or done by the promisee in exchange for the promise)


expression: 約不足
reading: やくぶそく
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(iK) (adj-na,n) dissatisfaction with the work (role) given to one; feeling oneself above the given work (role)


expression: 薬
reading: くすり
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) medicine; pharmaceuticals; (legal) drugs; efficacious chemical (i.e. gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; small bribe; (P)


expression: 薬害ヤコブ病訴訟
reading: やくがいヤコブびょうそしょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Japanese lawsuit involving cases where hospitalized patients contracted Creutzfeld-Jakob disease from infected transplants


expression: 薬石
reading: やくせき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) various medicines; medical treatment; supper in a Zen temple; rice porridge served for supper in a Zen temple


expression: 薬味
reading: やくみ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) condiment (e.g. grated or chopped topping such as daikon, wasabi, ginger, green onion, red pepper); spice; (P)


expression: 訳
reading: わけ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (uk) conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation; (P)


expression: 訳あり
reading: わけあり
tags: adj-na exp
glossary:
(exp,adj-na) (having) special circumstances (e.g. problems, issues, advantages, flaws, defects, etc.); (exp) (id) There is a certain reason; Something has come up


expression: 訳がない
reading: わけがない
tags: P exp
glossary:
(exp) there is no way that ... (expresses speaker's belief that something is impossible); easy; simple; (P)


expression: 訳語
reading: やくご
tags: n s
glossary:
(n) translational equivalent; term(s) used in translation; gloss; equivalent term in another language


expression: 柳に雪折れなし
reading: やなぎにゆきおれなし
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (obsc) the soft may prove more durable than the hard; willow trees never break under the weight of snow


expression: 柳の下にいつも泥鰌はおらぬ
reading: やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはおらぬ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (obsc) a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree


expression: 薮蛇になる
reading: やぶへびになる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) you'll only make work for yourself; to stir up a hornet's nest; to put one's foot in one's mouth


expression: 愈
reading: いよいよ
tags: adv
glossary:
(adv) (uk) more and more; all the more; increasingly; at last; finally; beyond doubt; (at the) last moment; worst possible time


expression: 愈々
reading: いよいよ
tags: P adv
glossary:
(adv) (uk) more and more; all the more; increasingly; at last; finally; beyond doubt; (at the) last moment; worst possible time; (P)


expression: 油かす
reading: あぶらかす
tags: n
glossary:
(n) oil cake (fertilizer made of oily vegetable dregs); (food) deep-fried meat (esp. beef offal) resembling a pork rind


expression: 油をしぼる
reading: あぶらをしぼる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) to chew out; to reprimand severely; to rake over the coals; to give a sound scolding; to tell someone off; to scold; to rebuke; to press oil


expression: 油をそそぐ
reading: あぶらをそそぐ
tags: exp v5g
glossary:
(exp,v5g) to pour oil on (something); to anoint with oil; to turn up; to add fuel (e.g. to a dispute); to rev up; to encourage


expression: 油団
reading: ゆとん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) oiled multi-layered paper sheet used to sit or sleep on (during the summer); oiled-paper cushion; wax-cloth


expression: 油淋鶏
reading: ユーリンジー
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (food) Chinese-style fried chicken topped with chopped scallions and sweet vinegar and soy sauce (chi:)


expression: 輸入感染症
reading: ゆにゅうかんせんしょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) infectious disease originating overseas entering the country through an infected traveller or goods


expression: 唯
reading: ただ
tags: P adj-no adv n
glossary:
(adj-no,n) (uk) ordinary; common; usual; unaffected; as is; safe; (adv) only; merely; just; simply; but; however; nevertheless; (P)


expression: 唯今
reading: ただいま
tags: adv exp int n-t
glossary:
(oK) (int,exp) (uk) (abbr) Here I am; I'm home!; (n-t,adv) presently; right away; right now; just now


expression: 唯識
reading: ゆいしき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind)


expression: 唯心
reading: ゆいしん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra); spiritualism (in philosophy)


expression: 優
reading: ゆう
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na) gentle; elegant; classy; superior; skilled; excellent (in marking, grading, etc.); (n) actor


expression: 優る
reading: まさる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to excel; to surpass; to exceed; to have an edge; to be superior; to outrival; to outweigh; to preponderate


expression: 優遇
reading: ゆうぐう
tags: P adj-no n vs
glossary:
(n,vs,adj-no) favorable treatment; favourable treatment; hospitality; warm reception; good treatment; hearty welcome; (P)


expression: 優先席
reading: ゆうせんせき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) priority seat; courtesy seat; seat provided in trains, buses, etc. for the use of the disabled, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.


expression: 優曇華
reading: うどんげ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) udumbara (mythical Indian plant often identified with the cluster fig, Ficus glomerata); something very rare (from the legend that it flowers once in 3000 years); Japanese fiber banana flower; green lacewing eggs


expression: 友好関係
reading: ゆうこうかんけい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (establish) friendly (cordial) relations (with, between); (form) friendship (e.g. with a nation)


expression: 幽か
reading: かすか
tags: adj-na
glossary:
(adj-na) (uk) faint; dim; weak; slight; vague; indistinct; hazy; (uk) poor; wretched; meagre; meager; scanty


expression: 幽玄
reading: ゆうげん
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) subtle grace; hidden beauty; yugen; mysterious profundity; elegant simplicity; the subtle and profound; the occult


expression: 幽霊の正体見たり枯れ尾花
reading: ゆうれいのしょうたいみたりかれおばな
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears; the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass


expression: 悠々自適
reading: ゆうゆうじてき
tags: adj-na adj-no n
glossary:
(adj-na,adj-no,n) living a life of leisure with dignity; living quietly and comfortably free from worldly cares; otium cum dignitate


expression: 有縁
reading: うえん
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(adj-no,n) (Buddh) related to the teachings of Buddha; able to be saved by Buddha; related; relevant


expression: 有志一同
reading: ゆうしいちどう
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) all those interested (in the matter); all those willing; (from) all of us; (from) everyone concerned


expression: 有終の美
reading: ゆうしゅうのび
tags: exp n
glossary:
(exp,n) crowning glory (e.g. winning the last game of the season, creating a final spectacular art work)


expression: 有職
reading: ゆうしょく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) holding a job; learned; well-versed in usages or practices of the court or military households; knowledgeable


expression: 有無
reading: うむ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no; (comp) flag indicator; presence or absence marker; (P)


expression: 有無
reading: ゆうむ
tags: n
glossary:
(ok) (n) existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no; (comp) flag indicator; presence or absence marker


expression: 有利子負債
reading: ゆうりしふさい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) interest-bearing liabilities; interest-bearing debt; debt with interest; liability with interest


expression: 有理化
reading: ゆうりか
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) (math) rationalization (modifying part of an irrational expression, esp. denominators, to exclude roots or irrational numbers)


expression: 柚味噌
reading: ゆずみそ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) miso with sugar, sake, yuzu juice and skin; hollowed out yuzu stuffed with miso and yuzu juice then baked


expression: 湧き
reading: わき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) welling (up); gushing forth (of water); springing out; surging; appearing (esp. suddenly); frothing of water (due to an advancing school of fish)


expression: 湧く
reading: わく
tags: P v5k vi
glossary:
(v5k,vi) to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to spring out; to surge; to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions form (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.); (P)


expression: 涌く
reading: わく
tags: v5k vi
glossary:
(v5k,vi) to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to spring out; to surge; to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions form (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)


expression: 猶予う
reading: たゆたう
tags: v5u vi
glossary:
(ateji) (v5u,vi) (uk) to sway to and fro; to drift about; to flutter; to flicker; to be fickle; to be irresolute; to vacillate; to waver


expression: 由
reading: よし
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...; (P)


expression: 由ありげ
reading: よしありげ
tags: adj-na
glossary:
(adj-na) (arch) meaningful; suggestive; seeming to be with a history; seeming to be with circumstances that are hard to explain


expression: 誘致合戦
reading: ゆうちかっせん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) rivalry over winning the right to host an event; competition to lure (attract, invite) (institutions, manufacturing facilities, foreign tourists, etc.) to a locality


expression: 遊び
reading: あそび
tags: P n n-suf
glossary:
(n,n-suf) playing; (uk) play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect); (P)


expression: 遊び着
reading: あそびぎ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (children's) play clothes; playsuit; rompers; leisurewear; leisure clothes; sports coat; sportswear


expression: 遊ぶ
reading: あすぶ
tags: v5b vi
glossary:
(ok) (v5b,vi) to play; to enjoy oneself; to have a good time; to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.); to be idle; to do nothing; to be unused; to go to (for pleasure or for study); (baseb) to intentionally throw a ball to lower the batter's concentration


expression: 遊ぶ
reading: あそぶ
tags: P v5b vi
glossary:
(v5b,vi) to play; to enjoy oneself; to have a good time; to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.); to be idle; to do nothing; to be unused; to go to (for pleasure or for study); (baseb) to intentionally throw a ball to lower the batter's concentration; (P)


expression: 遊撃
reading: ゆうげき
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) raid; military attack by a mobile unit; hit-and-run attack; search-and-kill mission; search-and-destroy mission; military action without a predetermined target; attacking the enemy or assisting allies as the opportunity arises; (n) (abbr) shortstop; (P)


expression: 雄材大略
reading: ゆうざいたいりゃく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) superior talent and strategic wisdom; outstanding abilities and a talent for developing and implementing grand strategies


expression: 融く
reading: とく
tags: v5k vt
glossary:
(v5k,vt) to dissolve (paint); to scramble (eggs); to melt (metal, etc.); to mix (water with flour, etc.)


expression: 夕顔
reading: ゆうがお
tags: n
glossary:
(n) bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria, esp. Lagenaria siceraria var. hispida); (col) moonflower (Ipomoea alba)


expression: 予備軍
reading: よびぐん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) reserves (esp. troops); reserve army; potential members of some group (e.g. the elderly); people at risk (e.g. of a medical condition); wannabees


expression: 予備尋問
reading: よびじんもん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)


expression: 余り
reading: あまり
tags: P adj-na adj-no adv n n-suf
glossary:
(adj-na,adv,adj-no,n,n-suf) (uk) remainder; rest; balance; remains; scraps; residue; remnant; (adv) not very (with negative sentence); not much; (adv,adj-no) surplus; excess; fullness; too much; (adv) overjoyed; overwhelmed; (n-suf) more than; over; (P)


expression: 余韻
reading: よいん
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) reverberation; swelling (of a hymn); trailing note; lingering memory; aftertaste; suggestiveness (of a book, poem, etc.); (P)


expression: 余儀なくされる
reading: よぎなくされる
tags: exp v1
glossary:
(exp,v1) to be forced to do or experience something (against one's will); to be forced to do something because one has no other choice


expression: 余計
reading: よけい
tags: P adj-na adj-no adv n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) too many; too much; excessive; superfluous; superabundant; extra; spare; surplus; (adj-na,adj-no,n) unnecessary; needless; uncalled-for; otiose; (adv) abundantly; excessively; needlessly; all the more; (P)


expression: 余計者
reading: よけいもの
tags: n
glossary:
(n) person whose presence is unwelcome, unnecessary or a nuisance; fifth wheel; third wheel; interloper


expression: 余所
reading: よそ
tags: P adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-no) another place; somewhere else; strange parts; (n) outside (one's family or group); those people; unrelated matter; (P)


expression: 余裕を与える
reading: よゆうをあたえる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) to give someone space; to give someone breathing room; to cut someone some slack; to provide leeway; to provide an opportunity


expression: 与える
reading: あたえる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to grant; to confer; to present; to award; to provide; to afford; to offer; to supply; to assign; to cause; (comp) to pass (a variable to a function); (P)


expression: 与式
reading: よしき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (math) the assigned equation (used in maths to avoid writing out the original equation again in full)


expression: 預かる
reading: あずかる
tags: P v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to look after; to take care of; to keep; to hold on to; to keep in custody; to take charge of; to be entrusted with; to receive on deposit; to reserve (judgment); to leave undecided; (P)


expression: 預ける
reading: あずける
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to give into custody; to leave (a child) in the care of; to entrust; to deposit; to lean on; to put one's weight on; (P)


expression: 幼児語
reading: ようじご
tags: n
glossary:
(n) baby talk (like choo-choo for train, etc.); words and speech patterns used in talking with young children


expression: 揚がる
reading: あがる
tags: P suf v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to rise; to go up; to come up; to ascend; to be raised; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to go in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water); to come ashore; to increase; to improve; to make progress; to be promoted; to advance; to be made (of profit, etc.); to occur (esp. of a favourable result); to be adequate (to cover expenses, etc.); to be finished; to be done; to be over; (of rain) to stop; to lift; to stop (working properly); to cut out; to give out; to die; to win (in a card game, etc.); to be deep fried; to be spoken loudly; to get stage fright; to be offered (to the gods, etc.); (hum) to go; to visit; (hon) to eat; to drink; to be listed (as a candidate); to serve (in one's master's home); (in Kyoto) to go north; (suf,v5r) (after the -masu stem of a verb) indicates completion; (P)


expression: 揚げる
reading: あげる
tags: P aux-v suf v1 vi vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to surface (a submarine, etc.); to land (a boat); to deep-fry; to show someone (into a room); (uk) to summon (for geishas, etc.); to send someone (away); to enrol (one's child in school); to enroll; to increase (price, quality, status, etc.); to develop (talent, skill); to improve; to make (a loud sound); to raise (one's voice); to earn (something desirable); to praise; to give (an example, etc.); to cite; to summon up (all of one's energy, etc.); (pol) to give; to offer up (incense, a prayer, etc.) to the gods (or Buddha, etc.); to bear (a child); to conduct (a ceremony, esp. a wedding); (v1,vi) (of the tide) to come in; (v1,vi,vt) to vomit; (aux-v,v1) (uk) (pol) to do for (the sake of someone else); (suf,v1) to complete ...; (hum) to humbly do ...; (P)


expression: 揚げ巻
reading: あげまき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) old-fashioned boys' hairstyle; Meiji period women's hairstyle; type of dance in kabuki; (sumo) knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color); (abbr) constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam


expression: 揚げ浜
reading: あげはま
tags: n
glossary:
(n) artificially flooded salt farm above the high-tide mark; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones


expression: 揚屋
reading: あげや
tags: n
glossary:
(n) high-class Edo-period pleasure house (where outside prostitutes were hired to entertained guests)


expression: 揚水発電
reading: ようすいはつでん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) pumped storage; pumped-storage power generation; pumping up generation; pumped-storage hydroelectricity; pumping-up hydraulic power generation


expression: 揺ら揺ら
reading: ゆらゆら
tags: adv n vs
glossary:
(adv,n,vs) (uk) slow swaying; rolling from side to side; swinging; wobbling; shake; swing; waver; roll; rock; tremble; vibration; flicker


expression: 擁護
reading: ようご
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n) protection; advocacy; support; defence; championship; vindication; (vs) to protect (e.g. rights, etc.); to advocate (e.g. free trade, etc.); to support; (P)


expression: 様
reading: さま
tags: P n suf
glossary:
(suf) (hon) Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.; (pol) makes words more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); (n) state; situation; appearance; (P)


expression: 様
reading: よう
tags: P n n-suf
glossary:
(n-suf,n) (uk) appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style; design; like; similar to; (n) thing (thought or spoken); (P)


expression: 様々
reading: さまさま
tags: n suf
glossary:
(suf) our gracious (Queen); honorific that attaches to name of a person or thing that has bestowed grace or favour upon you; (n) agreeable condition


expression: 様だ
reading: ようだ
tags: aux
glossary:
(aux) (uk) (usu. at sentence-end) seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; indicates hope, wish, request or mild command


expression: 様に
reading: ように
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (uk) in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); (uk) hoping or wishing for something


expression: 様子
reading: ようす
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) state; state of affairs; situation; circumstances; appearance; look; aspect; sign; indication; (P)


expression: 様子次第
reading: ようすしだい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) according to circumstances; depending on the state of things; according to how the situation develops


expression: 洋学校
reading: ようがっこう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Western school; school dedicated to the study of the West and western languages (late Edo and Meiji periods)


expression: 洋銀
reading: ようぎん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) German silver; nickel silver; silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods


expression: 洋形
reading: ようけい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Japanese Western-style envelope (opening on the long dimension; numbered 0-7, each with different sizes)


expression: 溶く
reading: とく
tags: P v5k vt
glossary:
(v5k,vt) to dissolve (paint); to scramble (eggs); to melt (metal, etc.); to mix (water with flour, etc.); (P)


expression: 熔く
reading: とく
tags: v5k vt
glossary:
(oK) (v5k,vt) to dissolve (paint); to scramble (eggs); to melt (metal, etc.); to mix (water with flour, etc.)


expression: 用たし
reading: ようたし
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) running errands; going on errands; (transaction of) business; going about one's business; doing one's business (i.e. at the toilet); going to the washroom; purveying; purveyor


expression: 用を足す
reading: ようをたす
tags: exp v5s
glossary:
(exp,v5s) to take care of some business; to go on an errand; to relieve oneself; to do one's business; to go to the toilet


expression: 用件
reading: ようけん
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) business; thing to be done; something that should be perfomed; information that should be conveyed; (P)


expression: 用人
reading: ようにん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) manager; steward; factotum; person next in rank to the chief retainers and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period); useful person


expression: 用足
reading: ようたし
tags: n vs
glossary:
(io) (n,vs) running errands; going on errands; (transaction of) business; going about one's business; doing one's business (i.e. at the toilet); going to the washroom; purveying; purveyor


expression: 用不用説
reading: ようふようせつ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Lamarckian evolutionary theory in which individuals lose characteristics that are not used and develop characteristics that are often used


expression: 要するに
reading: ようするに
tags: P adv exp
glossary:
(exp,adv) in a word; after all; the point is ...; in short ...; to put simply; the long and short of it is that ....; (P)


expression: 要介護
reading: ようかいご
tags: n
glossary:
(n) primary nursing care; nursing care level (with number between 1 and 5 based on assessed care needs)


expression: 要素
reading: ようそ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) component; factor; item (e.g. in list); (comp) element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure); (P)


expression: 踊り場
reading: おどりば
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) dance hall; dance floor; landing (stairs); leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation; cooling-off period; lull; plateau; (P)


expression: 踊る阿呆に見る阿呆
reading: おどるあほうにみるあほう
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) dancing fool, watching fool; you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; all fools, so let's all dance


expression: 養殖
reading: ようしょく
tags: P adj-no n n-suf vs
glossary:
(n,vs,adj-no,n-suf) aquaculture (e.g. fish, shellfish, seaweed); culture (e.g. pearls); raising; cultivation; (P)


expression: 養生
reading: ようじょう
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) hygiene; health care; recuperation; regimen; covering (with a protective material); coating; (vs) to cure (concrete)


expression: 抑制
reading: よくせい
tags: P adj-no n vs
glossary:
(n,vs,adj-no) control; restraint; suppression; constraint; curtailment; inhibition; check; curb; (P)


expression: 欲も得もない
reading: よくもとくもない
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) having thought for neither gain nor greed; only wanting to do something (thinking about nothing else)


expression: 浴びる
reading: あびる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to bathe; to bask in (e.g. the sun); to be flooded with (e.g. light); to shower; to suffer (e.g. an attack); to have abuse heaped upon; to draw criticism upon oneself; (P)


expression: 翼
reading: よく
tags: ctr n suf
glossary:
(n) wing; (astron) Chinese "Wings" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); (suf,ctr) (arch) counter for birds or bird wings


expression: 淀む
reading: よどむ
tags: v5m vi
glossary:
(v5m,vi) to stagnate; to be stagnant; to settle; to deposit; to be sedimented; to be precipitated; to hesitate; to be sluggish; to stammer; to stumble; to falter


expression: 羅漢回し
reading: らかんまわし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture


expression: 羅萄日辞典
reading: らぽにちじてん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Dictionarium Latino Lusitanicum, ac Iaponicum, (Latin- Portuguese-Japanese dictionary, pub. 1595)


expression: 羅馬字
reading: ろーまじ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Latin alphabet; transliteration of Japanese in "Roman" or Latin letters; romanization; romanisation; romaji


expression: 裸族
reading: らぞく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) naked tribe; tribe or group that habitually goes naked; nudist; nudism; (sl) being habitually undressed at home or in hotel rooms etc. (e.g. dressed in underwear)


expression: 裸単騎
reading: はだかたんき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed (mahjong); waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed


expression: 来たる
reading: きたる
tags: adj-pn v5r vi
glossary:
(io) (v5r,vi) to come; to arrive; to be due to; (adj-pn) next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming


expression: 来る
reading: きたる
tags: P adj-pn v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to come; to arrive; to be due to; (adj-pn) next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; (P)


expression: 来る
reading: くる
tags: P aux-v vi vk
glossary:
(vk,vi,aux-v) to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to arrive; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become; to get; to grow; to continue; (vk,vi) to come from; to be caused by; to derive from; to come to (i.e. "when it comes to spinach ..."); (P)


expression: 来迎和讃
reading: らいごうわさん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) Japanese hymn praising the coming of the Buddha (thought to be written by Minamoto No Makoto)


expression: 頼もう
reading: たのもう
tags: int
glossary:
(int) (arch) excuse me; pardon me; used when visiting someone else's house to ask to be shown inside


expression: 雷が落ちる
reading: かみなりがおちる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(v5r) to be struck by lightning; (exp,v5r) to be yelled at (by someone of higher status); to be scolded harshly


expression: 雷魚
reading: らいぎょ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) blotched snakehead (species of fish, Channa maculata); northern snakehead (species of fish, Channa argus)


expression: 洛陽の紙価を高める
reading: らくようのしかをたかめる
tags: exp v1
glossary:
(exp,v1) (id) (arch) to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang


expression: 絡む
reading: からむ
tags: P v5m vi
glossary:
(v5m,vi) to entangle; to entwine; to pick a quarrel; to find fault; to be involved with; to be influenced by; to develop a connection with; (P)


expression: 絡繰
reading: からくり
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) (uk) mechanism; machinery; contrivance; device; (uk) trick; dodge; (uk) (abbr) mechanical doll; string puppet


expression: 落し
reading: おとし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (abbr) dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.); metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi


expression: 落し掛け
reading: おとしがけ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room; cloud-shaped carving on the bottom of a transom; metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi


expression: 落す
reading: おとす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape; to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances; to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with; (comp) to download; to copy from a computer to another medium; (MA) to make someone swoon (judo); to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line); to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)


expression: 落ちこぼれ
reading: おちこぼれ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (sens) leftovers; odds and ends; pickings; (sens) student who can't keep up in school; dunce; (P)


expression: 落ちついた
reading: おちついた
tags: adj-f
glossary:
(adj-f) calm; composed; cool; settled; fixed; established; unobtrusive; quiet; subdued; low-key (color)


expression: 落ちつく
reading: おちつく
tags: v5k vi
glossary:
(v5k,vi) to calm down; to compose oneself; to regain presence of mind; to calm down; to settle down; to die down; to become stable; to abate; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled; to be fixed; to have been reached; to harmonize with; to harmonise with; to match; to suit; to fit; to be unobtrusive; to be quiet; to be subdued


expression: 落ちる
reading: おちる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze); to be used in a certain place (e.g. money); to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class); to lose (contest, election, etc.); to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind; to become indecent (of a conversation); to be ruined; to go under; to fade; to come out (e.g. a stain); to come off (e.g. makeup); to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list); to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession; to fall (into a trap); to fall (for a trick); to give in; to give up; to confess; to flee; to fall; to be defeated; to surrender; to come to (in the end); to end in; to fall (in love, asleep, etc.); to swoon (judo); to consent; to understand; (comp) to crash; to freeze; to die; to move to the depths; (P)


expression: 落ち込む
reading: おちこむ
tags: P v5m vi
glossary:
(v5m,vi) to feel down (sad); to be in a slump (e.g. business, economy); to be in an unfavourable condition; to fall into (e.g. a hole); (P)


expression: 落ち着いた
reading: おちついた
tags: P adj-f
glossary:
(adj-f) calm; composed; cool; settled; fixed; established; unobtrusive; quiet; subdued; low-key (color); (P)


expression: 落ち着く
reading: おちつく
tags: P v5k vi
glossary:
(v5k,vi) to calm down; to compose oneself; to regain presence of mind; to calm down; to settle down; to die down; to become stable; to abate; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled; to be fixed; to have been reached; to harmonize with; to harmonise with; to match; to suit; to fit; to be unobtrusive; to be quiet; to be subdued; (P)


expression: 落ち入る
reading: おちいる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender; to capitulate


expression: 落とす
reading: おとす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape; to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances; to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with; (comp) to download; to copy from a computer to another medium; (MA) to make someone swoon (judo); to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line); to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting); (P)


expression: 落る
reading: おちる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(io) (v1,vi) to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze); to be used in a certain place (e.g. money); to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class); to lose (contest, election, etc.); to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind; to become indecent (of a conversation); to be ruined; to go under; to fade; to come out (e.g. a stain); to come off (e.g. makeup); to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list); to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession; to fall (into a trap); to fall (for a trick); to give in; to give up; to confess; to flee; to fall; to be defeated; to surrender; to come to (in the end); to end in; to fall (in love, asleep, etc.); to swoon (judo); to consent; to understand; (comp) to crash; to freeze; to die; to move to the depths


expression: 落花枝に帰らず破鏡再び照らさず
reading: らっかえだにかえらずはきょうふたたびてらさず
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) fallen blossom doesn't return to the branch, a broken mirror can not be made to shine; what's done is done; there's no use crying over spilled milk


expression: 落雁
reading: らくがん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (food) rakugan; dry confection of starch (e.g. rice, soy or barley flour) and sugar, mixed and pressed into a pattern; geese alighting


expression: 落語
reading: らくご
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller); (P)


expression: 落込む
reading: おちこむ
tags: v5m vi
glossary:
(v5m,vi) to feel down (sad); to be in a slump (e.g. business, economy); to be in an unfavourable condition; to fall into (e.g. a hole)


expression: 落成検査
reading: らくせいけんさ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) inspection of a completed facility (esp. of radio stations as required under Japanese law); completion inspection


expression: 落籍
reading: らくせき
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) lack of registration (in the census register); buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom


expression: 落雷
reading: らくらい
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n) lightning strike; thunderbolt; bolt of lightning; (vs) to strike (lightning); to be struck by lightning; (P)


expression: 落魄
reading: らくはく
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) being reduced to poverty; living in poverty; coming down in the world; straitened (reduced) circumstances


expression: 乱れる
reading: みだれる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to be disordered; to be disarranged; to be disarrayed; to be disheveled; to be dishevelled; to be discomposed; to be upset; to get confused; to be disturbed; to lapse into chaos (due to war, etc.); (P)


expression: 欄干
reading: らんかん
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) guardrail; handrail; bannister; balustrade; parapet; (arch) (a person) shining like the stars or moon; (a person) crying endlessly; (P)


expression: 藍
reading: あい
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (uk) dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye); indigo (dye); indigo (colour); (P)


expression: 藍花
reading: あいばな
tags: n
glossary:
(n) scum formed near the end of the indigo fermentation process; asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis)


expression: 藍絵
reading: あいえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)


expression: 藍革縅
reading: あいかわおどし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) stitching together an amor with indigo-dyed leather; armor stiched together with indigo-dyed leather


expression: 藍汁
reading: あいしる
tags: n
glossary:
(n) mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)


expression: 藍摺
reading: あいずり
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow); staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves


expression: 藍摺り
reading: あいずり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow); staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves


expression: 藍蝋
reading: あいろう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) indigo wax; cylindrical shape made from indigo dye froth, often by boiling the froth with caustic soda, used for coloring paintings, etc.


expression: 藍褸
reading: ぼろ
tags: n pref
glossary:
(n,pref) rag; scrap; tattered clothes; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down or junky


expression: 利き
reading: きき
tags: n n-pref n-suf
glossary:
(n) effectiveness; efficacy; efficaciousness; (n-suf,n-pref) dominance (e.g. of left or right hand); (n) tasting (alcohol, tea, etc.)


expression: 利益
reading: りやく
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) profit; gains; benefit; advantage; interest (of the public, etc.); grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing; miracle


expression: 利口
reading: りこう
tags: P adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) clever; intelligent; wise; bright; sharp; sensible; smart; shrewd; well-behaved (of kids, animals, etc); obedient; good; (arch) good (with words); (P)


expression: 利巧
reading: りこう
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(adj-na,n) clever; intelligent; wise; bright; sharp; sensible; smart; shrewd; well-behaved (of kids, animals, etc); obedient; good; (arch) good (with words)


expression: 履き替える
reading: はきかえる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to change (lower-body clothing: shoes, slippers, pants, a skirt, etc.); to put on the wrong pair of shoes by mistake


expression: 履く
reading: はく
tags: P v5k vt
glossary:
(v5k,vt) to put on (or wear) lower-body clothing (i.e. pants, skirt, etc.); to put on (or wear) footwear; to affix a sword to one's hip; to affix a bowstring to a bow; (P)


expression: 理
reading: り
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) reason; principle; logic; (Buddh) general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos; (P)


expression: 理学
reading: りがく
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) physical science (e.g. chemistry, biology, etc.); physics; lixue (Song-era Chinese philosophy); (arch) philosophy; (P)


expression: 理念
reading: りねん
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology; (P)


expression: 理論武装
reading: りろんぶそう
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) being prepared for a theoretical (ideological) argument; being armed with theoretical backing


expression: 裏
reading: うら
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) bottom (or another side that is hidden from view); undersurface; opposite side; reverse side; rear; back; behind (the house); lining; inside; out of sight; behind the scenes; proof; opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.); inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.); bottom (of an inning); last half (of an inning); (P)


expression: 裏づけ
reading: うらづけ
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-no) backing; support; endorsement; collateral; security; guarantee; proof; substantiation; foundation; lining (something); something lined


expression: 裏をかく
reading: うらをかく
tags: exp v5k
glossary:
(exp,v5k) to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to defeat; to pierce something all the way through


expression: 裏を返す
reading: うらをかえす
tags: exp v5s
glossary:
(exp,v5s) to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to turn (something) over; to look at it from another perspective; to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time


expression: 裏革
reading: うらかわ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) suede; leather using the underside of the skin; piece of leather on the underside of a bag, purse, etc.


expression: 裏口入学
reading: うらぐちにゅうがく
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) backdoor admission to a school; backdoor entry to a school; buying one's way into school; bribing one's way into a school


expression: 裏付け
reading: うらづけ
tags: P adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-no) backing; support; endorsement; collateral; security; guarantee; proof; substantiation; foundation; lining (something); something lined; (P)


expression: 里
reading: さと
tags: n
glossary:
(n) village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown; one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past


expression: 里
reading: り
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m); (P)


expression: 里ことば
reading: さとことば
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (ling) countryside dialect; (ling) sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period


expression: 里山
reading: さとやま
tags: n
glossary:
(n) undeveloped woodland near populated area; settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes


expression: 離る
reading: はなる
tags: v4r vi
glossary:
(v2r-s,v4r,vi) (arch) to be separated; to be apart; to be distant; (arch) to leave; to go away; (arch) to leave (a job, etc.); to quit; to give up; (arch) to lose connection with; to drift away from


expression: 離れ
reading: ばなれ
tags: suf
glossary:
(suf) separation from; loss of interest in; independence of; distancing (of oneself) from; disillusionment with; alienation from (something)


expression: 離れる
reading: はなれる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to be separated; to be apart; to be distant; to leave; to go away; to leave (a job, etc.); to quit; to give up; to lose connection with; to drift away from; (P)


expression: 離散集合
reading: りさんしゅうごう
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) meeting and parting; gathering and scattering; alignment and realignment; alternating alliance and rupture; alternating cooperation and defection


expression: 離婁の明
reading: りろうのめい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) (id) keen eyesight; the eyesight of Lilou (character with superior eyesight in ancient Chinese folklore)


expression: 律
reading: りつ
tags: ctr n n-suf
glossary:
(n) law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; (Buddh) vinaya (rules for the monastic community); (abbr) Ritsu (school of Buddhism); (abbr) lushi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; (abbr) Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do); (n,n-suf,ctr) (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)


expression: 律旋
reading: りっせん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, i.e. the Dorian mode)


expression: 律旋法
reading: りっせんぽう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) similar to Dorian mode


expression: 律令
reading: りつりょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) criminal, administrative and civil codes (forming the basis of ancient East Asian law; orig. Chinese); legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models


expression: 律令制
reading: りつりょうせい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) ritsuryo system (ancient East Asian system of centralized governance; in Japan: esp. 7th-10th century)


expression: 率先垂範
reading: そっせんすいはん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) set an example worth following; take the initiative in doing something thereby setting an example for others to follow


expression: 立ち
reading: たち
tags: P n pref
glossary:
(n) departure; setting off; start; being used up; being consumed; being burnt out; passage of time; lapse; (abbr) rehearsal; (abbr) leading male role in kabuki; (sumo) (abbr) initial charge; (pref) verb prefix conveying emphasis and increased feeling; (P)


expression: 立ちすくむ
reading: たちすくむ
tags: v5m vi
glossary:
(v5m,vi) to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)


expression: 立ちなおる
reading: たちなおる
tags: P v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet; to recover; (of the market) to improve; (P)


expression: 立ちはだかる
reading: たちはだかる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to stand in the way (esp. with legs spread out); to block one's way; to obstruct (progress etc.)


expression: 立ち位置
reading: たちいち
tags: n
glossary:
(n) position (where one is standing); place where one stands; position (in society); status; role; station


expression: 立ち回り
reading: たちまわり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) fight; scuffle; walking about; walking around; conducting oneself; stroll (in Noh, an action piece involving circling the stage)


expression: 立ち消える
reading: たちぎえる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to go out (of a fire, etc.); to die out (before burning to ash); to fall through (of plans, etc.); to fizzle out; to come to nothing


expression: 立ち上がる
reading: たちあがる
tags: P v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to stand up; to get up; to rise; to recover; to take action; to start; (sumo) to make the initial charge; (comp) to start up; to boot up; (P)


expression: 立ち読み
reading: たちよみ
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) reading while standing (in a bookstore, etc.); browsing (i.e. reading an item but not buying it); (P)


expression: 立ち入り禁止
reading: たちいりきんし
tags: P adj-no exp n
glossary:
(exp) No Entry; No Trespassing; No Admittance; Off Limits; Keep Out; Keep Off; (adj-no,n) off-limits; restricted; forbidden; (P)


expression: 立ち並ぶ
reading: たちならぶ
tags: v5b vi
glossary:
(v5b,vi) to stand in a row (e.g. shops on a street); to line in a row; to line; to be equal to; to be on a par with


expression: 立つ
reading: たつ
tags: P v5t vi
glossary:
(v5t,vi) to stand; to rise; to stand up; to find oneself (e.g. in a difficult position); to depart (on a plane, train, etc.); (P)


expression: 立て
reading: たて
tags: ctr pref suf
glossary:
(pref) central; main; head; chief; (suf) (uk) just (done); freshly (baked); indicates activity only just occurred; (ctr) counter for consecutive losses


expression: 立て
reading: だて
tags: suf
glossary:
(suf) particularly; especially; indicates the number of horses or oxen drawing a carriage; indicates the number of oars on a boat; indicates the number of movies, plays, etc. comprising a single program; indicates the number of items or methods used


expression: 立てる
reading: たてる
tags: P suf v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to stand up; to put up; to set up; to erect; to raise; to thrust into; to bury into; to dig into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to raise (a cloud of dust, etc.); to cause; to make; to establish; to set up; to develop; to formulate; to put up (a political candidate); to make (one's leader); to treat with respect; to give (someone) their due; to make (someone) look good; to avoid embarrassing (someone); to sharpen; to make clear; to shut; to close; to make tea (macha); to perform the tea ceremony; to divide by; (suf,v1) to do ... vigorously; (P)


expression: 立て札
reading: たてふだ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) bulletin board; notice board; billboard; roadside sign; sign on a post, usu. wooden, esp. containing information about a sight, warning, congratulations, etc.; (P)


expression: 立て前
reading: たてまえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts); tea ceremony procedures; tea ceremony etiquette


expression: 立て替え
reading: たてかえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) advancing money; temporary payment for someone else; payment on behalf of another party, with the expectation of being reimbursed later


expression: 立て替える
reading: たてかえる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to pay an advance; to put down money on something; to pay for another; to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him; (P)


expression: 立て役者
reading: たてやくしゃ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) leading actor; person who acts as driving force behind something; key figure; leading spirit; central figure


expression: 立位体前屈
reading: りついたいぜんくつ
tags: exp n
glossary:
(exp,n) bending from the hips with the legs straight and head nearly to the ground; deep forward bow


expression: 立件
reading: りっけん
tags: adj-no n vs
glossary:
(n,adj-no) assembling a case (for prosecution); precondition or prerequisite for prosecution; (vs) to build a criminal case against someone


expression: 立替
reading: たてかえ
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) advancing money; temporary payment for someone else; payment on behalf of another party, with the expectation of being reimbursed later


expression: 立直
reading: リーチ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) declaring that one is one tile away from winning in mahjong while one's hand is completely concealed (chi: lizhi); (uk) being one step away from completing something (winning, losing, game over, etc.)


expression: 立田揚
reading: たつたあげ
tags: n
glossary:
(iK) (n) fish (meat, etc.) flavoured with soy sauce and cooking sake, coated with dogtooth violet starch and then deep fried


expression: 立読み
reading: たちよみ
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) reading while standing (in a bookstore, etc.); browsing (i.e. reading an item but not buying it)


expression: 掠う
reading: さらう
tags: v5u vt
glossary:
(v5u,vt) (uk) to carry off; to run away with; to kidnap; to abduct; (uk) to monopolize; to make one's own


expression: 掠める
reading: かすめる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) (uk) to steal; to rob; to snatch; to pocket; to plunder; (uk) to deceive; to trick; to cheat; (uk) to graze (in passing); to skim; to brush against; to touch lightly; (uk) to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.); to flit (through one's mind, across one's face); (uk) to do (something) while no one is looking; (uk) (arch) to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate


expression: 略奪婚
reading: りゃくだつこん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) marriage by abduction; marriage by capture; bride kidnapping; marriage where the person courted was already married


expression: 略本暦
reading: りゃくほんれき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) abbreviated koyomi (Japanese traditional calendar); koyomi presented in a smaller, easy to use, format


expression: 略暦
reading: りゃくれき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (abbr) abbreviated koyomi (Japanese traditional calendar); koyomi presented in a smaller, easy to use, format


expression: 流す
reading: ながす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to drain; to pour; to spill; to shed (blood, tears); to wash away; to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to broadcast; to beam; to cruise (e.g. taxi); to float; to set adrift; to call off (a meeting, etc.); (P)


expression: 流れる
reading: ながれる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to run (ink); to be washed away; to be carried; to drift; to float (e.g. clouds); to wander; to stray; to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire); to spread; to circulate; to be heard (e.g. music); to be played; to lapse (e.g. into indolence, despair); to pass; to elapse; to be transmitted; to be called off; to be forfeited; to disappear; to be removed; (P)


expression: 流れを汲む
reading: ながれをくむ
tags: v5m
glossary:
(v5m) to be descended from; to be drawn from (the tradition of); to be derived from; to follow the school (tradition) of


expression: 流れ星
reading: ながれぼし
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (astron) shooting star; falling star; meteor; star (white patch on the forehead of a horse); (P)


expression: 流行る
reading: はやる
tags: P v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to be endemic; to flourish; to thrive; (P)


expression: 流出
reading: りゅうしゅつ
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) discharge; outward flow; efflux; effluence; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; bleeding (e.g. ink into paper); leak of (private) information or pictures; (P)


expression: 流石
reading: さすが
tags: P adj-na adj-no adv n
glossary:
(ateji) (adj-na,adv,n,adj-no) (uk) as one would expect; still; all the same; even... (e.g. "even a genius..."); (P)


expression: 流通
reading: りゅうつう
tags: P adj-f adj-no n vs
glossary:
(n,vs,adj-no) circulation of money or goods; flow of water or air; distribution; (adj-f) negotiable (e.g. shares); (P)


expression: 流量
reading: りゅうりょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) flow rate (esp. water or electricity); quantity of flow; capacity (of output or throughput per unit time)


expression: 流連荒亡
reading: りゅうれんこうぼう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures


expression: 溜まり
reading: たまり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) pile; pool; collection; gathering spot; (sumo) waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; (abbr) tamari; variety of rich soy sauce (used for sashimi, etc.)


expression: 溜め塗
reading: ためぬり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) lacquering technique that uses a coloured-lacquer undercoating and a transparent-lacquer topcoat


expression: 溜り
reading: たまり
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) pile; pool; collection; gathering spot; (sumo) waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; (abbr) tamari; variety of rich soy sauce (used for sashimi, etc.)


expression: 琉球処分
reading: りゅうきゅうしょぶん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Disposition of Ryukyu; forced assimilation of Okinawa into Japan, ending its tributary relations with China and abolishing the Ryukyu Kingdom (1872-1879)


expression: 琉璃
reading: るり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) lapis lazuli; (abbr) lapis lazuli (color); (abbr) beryl; (abbr) mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); (obsc) glass


expression: 留め
reading: とめ
tags: n suf
glossary:
(n,suf) (a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle


expression: 留める
reading: とどめる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to cease; to put an end to; to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to limit; to record (e.g. a fact); to retain; (P)


expression: 留め袖
reading: とめそで
tags: n
glossary:
(n) formal, usually black, kimono with designs along the bottom of the skirt worn by married women on ceremonial occasions; married woman's ceremonial kimono


expression: 留主
reading: るす
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting


expression: 留守
reading: るす
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting; (P)


expression: 粒
reading: つび
tags: ctr n n-suf
glossary:
(ok) (n,n-suf) grain; bead; drop; (ctr) counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops


expression: 粒
reading: つぶ
tags: P ctr n n-suf
glossary:
(n,n-suf) grain; bead; drop; (ctr) counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops; (P)


expression: 竜
reading: りゅう
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga (semidivine human-cobra chimera in Indian mythology); promoted rook (shogi); (P)


expression: 竜
reading: りょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga (semidivine human-cobra chimera in Indian mythology); promoted rook (shogi)


expression: 竜田揚
reading: たつたあげ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) fish (meat, etc.) flavoured with soy sauce and cooking sake, coated with dogtooth violet starch and then deep fried


expression: 竜灯
reading: りゅうとう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) phosphorescent lights seen at sea at night; lights that can be seen on the altar of gods, intended as an offering


expression: 龍
reading: りゅう
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga (semidivine human-cobra chimera in Indian mythology); promoted rook (shogi)


expression: 龍須糖
reading: りゅうのひげ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (food) Dragon's beard candy; Chinese cotton candy; Chinese pastry, similar to Turkish pishmaniye or Persian pashmak (thin pastry threads outside, filling inside)


expression: 旅は道連れ世は情け
reading: たびはみちづれよはなさけ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) just as it is reassuring to have a companion when traveling, it is important for us to care for each other as we pass through this life


expression: 了簡
reading: りょうけん
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) idea; thought; intention; design; inclination; decision; motive; discretion; forgiveness; toleration


expression: 了承
reading: りょうしょう
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting; acceptance; (P)


expression: 両
reading: りょう
tags: ctr n pref
glossary:
(n,pref) both (e.g. both shoulders, etc.); (n) ryo (obsolete unit of currency); 41-42 g (one sixteenth of a kin); 2 tan (measure of fabric size); (ctr) counter for carriages (e.g. in a train)


expression: 両刀遣い
reading: りょうとうつかい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) double-sword fencing; two-sword fencer; being skilled in two fields; (an) expert in two fields; liking both alcohol and sweets; person who likes alcohol and sweets equally well; bisexual (person)


expression: 両部
reading: りょうぶ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) two parts; both parts; both realms (i.e. the Diamond Realm and the Womb Realm); (abbr) Shinto-Buddhist amalgamation


expression: 両面
reading: リャンメン
tags: n
glossary:
(n) double-sided wait (for one's last tile in mahjong); wait for either of two different tiles to complete a chow which will finish one's hand


expression: 両雄並び立たず
reading: りょうゆうならびたたず
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (id) if two ride upon a horse, one must sit behind; when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war; two great rivals cannot coexist


expression: 凌ぐ
reading: しのぐ
tags: P v5g vt
glossary:
(v5g,vt) to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain); to stave off (e.g. starvation); to pull through; to get over; to survive; to surpass; to outdo; to excel; to eclipse; to defy; to slight; (P)


expression: 寮
reading: りょう
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) hostel; dormitory; (arch) bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system); (P)


expression: 涼しい
reading: すずしい
tags: P adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) cool; refreshing; clear (e.g. eyes); bright; clear; distinct; composed (facial expression); unruffled; unconcerned; (arch) pure; upright; innocent; (P)


expression: 涼感
reading: りょうかん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) feelings of coolness (e.g. from wearing light clothing in hot weather); cool feeling; cool impression


expression: 涼台
reading: すずみだい
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) outdoor bench (placed under the eaves of a house and used for cooling off during the summer)


expression: 良い
reading: いい
tags: P adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) (uk) good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable; sufficient (can be used to turn down an offer); ready; prepared; profitable (e.g. deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial; OK; (P)


expression: 諒承
reading: りょうしょう
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting; acceptance


expression: 力
reading: ちから
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) force; strength; might; vigour (vigor); energy; capability; ability; proficiency; capacity; faculty; efficacy; effect; effort; endeavours (endeavors); exertions; power; authority; influence; good offices; agency; support; help; aid; assistance; stress; emphasis; means; resources; (P)


expression: 力
reading: りき
tags: n n-suf
glossary:
(n) strength; power; proficiency; ability; (n-suf) the strength of ... people; the strength of ... men


expression: 力が入る
reading: ちからがはいる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) to be filled with strength; to be filled with effort; to be under strain; to be under pressure; to be enthusiastic about; (sumo) to be tired (ironic)


expression: 力づく
reading: ちからづく
tags: v5k
glossary:
(v5k) to recover one's strength; to recover one's spirit; to revive; to be refreshed; to be invigorated; to be encouraged


expression: 力をつける
reading: ちからをつける
tags: exp v1
glossary:
(exp,v1) to build up one's strength; to get stronger; to give (someone) strength; to cheer (someone) up; to encourage (someone)


expression: 緑一色
reading: リューイーソー
tags: n
glossary:
(n) all green (mahjong) (chi:); winning hand consisting only of exclusively green tiles (green dragons and suited bamboo tiles of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8)


expression: 緑猿
reading: みどりざる
tags: n
glossary:
(n) green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus, sometimes considered to be a subspecies of Chlorocebus aethiops)


expression: 緑啄木鳥
reading: あおげら
tags: n
glossary:
(gikun) (n) (uk) Japanese green woodpecker (Picus awokera); Japanese woodpecker; wavy-bellied woodpecker


expression: 倫理規定
reading: りんりきてい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) code of ethics; ethical code; ethical consideration; ethical provision; ethics regulation; honor (honour) code


expression: 厘
reading: りん
tags: P n num
glossary:
(num) one-hundredth; 0.3 mm (one-hundredth of a sun); 0.1 percent (one-hundredth of a wari); 0.0375 grams (one-hundredth of a monme); (n) old monetary unit (0.001 yen); (P)


expression: 臨む
reading: のぞむ
tags: P v5m vi
glossary:
(v5m,vi) to look out on; to face; to deal with; to attend (e.g. function); to appear (e.g. in court); (P)


expression: 臨兵闘者皆陣裂在前
reading: りんぴょうとうしゃかいじんれつざいぜん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) nine cuts mudra (mudra: hand posture which forms a part of Hindu prayer); exorcism-purification spell


expression: 輪郭
reading: りんかく
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) contour; outline; border; silhouette; summary; outline; sketch; looks; features; appearance; (P)


expression: 輪宝
reading: りんぼう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) Cakraratna; wheel-shaped treasure possessed by the ideal universal ruler, carried in front of him during excursions to allow easy passage


expression: 輪寶
reading: りんぼう
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) (Buddh) Cakraratna; wheel-shaped treasure possessed by the ideal universal ruler, carried in front of him during excursions to allow easy passage


expression: 瑠璃鳥
reading: るりちょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (col) Formosan whistling thrush (Myophonus insularis); blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)


expression: 類似
reading: るいじ
tags: P adj-no n vs
glossary:
(n,adj-no) resemblance; similarity; analogous; quasi; (vs) to resemble; to be similar; to be alike; (P)


expression: 例
reading: れい
tags: adj-no n n-pref
glossary:
(n,n-pref,adj-no) custom; practice; habit; usual; said; aforementioned; instance; example; case; illustration; usage; precedent


expression: 例の
reading: れいの
tags: adj-pn adv
glossary:
(adj-pn) the usual; as it always is; said; that (previously-mentioned person or object); aforementioned; you-know-(who, what, etc.); (adv) (arch) in the usual way


expression: 冷える
reading: ひえる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to grow cold (from room temperature, e.g. in refrigerator); to get chilly; to cool down; (P)


expression: 冷す
reading: ひやす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to cool (from room temperature); to chill; to refrigerate; to calm down; to cool off; to regain one's composure; to relax; to be frightened (at); to be scared (of)


expression: 冷ます
reading: さます
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to cool (e.g. from a high temperature to room temperature); to dampen; to let cool; to throw a damper on; to spoil; (P)


expression: 冷める
reading: さめる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to become cool (e.g. from a high temperature to room temperature); to come down (fever); to cool down (interest); to abate; to subside; to dampen; (P)


expression: 冷やかし
reading: ひやかし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) jeering; raillery; chaffing; merely asking the price; just looking at goods; window-shopping; browsing


expression: 冷やし飴
reading: ひやしあめ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (food) (uk) chilled syrup; soft drink of malt syrup mixed with boiling water, ginger juice, grated ginger, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon (used as a refreshing summer drink, similar to ginger ale)


expression: 冷やす
reading: ひやす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to cool (from room temperature); to chill; to refrigerate; to calm down; to cool off; to regain one's composure; to relax; to be frightened (at); to be scared (of); (P)


expression: 冷や飯を食う
reading: ひやめしをくう
tags: exp v5u
glossary:
(exp,v5u) to depend on somebody for food and lodging; to be treated coldly; to be kept in a low position


expression: 冷や飯食い
reading: ひやめしくい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) hanger-on; dependent; someone who is received coldly; (fam) third, fourth, fifth, etc. sons (during the Edo period when only the oldest male could inherit an estate)


expression: 冷麺
reading: れいめん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) cold noodles (in Korean style); (ksb:) chilled Chinese noodles; cold Chinese noodles accompanied by soup for dipping


expression: 礼冠
reading: らいかん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) crown or head-ornament worn with formal or ceremonial clothes by nobility (ritsuryo system)


expression: 礼讃舞
reading: らいさんまい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) dance recital praising Buddha, which accompanies the recital of a gatha (in the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism)


expression: 零す
reading: こぼす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to spill; to drop; to shed (tears); to grumble; to complain; to let one's feelings show; (P)


expression: 零れる
reading: こぼれる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) (uk) to spill; to fall out of; to overflow; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.); (P)


expression: 霊視商法
reading: れいししょうほう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits)


expression: 霊台
reading: れいだい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) observatory for astronomy, cloud-watching, etc.; (abbr) (arch) astronomical expert; (arch) place where the soul is located


expression: 歴る
reading: へる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to pass; to elapse; to go by; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through; to undergo


expression: 歴女
reading: れきじょ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) young woman strongly interested in pre-Edo history; young woman making use of speech and mannerisms of pre-industrial Japan; female history buff


expression: 列ねる
reading: つらねる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to line up; to put in a row; to add (to a group); to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.); to join (e.g. a list); to link; to put together; to string together (e.g. compliments); to enumerate; to take along with; to bring with


expression: 劣勢
reading: れっせい
tags: P adj-na adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-no,adj-na) inferiority (e.g. numerical); inferior position; disadvantage; unfavorable situation; unfavourable situation; (P)


expression: 裂く
reading: さく
tags: P v5k vt
glossary:
(v5k,vt) to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to cut open (esp. the abdomen); to forcibly separate (i.e. two lovers); (arch) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye; (P)


expression: 裂帛
reading: れっぱく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) cutting through cloth; sound of cutting through cloth; shrieking sound; woman's scream; loud scream; cry of the lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)


expression: 憐れ
reading: あわれ
tags: adj-na int n
glossary:
(n) pity; sorrow; grief; misery; compassion; pathos; (adj-na) pitiable; pitiful; pathetic; miserable; (int) alack; alas


expression: 煉る
reading: ねる
tags: v5r vi vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to elaborate; to work out; to train; to drill; to exercise; to tan (leather); to temper (steel); (v5r,vi) to walk in procession; to parade; to march


expression: 練る
reading: ねる
tags: P v5r vi vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to elaborate; to work out; to train; to drill; to exercise; to gloss (silk); to soften; to degum; to tan (leather); to temper (steel); (v5r,vi) to walk in procession; to parade; to march; (P)


expression: 聯絡
reading: れんらく
tags: adj-no n vs
glossary:
(vs,adj-no) to contact; to get in touch; (n) contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message; connection; coordination; junction; (adj-no) intercalary; intercalaris; internuncial


expression: 蓮
reading: はちす
tags: n
glossary:
(ok) (n) (uk) sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera); Indian lotus; lotus; rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)


expression: 蓮花
reading: れんげ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) lotus flower; (abbr) (uk) Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus); (abbr) china spoon; lotus-shaped pedestal for a gravestone


expression: 連
reading: むらじ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) Muraji (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to seventh highest of eight)


expression: 連
reading: れん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) ream (of paper); stanza; verse; (taxonomical) tribe; party; company; group; (abbr) quinella; quiniela


expression: 連ねる
reading: つらねる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to line up; to put in a row; to add (to a group); to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.); to join (e.g. a list); to link; to put together; to string together (e.g. compliments); to enumerate; to take along with; to bring with; (P)


expression: 連画
reading: れんが
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (abbr) sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue)


expression: 連結
reading: れんけつ
tags: P adj-na adj-no n vs
glossary:
(n,vs,adj-na,adj-no) concatenation; coupling; connection; linking; consolidation (e.g. of company accounts); (P)


expression: 連衡
reading: れんこう
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) alliance (esp. originally of individual member states of the Six Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty)


expression: 連座制
reading: れんざせい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)


expression: 連作
reading: れんさく
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence; (P)


expression: 連続画像
reading: れんぞくがぞう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue)


expression: 連濁
reading: れんだく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)


expression: 連投
reading: れんとう
tags: P n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) (baseb) pitching in consecutive games; (comp) making multiple posts; posting multiple comments; (P)


expression: 連動
reading: れんどう
tags: P adj-f n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) operating together; working together; gearing; linkage; (adj-f) linked; coupled; interlocking; (P)


expression: 連風牌
reading: れんぷうはい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) tiles matching both the round wind and one's seat wind (mahjong); pung (or kong) of these tiles (mahjong yaku)


expression: 連絡
reading: れんらく
tags: P adj-no n vs
glossary:
(vs,adj-no) to contact; to get in touch; (n) contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message; connection; coordination; junction; (adj-no) intercalary; intercalaris; internuncial; (P)


expression: 連絡帳
reading: れんらくちょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) correspondence notebook (e.g. between teacher and parents); contact notebook; communication notebook


expression: 呂
reading: りょ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (abbr) bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scaleimilar to Mixolydian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)


expression: 呂旋
reading: りょせん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: so, la, ti, do, re, mi, fa), similar to Mixolydian mode


expression: 櫓太鼓
reading: やぐらだいこ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (sumo) drums which announce the opening of a stage performance or commencement of bouts; the sound produced by such drums


expression: 路線価
reading: ろせんか
tags: n
glossary:
(n) roadside land prices; price of land adjoining a major road, used to calculate inheritance and gift taxes


expression: 露悪趣味
reading: ろあくしゅみ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is


expression: 露地
reading: ろじ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof); teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)


expression: 露払い
reading: つゆはらい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) outrider; herald; (sumo) rikishi who leads the yokozuna to the ring prior to his ring-entering ceremony


expression: 労り
reading: いたわり
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(n,adj-no) sympathy; consideration; carefulness; attention; (n) (arch) service; labor; labour; trouble; meritorious deed; (arch) illness; disease; sickness


expression: 労る
reading: いたわる
tags: P v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to console; to be kind to; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse; (P)


expression: 労わる
reading: いたわる
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(io) (v5r,vt) to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to console; to be kind to; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse


expression: 労災
reading: ろうさい
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (abbr) work-related injury; work-related illness; work-related death; on-the-job accident; (abbr) workers' compensation insurance; (P)


expression: 労働三法
reading: ろうどうさんぽう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the three labor laws (trade union law, labor standards law, labor relations adjustment law) (labour)


expression: 労働団体
reading: ろうどうだんたい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) labor body; labour body; labor organization; labour organization; labor federation; labour federation


expression: 弄する
reading: ろうする
tags: vs-s
glossary:
(vs-s) to play with; to joke; to use (esp. trick, sophistry, etc.); to deride; to scoff at; to make fun of


expression: 浪花節的
reading: なにわぶしてき
tags: adj-na
glossary:
(adj-na) of the old feeling of naniwa-bushi; marked by the dual themes of obligation and compassion that distinguish the naniwa-bushi ballads


expression: 浪人
reading: ろうにん
tags: P adj-no n vs
glossary:
(n,vs,adj-no) ronin; wandering samurai without a master to serve; out of work; waiting for another chance to enter a university; (P)


expression: 漏らす
reading: もらす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to let leak; to reveal; to wet one's pants; to give utterance; to vent; to express; to omit; to leave out; (P)


expression: 漏れる
reading: もれる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to leak out; to escape; to come through; to shine through; to filter out; to be omitted; (P)


expression: 篭める
reading: こめる
tags: v1 vi vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); (v1,vi) to hang over; to shroud; to enshroud; to envelop; to screen


expression: 老頭
reading: おいがしら
tags: n
glossary:
(n) helmet with white hair coming out of the top to make one look like an old person; kanji "old" radical at top


expression: 六ヶ敷い
reading: むずかしい
tags: adj-i
glossary:
(ateji) (oK) (adj-i) difficult; hard; troublesome; complicated; serious (disease, problem, etc.); fussy; particular; fastidious; hard to please; displeased; gloomy; glum; sullen; serious (look); (arch) dirty; unclean; filthy; detestable; (arch) unpleasant; uncomfortable; creepy; spooky


expression: 六淫
reading: ろくいん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) six external causes of illness in traditional Chinese medicine (wind, cold, fire-heat, dampness, dryness, heat of summer)


expression: 六気
reading: りくき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) yin, yang, wind, rain, darkness, light; cold, heat, dryness, dampness, wind, fire; six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, hate)


expression: 六義
reading: りくぎ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) six forms of the Shi Jing (genre: folk song, festal song, hymn; style: narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison); six forms of waka (allegorical, enumerative, metaphorical, allusive, plain, congratulatory); six principles of calligraphy; six classes of kanji characters


expression: 六境
reading: ろっきょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) six objective fields of the senses (shape and colour, sound, scent, flavour, physical feeling, and mental presentation)


expression: 六国史
reading: りっこくし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Rikkokushi; the six ancient Japanese historical collections compiled between the Nara and Heian periods


expression: 六三制
reading: ろくさんせい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)


expression: 六時
reading: ろくじ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) six o'clock; (Buddh) six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night)


expression: 六識
reading: ろくしき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning)


expression: 六神丸
reading: ろくしんがん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) pill made from various animal ingredients (inc. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine


expression: 六体
reading: りくたい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive


expression: 六朝
reading: りくちょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen); calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period


expression: 六調子
reading: ろくちょうし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian)


expression: 六道
reading: ろくどう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Nakara realm)


expression: 六府
reading: ろっぷ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the six internal organs (large intestine, small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, san jiao, urinary bladder)


expression: 六部
reading: ろくぶ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) six copies; (abbr) Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)


expression: 六韜三略
reading: りくとうさんりゃく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) two books on the art of war in ancient China; the secrets (essence) of the art of war; secrets of successful life; precepts for living


expression: 論
reading: ろん
tags: n n-suf
glossary:
(n,n-suf) argument; discussion; dispute; controversy; discourse; debate; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise; comment


expression: 論語読みの論語知らず
reading: ろんごよみのろんごしらず
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) a mere scholar, unable to practically use what he has learned; someone who knows a theory, but cannot apply it


expression: 論旨明快
reading: ろんしめいかい
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(n,adj-na) the point of an argument being clearly stated; the tenor of an argument being well-reasoned


expression: 論述
reading: ろんじゅつ
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) statement (of a carefully reasoned logical argument); dissertation; enunciation; setting forth


expression: 倭
reading: やまと
tags: adj-f n
glossary:
(n) Yamato; ancient province corresponding to modern-day Nara Prefecture; (ancient) Japan; (adj-f) Japanese


expression: 和解
reading: わかい
tags: P adj-no n vs
glossary:
(n,vs,adj-no) reconciliation; settlement; accommodation; compromise; mediation; rapprochement; (law) settlement; (arch) translation of a foreign language into Japanese; (P)


expression: 和解
reading: わげ
tags: adj-no n vs
glossary:
(n,vs,adj-no) reconciliation; settlement; accommodation; compromise; mediation; rapprochement; (arch) translation of a foreign language into Japanese


expression: 和敬静寂
reading: わけいせいじゃく
tags: n
glossary:
(iK) (n) harmony, respect, purity and tranquility; the four most important elements of the tea ceremony


expression: 和光同塵
reading: わこうどうじん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) mingling with the world by hiding one's true talent or knowledge; living a quiet life by effacing oneself


expression: 和習
reading: わしゅう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) touch of Japanese; tinge of Japanese; Japanese flavour (flavor); Japanese style (e.g. of kanbun writing, in contrast to actual Chinese)


expression: 和尚
reading: おしょう
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (hon) preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism); second highest priestly rank in Buddhism; monk (esp. the head monk of a temple); master (of one's art, trade, etc.); (P)


expression: 和尚
reading: かしょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (hon) preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism); second highest priestly rank in Buddhism; monk (esp. the head monk of a temple); master (of one's art, trade, etc.)


expression: 和尚
reading: わじょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (hon) preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism); second highest priestly rank in Buddhism; master (of one's art, trade, etc.)


expression: 話しかける
reading: はなしかける
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation


expression: 話し掛ける
reading: はなしかける
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation; (P)


expression: 話す
reading: はなす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat; to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss; to speak (a language); (P)


expression: 話題になる
reading: わだいになる
tags: exp v5r
glossary:
(exp,v5r) to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical


expression: 歪
reading: いびつ
tags: adj-na adj-no n
glossary:
(adj-na,n,adj-no) distorted; crooked; irregular; warped; (n) oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin


expression: 歪む
reading: いがむ
tags: v5m vi
glossary:
(v5m,vi) to warp; to swerve; to deflect; to be crooked; to be distorted; to be bent; to incline; to slant; to be perverted; to be gross-grained; to get bent; to be strained


expression: 歪む
reading: ゆがむ
tags: P v5m vi
glossary:
(v5m,vi) to warp; to swerve; to deflect; to be crooked; to be distorted; to be bent; to incline; to slant; to be perverted; to be gross-grained; to get bent; to be strained; (P)


expression: 歪める
reading: いがめる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(ok) (v1,vt) to bend; to curve; to warp; to distort; to disfigure; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to twist; to corrupt; to sully


expression: 歪める
reading: ゆがめる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to bend; to curve; to warp; to distort; to disfigure; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to twist; to corrupt; to sully


expression: 脇
reading: わき
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) armpit; under one's arm; side; flank; beside; close to; near; by; aside; to the side; away; out of the way; off-track; off-topic; deuteragonist; supporting role; (abbr) second verse (in a linked series of poems); (P)


expression: 脇柱
reading: わきばしら
tags: n
glossary:
(n) downstage left pillar (on a noh stage), by which the supporting actor introduces himself; doorjamb; jambe; jamb


expression: 脇明け
reading: わきあけ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides, and no wrapped fabric along the bottom; small opening in the side of traditional Japanese clothing (where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit); clothing with such an opening (usu. worn by women or children)


expression: 惑わす
reading: まどわす
tags: P v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to bewilder; to perplex; to puzzle; to delude; to mislead; to deceive; to tempt; to seduce; (P)


expression: 藁で束ねても男は男
reading: わらでたばねてもおとこはおとこ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) a man is still a man even if his hair is tied with straw; a man is still a man even if he's poor


expression: 椀子そば
reading: わんこそば
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl


expression: 腕ずもう
reading: うでずもう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) arm wrestling; Indian wrestling; (sumo) wrestling relying on brute strength (of the arms), rather than skill


expression: 腕によりをかける
reading: うでによりをかける
tags: exp v1
glossary:
(exp,v1) to put all one's skill (into doing something); to do something to the best of one's ability


expression: 腕を返す
reading: かいなをかえす
tags: exp v5s
glossary:
(exp,v5s) (sumo) to place one's arms under those of the opponent and lift them up, in order to prevent an overhand grip on one's mawashi


expression: 腕貫
reading: うでぬき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) arm glove; arm warmer; sleevelet; bracelet; leather thread on guard or pommel of a sword; hole in the butt end of a Chinese spear


expression: 乘る
reading: のる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(oK) (v5r,vi) to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to board; to take; to embark; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to jump on; to sit on; to mount; to reach; to go over; to pass; to follow; to stay (on track); to go with (the times, etc.); to take part; to participate; to join; to get into the swing (and sing, dance, etc.); to be deceived; to be taken in; to be carried; to be spread; to be scattered; to stick; to attach; to take; to go on


expression: 仆れる
reading: たおれる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to be forced to bed (by illness, etc.); to die; to go bankrupt; to be ruined; to have a bad debt; to be defeated (in a game); to fall (of governments, dictators, etc.)


expression: 估券
reading: こけん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) dignity; credit; public estimation; face; honor; reputation; (arch) deed of sale (for a land, forest or house); (arch) sale value; selling price


expression: 佗
reading: わび
tags: n
glossary:
(iK) (n) the beauty to be found in poverty and simplicity; subdued taste; quiet refinement; sober refinement; wabi


expression: 侘
reading: わび
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) the beauty to be found in poverty and simplicity; subdued taste; quiet refinement; sober refinement; wabi


expression: 侘び
reading: わび
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the beauty to be found in poverty and simplicity; subdued taste; quiet refinement; sober refinement; wabi


expression: 來る
reading: くる
tags: aux-v vi vk
glossary:
(oK) (vk,vi,aux-v) to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to arrive; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become; to get; to grow; to continue; (vk,vi) to come from; to be caused by; to derive from; to come to (i.e. "when it comes to spinach ...")


expression: 俟つ
reading: まつ
tags: v5t vi vt
glossary:
(v5t,vt,vi) to await; to look forward to; to anticipate; (usu. in negative form) to depend on; to need


expression: 俎の鯉
reading: まないたのこい
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) confronted with a hopeless situation; about to be cut off (e.g. in a battle) and unable to do anything


expression: 俘囚
reading: ふしゅう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) prisoner; captive; prisoner of war; Emishi allied with the Japanese during the Nara and Heian periods


expression: 俯仰天地
reading: ふぎょうてんち
tags: n
glossary:
(n) looking up and down, from heaven to earth (having nothing to be ashamed of); swearing by Heaven and Earth (having done nothing to be ashamed of)


expression: 俯伏す
reading: うつぶす
tags: v5s vi
glossary:
(iK) (v5s,vi) to lie face down (e.g. on the ground, napping on a desk); to lie prone; (arch) to lower (one's head, gaze, etc.)


expression: 俯瞰
reading: ふかん
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) overlooking; looking down at; having an overhead view; having a bird's-eye view; having a high-angle view


expression: 偕老同穴
reading: かいろうどうけつ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) happy life partnership; (uk) Venus's flower basket (species of sponge, Euplectella aspergillum); Venus flower basket


expression: 傲る
reading: おごる
tags: v5r vi vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to give (someone) a treat; (v5r,vi) to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty


expression: 僭上越権
reading: せんじょうえっけん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) exceeding (overstepping) one's powers (competence, authority); abuse of one's legal authority; acting ultra vires


expression: 價
reading: あたい
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(oK) (n,adj-no) price; cost; value; worth; merit; (math) value; count; number; (comp) variable (computer programming, programing)


expression: 儚い
reading: はかない
tags: P adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) fleeting; transient; short-lived; momentary; ephemeral; fickle; vain; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility); (P)


expression: 冱える
reading: さえる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp; to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake; to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful; to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute; to be satisfying; to become frigid; to become intensely cold


expression: 處
reading: ところ
tags: n suf
glossary:
(oK) (n,suf) place; spot; scene; site; address; district; area; locality; one's house; point; part; space; room; (uk) whereupon; as a result; (after present form of a verb) about to; on the verge of; (after past form of a verb) was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing


expression: 凭れる
reading: もたれる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) (uk) to lean against; to lean on; to recline on; (uk) to lie heavy (on the stomach); to be uneasily digested; (P)


expression: 刎ねる
reading: はねる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to refuse; to eliminate; to exclude; to leave out; to flip; to splash; to splatter; to decapitate; to behead; to jump up; to point or curl up (e.g. ends of hair)


expression: 刳い
reading: えぐい
tags: adj-i int
glossary:
(adj-i) (uk) harsh; acrid; pungent; astringent; strong-minded; heartless; inconsiderate; (adj-i,int) (uk) (sl) nasty; gross; (uk) (sl) amazing


expression: 刳る
reading: えぐる
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to gouge; to hollow out; to bore; to excavate; to scoop out; to greatly perturb; to cause emotional pain; to get to the bottom of things; to relentlessly bring the truth to light


expression: 剋
reading: こく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) archaic period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); victory; strictness; cruelty


expression: 剌激
reading: しげき
tags: n vs
glossary:
(iK) (n,vs) stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation; excitement; thrill


expression: 劍
reading: けん
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) sword (originally esp. a doubled-edged sword); sabre; saber; blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor; dart


expression: 劈頭第一
reading: へきとうだいいち
tags: n
glossary:
(n) at the outset; at the very beginning; in the first place; to begin (start) with; first and foremost


expression: 辨
reading: べん
tags: n n-suf
glossary:
(oK) (n,n-suf) (abbr) bento; Japanese box lunch; (n) Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)


expression: 辨官
reading: おおともいのつかさ
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (ok) (n) Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)


expression: 辨官
reading: べんかん
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)


expression: 辨慶
reading: べんけい
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) strong person; person putting on a brave front; bamboo tube with holes drilled in it (used as a stand for kitchen utensils, fans, etc.); (abbr) checks; plaid; checked pattern


expression: 吮癰舐痔
reading: せんようしじ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) currying favour (favor); brown-nosing; bootlicking; sucking pus from carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids (haemorrhoids)


expression: 吶喊
reading: とっかん
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n) battlecry; cheer; cry where one breathes in a large volume of air and then releases it suddenly in a loud cry; (n,vs) rushing at the enemy


expression: 咎める
reading: とがめる
tags: P v1
glossary:
(v1) to blame; to find fault; to challenge; to threaten; to take someone to task; to aggravate (an injury); (P)


expression: 呻る
reading: うなる
tags: v5r vi vt
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to growl; to hum (e.g. engine, wires in wind); to buzz; to sough; low, dull sound; to ooh and aah (in admiration); (v5r,vt) to sing in a strong, low voice (esp. traditional chant or recitation)


expression: 咄す
reading: はなす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat; to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss; to speak (a language)


expression: 啖う
reading: くう
tags: v5u vt
glossary:
(oK) (v5u,vt) (male) (vulg) to eat; to live; to make a living; to survive; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of; to encroach on; to eat into; to consume; to defeat a superior; to threaten a position; to consume time and-or resources; (col) to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event); (male) (vulg) to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time


expression: 唸り
reading: うなり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) groan; moan; roar; howl; growl; bellow; hum (e.g. motor); buzz (e.g. bee, wire in wind); sough; (music) (physics) beat tone; beats


expression: 唸る
reading: うなる
tags: P v5r vi vt
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to growl; to hum (e.g. engine, wires in wind); to buzz; to sough; low, dull sound; to ooh and aah (in admiration); (v5r,vt) to sing in a strong, low voice (esp. traditional chant or recitation); (P)


expression: 嗚呼
reading: ああ
tags: int
glossary:
(ateji) (int) (uk) Ah!; Oh!; Alas!; (uk) Yes; Indeed; That is correct; (uk) Hey!; Yo!; (uk) Uh huh; Yeah yeah; Right; Gotcha


expression: 嗜み
reading: たしなみ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) taste (in goods, etc.); manners; etiquette; modesty; restraint; prudence; knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.); accomplishments; taking care of one's personal appearance


expression: 嗜む
reading: たしなむ
tags: v5m vt
glossary:
(v5m,vt) (uk) to have a taste for; to be fond of; to have an interest in (e.g. a hobby); to be modest; to be prudent


expression: 嗜好品
reading: しこうひん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) luxury grocery item (e.g. alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco); indulgence; something consumed for taste or stimulant effect rather than nourishment


expression: 嘯く
reading: うそぶく
tags: v5k vi
glossary:
(v5k,vi) (uk) to boast; to brag; (uk) to recite (a song or poem to oneself); (uk) to bark; to roar; to howl


expression: 嚆矢
reading: こうし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) arrow to which is attached a turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn; whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle; the start of things


expression: 嚔
reading: くさめ
tags: exp n
glossary:
(n) (uk) sneeze; (exp) (id) (uk) spoken twice in response to someone sneezing as a charm against an early death


expression: 嚼む
reading: かむ
tags: v5m vt
glossary:
(v5m,vt) to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore); to engage (of cogs, zippers, etc.); to mesh; to fit together; to be involved in; to fumble one's words (during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; (arch) to strongly confute; to argue down; to rebuke; to scold harshly


expression: 囃子言葉
reading: はやしことば
tags: n
glossary:
(n) meaningless words in a song for rhythm; words or utterances added to modulate the cadence of a song


expression: 國
reading: くに
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) country; (the) state; region; (obs) province (of Japan); home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch) land; earth


expression: 垓
reading: がい
tags: num
glossary:
(num) 10^20; 100,000,000,000,000,000,000; hundred quintillion (short scale); hundred trillion (long scale)


expression: 毀す
reading: こわす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to break; to destroy; to demolish; to wreck; to ruin; to spoil; to damage; to break (a bill, etc.)


expression: 毀壊
reading: きかい
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) breaking; demolishing; smashing; destroying; wrecking; being broken; being ruined; being destroyed; being worn out


expression: 壅がる
reading: ふさがる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(oK) (v5r,vi) to be closed; to be blocked; to be healed (e.g. wound); to be shut up; to be clogged; to be plugged up; to be occupied; to be taken (e.g. accommodation)


expression: 壅がる
reading: ふたがる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(oK) (ok) (v5r,vi) to be closed; to be blocked; to be healed (e.g. wound); to be shut up; to be clogged; to be plugged up; to be occupied; to be taken (e.g. accommodation)


expression: 壅ぐ
reading: ふさぐ
tags: v5g vt
glossary:
(v5g,vt) to stop up; to close up; to block (up); to plug up; to shut up; to cover (ears, eyes, etc.); to close (eyes, mouth); to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up; to take up; to perform one's role; to do one's duty; (v5g) to feel depressed; to mope


expression: 壼
reading: つふ
tags: n
glossary:
(iK) (ok) (n) jar; pot; vase; dice cup; depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall); (arch) target (when aiming an arrow); (figurative) bull's-eye; key point (of a conversation, etc.); acupuncture point; moxibustion point; nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.)


expression: 壼
reading: つぼ
tags: n
glossary:
(iK) (n) jar; pot; vase; dice cup; depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall); (arch) target (when aiming an arrow); (figurative) bull's-eye; key point (of a conversation, etc.); acupuncture point; moxibustion point; nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.)


expression: 奕々
reading: えきえき
tags: adj-t
glossary:
(adj-t) (arch) brilliant; glorious; shining; (arch) beautiful and thriving; (arch) piled high; large; (arch) (obsc) indecisive with fear


expression: 奢る
reading: おごる
tags: P v5r vi vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to give (someone) a treat; (v5r,vi) to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty; (P)


expression: 娑婆
reading: しゃば
tags: n
glossary:
(n) this world; this life; (col) the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.); (Buddh) this corrupt world; present world


expression: 媚びる
reading: こびる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to flatter; to curry favor with; to curry favour with; to fawn on; to butter up to; to flirt with (woman with a man); to make eyes at (a man)


expression: 媚る
reading: こびる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(io) (v1,vi) to flatter; to curry favor with; to curry favour with; to fawn on; to butter up to; to flirt with (woman with a man); to make eyes at (a man)


expression: 嬲る
reading: なぶる
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) (uk) to tease; to make fun of; to make sport of; to torment; to blame; to persecute; to tamper


expression: 孕む
reading: はらむ
tags: P v5m vi vt
glossary:
(v5m) to conceive; to become pregnant; (v5m,vt) to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (e.g. contradiction or danger); (v5m,vi) to be swollen and ripe (of a plant ear, head, or sprout); (P)


expression: 孰れ
reading: いずれ
tags: adj-no adv pn
glossary:
(adv,pn,adj-no) (uk) where; which; who; anyway; anyhow; at any rate; sooner or later; eventually; at some future date or time


expression: 寐る
reading: ねる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to lie down; to go to bed; to lie in bed; to sleep (lying down); to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie idle


expression: 屁をひって尻窄め
reading: へをひってしりつぼめ
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) there's no point squeezing your buttocks after you have farted; no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted


expression: 屆ける
reading: とどける
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(oK) (v1,vt) to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities); to give notice; to register


expression: 屹然
reading: きつぜん
tags: adj-t adv-to
glossary:
(adv-to,adj-t) (arch) towering; lofty; standing out without the influence of others; in splendid isolation


expression: 屹度
reading: きっと
tags: P adv n
glossary:
(adv,n) (uk) surely; undoubtedly; almost certainly; most likely (e.g. 90 percent); (uk) sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid; stiff; tight; (arch) suddenly; abruptly; instantly; (P)


expression: 嵌める
reading: はめる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) (uk) to insert; to put in (such that there is a snug fit); to button; to put on (something that envelops, e.g. gloves, ring); (col) to have sex; to fuck; to pigeonhole (into a particular category); to place a ring-shaped object around something (esp. one that restricts freedom, such as handcuffs); to entrap; to set someone up (i.e. frame them for a crime, etc.); (P)


expression: 巫山戯る
reading: ふざける
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(ateji) (v1,vi) (uk) to joke; to jest; to kid; to josh; (uk) to make fun of; to laugh at; to play a prank; (uk) to romp; to gambol; to frolic; to frisk; to mess around; to fool around; to screw around; (uk) to neck; to make out; (P)


expression: 已める
reading: やめる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to end; to quit; to cancel; to abandon; to give up; to abolish; to abstain; to refrain


expression: 已後
reading: いご
tags: n-adv n-t
glossary:
(n-adv,n-t) after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (verb) (after -te form of verb); after (time); since (then)


expression: 已上
reading: いじょう
tags: n-adv n-t
glossary:
(n-adv,n-t) not less than; ... and more; ... and upwards; beyond ... (e.g. one's means); further (e.g. nothing further to say); more than ... (e.g. cannot pay more than that); above-mentioned; foregoing; since ...; seeing that ...; this is all; that is the end; the end


expression: 帙
reading: ちつ
tags: ctr n
glossary:
(n) protective covering for books, often in the form of a folding case with clasps; (ctr) counter for book covers; (n) book cover or dust jacket


expression: 帷子
reading: かたびら
tags: n
glossary:
(n) light, thin, single-layer kimono (esp. from hemp or raw silk, for summer use); (abbr) shroud; burial clothes


expression: 廚子
reading: ずし
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors


expression: 廬山会議
reading: ろざんかいぎ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Lushan Conference (1959 meeting of the Communist Party of China to discuss the Great Leap Forward)


expression: 弭
reading: はず
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) expectation that something took place, will take place or was in some state; it should be so; bound to be; expected to be; must be; nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); (sumo) nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out


expression: 彷徨く
reading: うろつく
tags: P v5k vi
glossary:
(v5k,vi) (uk) to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander aimlessly; to knock around; to hang around; to be confused from not knowing what to do; (P)


expression: 恍ける
reading: とぼける
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play innocent; to have a blank facial expression; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage


expression: 悄気返る
reading: しょげかえる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to be dispirited; to be dejected; to lose heart; to become discouraged; to be crestfallen; to be utterly disheartened; to be despondent


expression: 惡い
reading: わるい
tags: adj-i
glossary:
(oK) (adj-i) bad; poor; inferior; evil; sinful; unprofitable; unbeneficial; at fault; to blame; in the wrong; sorry


expression: 惡戲
reading: いたずら
tags: adj-na adj-no n vs
glossary:
(oK) (n,vs,adj-na,adj-no) (uk) mischief; prank; trick; practical joke; (uk) pastime; hobby; (uk) playing with (a lighter, etc.); fooling around with; messing around with; amusing oneself with; tampering with; (uk) lewd behaviour; sexual misconduct; sexual assault; molestation; rape


expression: 惡戲
reading: いたづら
tags: adj-na adj-no n vs
glossary:
(oK) (ik) (n,vs,adj-na,adj-no) (uk) mischief; prank; trick; practical joke; (uk) pastime; hobby; (uk) playing with (a lighter, etc.); fooling around with; messing around with; amusing oneself with; tampering with; (uk) lewd behaviour; sexual misconduct; sexual assault; molestation; rape


expression: 憚る
reading: はばかる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence


expression: 懈い
reading: だるい
tags: adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) (uk) sluggish; languid; listless; heavy (heart, legs, etc.); dull; (uk) (sl) bothersome; tiresome


expression: 懺法
reading: せんぼう
tags: n n-suf
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) penitence by chanting sutras; confession (of sins); Tendai ritual of chanting Lotus Sutra or to Kanzeon, Amida, or Kichijoten for forgiveness of sins performed unknowingly; (n,n-suf) (Buddh) penitence sutra; (n) (Buddh) guidebook to penitence


expression: 戍る
reading: まもる
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(iK) (v5r,vt) to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe; to obey; to follow


expression: 截金
reading: きりかね
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs; cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds)


expression: 戲ける
reading: おどける
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(oK) (v1,vi) to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over; to talk foolishly


expression: 扣え
reading: ひかえ
tags: n n-suf
glossary:
(n) reserve; spare; backup; note; memorandum; (n,n-suf) duplicate; copy; stub (of a ticket, etc.); (n) waiting one's turn


expression: 扣える
reading: ひかえる
tags: v1
glossary:
(v1) to be temperate in; to refrain; to abstain; to hold back; to restrain oneself from excessive ...; to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number); to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for; to be soon; to be in the offing; to be in a close relationship (e.g. as a backer, etc.)


expression: 抔
reading: など
tags: n n-suf prt
glossary:
(n,n-suf,prt) (uk) et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth; (indicating an approximate quote or vague suggestion) or something; (lessening the significance or value of the previous word) the likes of


expression: 挾む
reading: はさむ
tags: v5m vt
glossary:
(oK) (v5m,vt) to interpose; to hold between; to insert; to be on either side (e.g. road); to be across (e.g. street, river); to be beyond


expression: 捏っち上げる
reading: でっちあげる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(io) (v1,vt) to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to hoax; to pull a hoax; to frame someone


expression: 掖
reading: わき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) armpit; under one's arm; side; flank; beside; close to; near; by; aside; to the side; away; out of the way; off-track; off-topic; deuteragonist; supporting role; (abbr) second verse (in a linked series of poems)


expression: 揉む
reading: もむ
tags: P v5m vt
glossary:
(v5m,vt) to rub; to crumple (up); to wrinkle; to massage; to be troubled about; to worry over; to train; to coach; (P)


expression: 揉烏帽子
reading: もみえぼし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward)


expression: 揶揄う
reading: からかう
tags: P v5u
glossary:
(v5u) (uk) to ridicule; to tease; to mock; to chaff; to razz; to banter with; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make cracks about; (P)


expression: 搦め手
reading: からめて
tags: n
glossary:
(n) rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance; one who arrests; force attacking the rear of a castle; (opponent's) weak point


expression: 搦手
reading: からめて
tags: n
glossary:
(io) (n) rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance; one who arrests; force attacking the rear of a castle; (opponent's) weak point


expression: 摧ける
reading: くだける
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to break (into pieces); to be broken; to be smashed; to collapse; to crumble; to decline; to cool (e.g. enthusiasm); to dampen (e.g. one's will to fight); to become less formal; to throw off reserve; to become affable; to become easy to understand (e.g. a story); to be worried


expression: 撥ねる
reading: はねる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to refuse; to eliminate; to exclude; to leave out; to flip; to splash; to splatter; to decapitate; to behead; to jump up; to point or curl up (e.g. ends of hair); (P)


expression: 撥鬢
reading: ばちびん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back)


expression: 擂潰す
reading: すりつぶす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(io) (v5s,vt) to mash; to grind; to pulverize; to pulverise; to deface; to dissipate (a fortune); to run through; to lose


expression: 擡頭
reading: たいとう
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) rise of; appearance of; raising one's head; coming to power; becoming famous; (being in the) forefront; prominence


expression: 擽ぐる
reading: くすぐる
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(io) (v5r,vt) (uk) to tickle; (uk) to tickle (one's fancy); to appeal; to flatter; to titillate; (uk) to amuse; to entertain


expression: 擽る
reading: くすぐる
tags: P v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) (uk) to tickle; (uk) to tickle (one's fancy); to appeal; to flatter; to titillate; (uk) to amuse; to entertain; (P)


expression: 攘夷
reading: じょうい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) expel the barbarians; expulsion of the foreigners; late Edo period (19th century) revolutionary slogan


expression: 敲き
reading: たたき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) seared skipjack tuna; (sl) robbery; extortion; hard-packed dirt (clay, gravel, etc.) floor; concrete floor


expression: 敲く
reading: たたく
tags: v5k vt
glossary:
(v5k,vt) to strike; to clap; to knock; to dust; to beat; to play drums; to abuse; to flame (e.g. on the Internet); to insult; (comp) to call; to invoke (e.g. a function)


expression: 變
reading: へん
tags: adj-na n n-pref
glossary:
(oK) (adj-na,n) strange; odd; peculiar; weird; curious; queer; eccentric; funny; suspicious; fishy; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance; disaster; accident; (n-pref) flat (music)


expression: 斛
reading: こく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) measure of volume (approx. 180.39 liters, 6.37 cub. ft.); measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)


expression: 暈繝
reading: うげん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) method of dying in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods


expression: 曚昧
reading: もうまい
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(oK) (adj-na,n) ignorance; (lack of) enlightenment or civilization (civilisation); unenlightened; uncivilized; uncivilised


expression: 朦々
reading: もうもう
tags: adj-t adv-to
glossary:
(adj-t,adv-to) dense (e.g. fog, dust, etc.); thick; vague (as in being unable to think clearly); dim


expression: 枉げる
reading: まげる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to bend (the truth); to distort; to twist; to pervert; to yield (a point); to depart (from a principle); to ignore (what one really thinks); to pawn


expression: 枷
reading: かせ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) shackles; fetters; irons; handcuffs; restraint; constraint; bonds (e.g. family); ties; binding relationship; binding relationships; encumbrance


expression: 框
reading: かまち
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) door frame; window frame; frame sections of the door or window that provide most of its structural integrity


expression: 栩葺
reading: とちぶき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) shingling using thick roof shingles; roof shingled in such a manner (usu. shrine buildings, noh stages, etc.)


expression: 梳る
reading: けずる
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to shave (wood or leather); to sharpen; to plane; to whittle; to pare; to scrape off; to shave off (e.g. a budget, expenses, a salary, etc.); to curtail; to cut down; to cross out; to reduce; to curtail; to remove; to erase; to delete


expression: 棊布
reading: きふ
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) (arch) (obsc) scattering (e.g. of islands, Go pieces, etc., often in a harmonious balance); dispersal; constellation; irregular spread


expression: 棘
reading: とげ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) thorn; spine; prickle; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words; (P)


expression: 棹
reading: さお
tags: ctr n
glossary:
(n) rod; pole; neck (of a shamisen, etc.); shamisen; beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance); single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese); (sl) penis; (ctr) counter for flags (on poles); counter for long, thin Japanese sweets (e.g. youkan)


expression: 榮耀榮華
reading: えいようえいが
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) wealth, prosperity, and arrogant splendor (splendour); (living sumptuously) intoxicated by wealth and power; luxury


expression: 櫃まぶし
reading: ひつまぶし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (food) (uk) chopped kabayaki eel on rice; eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and serve on rice


expression: 鬱陶しい
reading: うっとうしい
tags: P adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) (uk) gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; (uk) irritating; troublesome; (uk) heavy (weather); cloudy; (P)


expression: 鬱陶しい
reading: うっとおしい
tags: adj-i
glossary:
(ik) (adj-i) (uk) gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; (uk) irritating; troublesome; (uk) heavy (weather); cloudy


expression: 飮む
reading: のむ
tags: v5m vt
glossary:
(oK) (v5m,vt) to drink; to gulp; to swallow; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress; to accept (e.g. demand, condition); to make light of; to conceal


expression: 歸る
reading: かえる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(oK) (v5r,vi) to return; to come home; to go home; to go back; to leave; (baseb) to get home; to get to home plate


expression: 毫光
reading: ごうこう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (abbr) light that is said to be emitted from some hair or tuft in Buddha's forehead; ray of light from the tuft of white hair (between the eyebrows)


expression: 沁みる
reading: しみる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to pierce; to penetrate; to soak in; to permeate; to (enter a wound or sensitive area and) sting; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice)


expression: 泝る
reading: さかのぼる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to; to make retroactive


expression: 沮む
reading: はばむ
tags: v5m
glossary:
(v5m) to keep someone from doing; to stop; to prevent; to check; to hinder; to obstruct; to oppose; to thwart


expression: 洒落
reading: しゃれ
tags: P adj-na n
glossary:
(ateji) (adj-na,n) joke; pun; witticism; (adj-na) smartly dressed; stylish; fashion-conscious; refined; (P)


expression: 浙江財閥
reading: せっこうざいばつ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Zhejiang financial clique; Sekko Zaibatsu; clique from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, influential in Shanghai finance from late 1920s through 1930s


expression: 涅槃会
reading: ねはんえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month)


expression: 涅槃西風
reading: ねはんにし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) wind blowing on the day of the Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (15th day of the 2nd month)


expression: 涵養
reading: かんよう
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) cultivation (esp. character, virtue, moral sentiment); fostering; training; penetration, e.g. surface water into an aquifer


expression: 滿足
reading: まんぞく
tags: adj-na n vs
glossary:
(oK) (adj-na,n,vs) satisfaction; contentment; complacency; (adj-na,n) sufficient; enough; adequate; proper


expression: 游撃
reading: ゆうげき
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) raid; military attack by a mobile unit; hit-and-run attack; search-and-kill mission; search-and-destroy mission; military action without a predetermined target; attacking the enemy or assisting allies as the opportunity arises; (n) (abbr) shortstop


expression: 滄海桑田
reading: そうかいそうでん
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) The word is a scene of constant changes (as the blue sea changing into a mulberry field). (Chinese legend)


expression: 滔々
reading: とうとう
tags: adj-t adv-to
glossary:
(adv-to,adj-t) (obsc) torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing; (obsc) (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech); (obsc) flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times


expression: 灌頂
reading: かんじょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood; (Buddh) baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism); (Buddh) pouring water onto a gravestone; teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)


expression: 漲る
reading: みなぎる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) (uk) to be full to the brim; to overflow; to swell (e.g. river full of water); (uk) to be filled with (emotion, e.g. energy, passion, ardor); to be (brim) full of; to pervade (e.g. atmosphere with emotion)


expression: 澁い
reading: しぶい
tags: adj-i
glossary:
(oK) (adj-i) astringent; bitter; puckery; rough; harsh; tart; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); refined; quiet (and simple); sober; sombre; subdued; tasteful (in a quiet way); understated; sour (look); glum; grim; sullen; sulky; stingy; tight-fisted


expression: 濟む
reading: すむ
tags: v5m vi
glossary:
(oK) (v5m,vi) to finish; to end; to be completed; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry


expression: 瀉下
reading: しゃか
tags: adj-f n vs
glossary:
(n,adj-f,vs) catharsis; purgation; evacuation; purging the bowels; diarrhea; (n,vs) pouring out (water, etc.)


expression: 炙る
reading: あぶる
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) (uk) to warm (i.e. one's hands over a fire); to dry; to scorch; to broil; to toast; to grill


expression: 炒め煮
reading: いために
tags: n
glossary:
(n) stir-frying then boiling in liquid sauce; food that has been stir-fried and boiled in liquid sauce


expression: 炬燵
reading: こたつ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (uk) kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat; (P)


expression: 烟突
reading: えんとつ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); stovepipe; (sl) carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter


expression: 燻ぶる
reading: くすぶる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to smoke; to smoulder; to smolder; to sputter; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder; to seclude oneself; to live in obscurity; to stay in the same level (of social position, circumstances, etc.)


expression: 燻ぶる
reading: ふすぶる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to smoke; to smoulder; to smolder; to sputter; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to seclude oneself


expression: 爛れる
reading: ただれる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to be sore; to be inflamed; to be bleary; to fester; to be dissipated; to be dissolute; to indulge in


expression: 爲
reading: ため
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) good; advantage; benefit; welfare; sake; purpose; objective; aim; consequence; result; effect; affecting; regarding; concerning


expression: 爲に
reading: ために
tags: conj
glossary:
(oK) (conj) (uk) for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; in favor of; in favour of; on behalf of; because of; as a result of


expression: 牴触
reading: ていしょく
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) collision; conflict; being contrary; being incompatible; being inconsistent; being contradictory; being in violation (of the law, etc.)


expression: 犢鼻褌
reading: ふどし
tags: n
glossary:
(ateji) (n) (uk) loincloth; breechcloth; breechclout; traditional Japanese male underwear; kimono underskirt; (sumo) wrestler's ornamental apron


expression: 狡ける
reading: ずるける
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) (uk) to shirk one's duties; to be idle; to play truant; (uk) to come loose; to come undone; to get untied


expression: 狡兎死して走狗烹らる
reading: こうとししてそうくにらる
tags: exp v1
glossary:
(v1,exp) when the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off; when the nimble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked


expression: 獺祭
reading: だっさい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.; otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish)


expression: 甦る
reading: よみがえる
tags: P v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be revived; to be refreshed; to be restored; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back; (P)


expression: 當十錢
reading: とうじゅうぜん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) type of bronze Chinese coin first issued under Emperor Yuan of the Southern Liang dynasty worth the value of ten iron coins


expression: 疳
reading: かん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (in Chinese medicine) infantile neurosis characterized by crying at night and convulsions; temper; nerves


expression: 痒がる
reading: かゆがる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to complain of itching; to be bothered by an itch (or rash, etc.); to feel itchy; to have an itch (or rash, etc.); to itch


expression: 痞える
reading: つかえる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) (uk) to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.); to feel pressure; to feel pain


expression: 痺れる
reading: しびれる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to become numb; to go to sleep (e.g. a limb); to be excited; to be titillated; to be mesmerized; (P)


expression: 瘠せる
reading: やせる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) (uk) to become thin; to lose weight; to reduce (one's) weight; to slim; to be barren; to be infertile; to be sterile


expression: 癇の虫
reading: かんのむし
tags: n
glossary:
(ik) (n) convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness; bug thought to cause children's diseases


expression: 盡す
reading: つくす
tags: aux-v v5s
glossary:
(oK) (v5s) to exhaust; to run out; to devote; to serve (a person); to befriend; (aux-v) to do to exhaustion


expression: 睨みあわせる
reading: にらみあわせる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to weigh one thing against the other; to act in consideration of; to compare and take into consideration


expression: 睨む
reading: にらむ
tags: P v5m vt
glossary:
(v5m,vt) to glare at; to scowl at; to glower at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess; to suspect; to judge; to keep an eye on someone (e.g. a suspicious or untrustworthy person); to watch; to take account of; to take into consideration; (P)


expression: 睨めっこ
reading: にらめっこ
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) (uk) staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)


expression: 磬
reading: けい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples


expression: 祠堂
reading: しどう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) lay ancestral hall; hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners; small shrine


expression: 祟る
reading: たたる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to curse; to cast a spell; to haunt; to torment; to cause a bad result; to bring about a negative outcome


expression: 禹歩
reading: うほ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip; walking in large steps; walking with a disabled leg; someone with a disabled leg


expression: 稍
reading: やや
tags: P adj-f adv
glossary:
(adv,adj-f) (uk) a little; partially; somewhat; slightly; semi-; -ish; on the ... side; a short time; a while; (P)


expression: 稟議
reading: ひんぎ
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) reaching a decision by using a circular letter; reaching a decision via a document circulated to all employees


expression: 稟議制度
reading: りんぎせいど
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the system in government offices and business corporations in which draft proposals are prepared by someone in charge of the matter and circulated for collective deliberation and final approval by particular (designated) officials or executives


expression: 穢い
reading: きたない
tags: adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) dirty; filthy; foul; unclean; disordered; messy; untidy; poor (e.g. handwriting); indecent (language, etc.); dirty; vulgar; coarse; dastardly; mean; base; underhanded; stingy; greedy


expression: 穢多
reading: えた
tags: n
glossary:
(ateji) (n) (vulg) one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses)


expression: 竈
reading: くど
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the rear of an old-fashioned Japanese hearth from which smoke was exhausted; (in Kyoto dialect) the hearth itself


expression: 竦む
reading: すくむ
tags: v5m vi
glossary:
(v5m,vi) to freeze (from fear, etc.); to be unable to move (e.g. from surprise); to be paralyzed (with horror, etc.); to cower; to shrink in on oneself


expression: 笏
reading: しゃく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) shaku (flat wooden or ivory baton carried in the right hand when in ceremonial imperial or Shinto garb)


expression: 笊
reading: ざる
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; strainer; sieve; (abbr) (uk) zaru soba (soba served on a bamboo draining basket with dipping sauce); (col) (uk) strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish


expression: 笙
reading: しょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes; free-reed instrument used in Japanese court music


expression: 籠で水を汲む
reading: かごでみずをくむ
tags: exp v5m
glossary:
(exp,v5m) (obsc) like trying to scoop water with a basket (i.e. impossible, a waste of time & energy)


expression: 籠もる
reading: こもる
tags: P v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) (uk) to seclude oneself; to be confined in; to be filled (e.g. with emotion, satire, etc.); to be heavy (with); to be stuffy; to be implied; (P)


expression: 簀の子
reading: すのこ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) drainboard; floor grates; duckboard; slatted wood (e.g. used as a base for storing futons inside a cupboard)


expression: 簓子
reading: ささらこ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) notched bamboo rod rubbed with an implement similar to a bamboo whisk (used as a percussion instrument); wooden vertical batten


expression: 篳篥
reading: ひちりき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below)


expression: 糀
reading: こうじ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) mould grown on rice, barley, beans, etc. as a starter to make sake, miso, soy sauce, etc. (mold); malted rice; malt


expression: 紕う
reading: まよう
tags: v5u vi
glossary:
(v5u,vi) to lose one's way; to waver; to hesitate; to be of two minds over; to be puzzled; to be perplexed; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself; to turn in one's grave


expression: 紊れる
reading: みだれる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to be disordered; to be disarranged; to be disarrayed; to be disheveled; to be dishevelled; to be discomposed; to be upset; to get confused; to be disturbed; to lapse into chaos (due to war, etc.)


expression: 總領
reading: そうりょう
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) eldest child; oldest child; first-born child; child who carries on the family name; (arch) pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces; (arch) head of a warrior clan (Kamakura period)


expression: 綟
reading: もじ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) hemp yarn or linen thread woven into a coarse cloth used for mosquito nets, summer clothes, etc.


expression: 縣
reading: あがた
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.); (arch) countryside


expression: 縡
reading: こと
tags: n n-suf
glossary:
(oK) (n) thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; (n-suf) nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; (n,n-suf) (uk) alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as


expression: 縹緻
reading: きりょう
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) looks; features; personal beauty; ability; talent; calibre; caliber; capability; capacity; dignity; credit; estimation


expression: 繞
reading: にょう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji; kanji enclosure-type radical


expression: 缺ける
reading: かける
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to be chipped; to be damaged; to be broken; to be lacking; to be missing; to be insufficient; to be short; to be deficient; to be negligent toward; (of the moon) to wane; to go into eclipse


expression: 罐詰
reading: かんづめ
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(oK) (n,adj-no) packing (in cans); canning; canned goods; tin can; (n) confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work); being stuck in a confined space


expression: 罩める
reading: こめる
tags: v1 vi vt
glossary:
(oK) (v1,vt) to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); (v1,vi) to hang over; to shroud; to enshroud; to envelop; to screen


expression: 羈縻
reading: きび
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) tying down; fastening; binding; (n) jimi system; ancient Chinese self-rule administrative system


expression: 羞月閉花
reading: しゅうげつへいか
tags: n
glossary:
(n) the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt


expression: 羯鼓
reading: かっこ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (music) kakko; Japanese hourglass drum, played with sticks on both sides, traditionally used in gagaku


expression: 羹に懲りて膾を吹く
reading: あつものにこりてなますをふく
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (id) (obs) a burnt child dreads the fire; once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience


expression: 翡翠
reading: ひすい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) kingfisher (esp. the common kingfisher, Alcedo atthis); jade (gem); beautiful lustrous colour similar to that of the kingfisher's feathers


expression: 翳す
reading: かざす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) (uk) to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft; (uk) to hold one's hands out (e.g. towards a fire); (uk) to shade one's eyes, face, etc.


expression: 飜す
reading: ひるがえす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to turn over; to turn around; to change (one's mind); to reverse (one's decision); to take back (one's words); to fly (flag, etc.); to wave (skirt, cape, etc.)


expression: 飜る
reading: ひるがえる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to flutter (in the wind); to wave; to flap; to fly; to turn over; to flip over; to suddenly change (attitude, opinion, etc.); to suddenly switch; to alter; to flip


expression: 飜弄
reading: ほんろう
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) trifling with; toying with; playing with; making sport of; making fun of; leading around by the nose; tossing about (a ship)


expression: 聢り
reading: しっかり
tags: adv adv-to vs
glossary:
(adv,adv-to,vs) (uk) tightly (holding on); firmly; securely; (uk) strongly (built); solidly; sturdily; steadily; (uk) properly; well; sufficiently; hard (working, etc.); fully; completely; (uk) reliably; dependably; levelheadedly; shrewdly; wisely; cleverly


expression: 肚
reading: はら
tags: ctr n suf
glossary:
(n) abdomen; belly; stomach; womb; one's mind; one's real intentions; one's true motive; courage; nerve; willpower; generosity; magnanimity; feelings; emotions; wide middle part; bulging part; inside; interior; inner part; (physics) anti-node; (suf,ctr) counter for hard roe; counter for containers with bulging middles (pots, vases, etc.)


expression: 胚芽米
reading: はいがまい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (food) germ rice; half-milled rice; semi-polished rice; rice with the germ; rice polished to remove the bran but not the germ; milled rice with embryo buds


expression: 腱鞘炎
reading: けんしょうえん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (med) inflammation of a tendon (sheath); tendonitis; tendinitis; tenosynovitis; tenovaginitis; tendovaginitis


expression: 腥い
reading: なまぐさい
tags: adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) smelling of fish; fishy; smelling of blood; bloody; degenerate (of a monk); depraved; corrupt; fallen; worldly; mundane; secular; common; ordinary; fishy; suspicious; questionable


expression: 臘
reading: ろう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice; twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar; year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat)


expression: 臈
reading: ろう
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (Buddh) year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat); becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience


expression: 臈たける
reading: ろうたける
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to be elegant (usu. of a woman); to be graceful; to be refined; to become well-experienced; to mature


expression: 舍人
reading: しゃじん
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) servant; valet; footman; (arch) someone who works in close quarters with the emperor or imperial family; (arch) low-ranking official who works for the imperial family or nobility (under the Rituryo system); (arch) ox-tender for oxcarts; horse boy; honorary junior official of the Imperial Household Department's Board of Ceremonies involved in miscellaneous duties related to ceremonies


expression: 舍人
reading: とねり
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (gikun) (n) servant; valet; footman; (arch) someone who works in close quarters with the emperor or imperial family; (arch) low-ranking official who works for the imperial family or nobility (under the Rituryo system); (arch) ox-tender for oxcarts; horse boy; honorary junior official of the Imperial Household Department's Board of Ceremonies involved in miscellaneous duties related to ceremonies


expression: 舐める
reading: なめる
tags: P v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) (uk) to lick; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to make fun of; to make light of; to put down; to treat with contempt; to underestimate; (P)


expression: 艷やか
reading: あでやか
tags: adj-na
glossary:
(oK) (adj-na) (uk) glamorous; glamourous; charming; beguiling; bewitching; beautiful; fascinatingly elegant


expression: 苞
reading: つと
tags: n
glossary:
(n) straw-wrapped item; bundle of straw (containing a food item, etc.); local produce; souvenir; present; gift


expression: 苞苴
reading: ほうしょ
tags: n
glossary:
(ok) (n) straw-wrapped item; bundle of straw (containing a food item, etc.); local produce; souvenir; present; gift


expression: 苜蓿
reading: おおい
tags: n
glossary:
(ok) (n) toothed medick (Medicago polymorpha); hairy medick; bur clover; (col) white clover (Trifolium repens)


expression: 茘枝
reading: れいし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) litchi (Nephelium litchi); lychee; lichee; litchi nut; (abbr) bitter melon (Momordica charantia); bitter gourd; (abbr) Thais bronni (species of muricid gastropod)


expression: 莖茶
reading: くきちゃ
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) twig tea; stem tea; kukicha; tea made from twigs pruned from the tea plant during its dormant season


expression: 荳
reading: まめ
tags: n n-pref
glossary:
(n) legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, such as beans, peas, pulses, etc.); beans; peas; soya bean (soybean); soy (Glycine max); (col) female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); (food) (col) kidney; (n-pref) miniature; tiny; child


expression: 萬
reading: よろず
tags: adj-no n n-adv num
glossary:
(oK) (num) 10,000; ten thousand; (n,adj-no) myriad; (n-adv) everything; all; (n,adj-no) (arch) various


expression: 蓍
reading: めど
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) Chinese lespedeza (species of bush clover, Lespedeza cuneata); fortune-telling (using divination sticks)


expression: 蓼酢
reading: たでず
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (food) water pepper vinegar; vinegar infused and mixed with water pepper leaves, esp. served with salt-grilled sweetfish


expression: 藪の中
reading: やぶのなか
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) inability to discern the truth due to conflicting testimony (name derived the Akutagawa Ryuunosuke story "In A Grove")


expression: 薹が立つ
reading: とうがたつ
tags: exp v5t
glossary:
(exp,v5t) to become hard and fibrous; to go to seed; to have passed one's prime; to have lost the first bloom of one's youth


expression: 蘚苔植物
reading: せんたいしょくぶつ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (obsc) bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, inc. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)


expression: 虔む
reading: つつしむ
tags: v5m vt
glossary:
(v5m,vt) to be careful; to be discreet; to do in moderation; to refrain (from overdoing); to abstain; to be purified; to be chaste


expression: 虱潰し
reading: しらみつぶし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) very thorough search (for contraband, escaped convict, etc.); fine-tooth-comb search; exhaustive search; scouring


expression: 蜀
reading: しょく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Shu (one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty); Shu Han


expression: 蜀江の錦
reading: しょっこうのにしき
tags: n
glossary:
(n) type of red brocade originally from the ancient Chinese country of Shu and passed on in Japan; type of brocade made in Sichuan during the Ming period


expression: 蜊蛄
reading: ざりがに
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) (uk) crayfish (esp. Japanese crayfish, Cambaroides japonicus or red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii)


expression: 蠱
reading: まじ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) charmed and cursed; something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons


expression: 蠱物
reading: まじもの
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) (arch) charmed and cursed; something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons


expression: 蠧魚
reading: とぎょ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) true bristletail (any insect of order Thysanura, esp. of family Lepismatidae); Oriental silverfish (Ctenolepisma villosa); (derog) someone who is unable to apply what they have read


expression: 袂
reading: たもと
tags: n
glossary:
(n) sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve; vicinity (esp. of a bridge); foot of a mountain; base of a mountain


expression: 裘代
reading: きゅうたい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) fine monk's robes worn by members of the imperial household, nobility, councilors (councillors), etc.


expression: 裹む
reading: つつむ
tags: v5m vt
glossary:
(v5m,vt) to wrap up; to tuck in; to pack; to do up; to cover with; to dress in; (v5m) to conceal; to hide; to be engulfed in; to be enveloped by


expression: 褌
reading: ふどし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) loincloth; breechcloth; breechclout; traditional Japanese male underwear; kimono underskirt; (sumo) wrestler's ornamental apron


expression: 觀音菩薩
reading: かんのんぼさつ
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) Kannon (Bodhisattva); Kwannon; Goddess of Mercy; Bodhisattva of Compassion; Guan Yin; Kuan Yin


expression: 訛
reading: なまり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; patois; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation


expression: 訛り
reading: なまり
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (uk) accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; patois; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation; (P)


expression: 諄い
reading: くどい
tags: P adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) (uk) verbose; importunate; wordy; repetitious; long-winded; (uk) heavy (taste); rich; strong; cloying; gaudy; loud; (P)


expression: 謳う
reading: うたう
tags: P v5u vt
glossary:
(v5u,vt) to extol; to sing the praises of; to celebrate; to declare; to stipulate; to express; to state; to insist; (P)


expression: 謳われる
reading: うたわれる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to be famed; to be extolled; to have one's praises sung; to be celebrated; to be admired; to be stipulated; to be declared; to be clearly expressed


expression: 譏嫌
reading: きげん
tags: adj-na n
glossary:
(oK) (n) humour; humor; temper; mood; spirits; safety; health; well-being; one's situation; (adj-na) in a good mood; in high spirits; happy; cheery; merry; chipper


expression: 貪る
reading: むさぼる
tags: P v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) (uk) to covet; to indulge in; to deeply desire; to lust insatiably for; to devour greedily; (P)


expression: 貶める
reading: おとしめる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of; to cause to fall; to make decline


expression: 賤しい
reading: いやしい
tags: adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) lowborn; humble; lowly; vulgar; coarse; crude; mean; base; vile; shabby; greedy; gluttonous; avaricious


expression: 贔屓にする
reading: ひいきにする
tags: exp vs-i
glossary:
(exp,vs-i) to favor; to favour; to show favor to; to show favour to; to be partial to; to be a regular customer of


expression: 跛行婚
reading: はこうこん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) international marriage which is recognized in only one party's country (e.g. same-sex marriage, polygamy, underage marriage)


expression: 蹌踉めく
reading: よろめく
tags: P v5k vi
glossary:
(v5k,vi) (uk) to stagger; (uk) to misconduct oneself; to have a love affair; to waver; to feel some inclination; (P)


expression: 蹙める
reading: しかめる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) (uk) to pull a wry face; to screw one's face up; to pucker one's face; to scowl; to grimace; to frown


expression: 辯解
reading: べんかい
tags: adj-no n vs
glossary:
(oK) (n,vs,adj-no) justification; rationalization; pretext; explanation; exculpation; defence; defense; excuse; apology


expression: 辷る
reading: すべる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(v5r,vi) to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to slip; to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke); to drop; to go down; to come down; to fall (e.g. in status)


expression: 迚も
reading: とっても
tags: adv
glossary:
(adv) (uk) very; awfully; exceedingly; (before a negative form) (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)


expression: 迚も
reading: とても
tags: P adv
glossary:
(adv) (uk) very; awfully; exceedingly; (before a negative form) (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot); (P)


expression: 迚もじゃないが
reading: とてもじゃないが
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) (uk) (before a negative form) simply (cannot); definitely (cannot); absolutely (cannot); by no means


expression: 迹門
reading: しゃくもん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being


expression: 逞しい
reading: たくましい
tags: P adj-i
glossary:
(adj-i) (uk) burly; strong; sturdy; (uk) indomitable; indefatigable; strong-willed; resolute; bold; (uk) robust (vitality, appetite, economic growth, etc.); strong; (P)


expression: 迸り
reading: とばしり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) splash; spray; chance blow; by-blow; getting dragged into (a quarrel, etc.); getting mixed up in


expression: 邀える
reading: むかえる
tags: v1 vt
glossary:
(v1,vt) to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon; to invite; to approach (a certain time, a point in one's life, etc.)


expression: 醂す
reading: さわす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to remove the astringent taste from persimmons; to soak in water; to steep in water; to matte (with black lacquer)


expression: 鉈鎌
reading: なたがま
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) billhook; fascine knife; sickle-shaped tool with a sharp inner edge, halfway between a knife and an axe


expression: 錢
reading: せん
tags: n
glossary:
(oK) (n) hundredth of a yen; coin made of non-precious materials; (obs) one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency); (arch) one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass)


expression: 鐶
reading: かん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) ring; link; open spirals of heavy metal wire twisted into a kettle and used to lift it (tea ceremony)


expression: 鐵
reading: てつ
tags: adj-no n n-pref n-suf
glossary:
(oK) (n) iron (Fe); (adj-no,n) strong and hard (as iron); (n,n-suf,n-pref) (abbr) railway; (n,n-pref) (col) railway enthusiast


expression: 閊える
reading: つかえる
tags: P v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) (uk) to stick; to get stuck; to get caught; to get jammed; to clog; (uk) to be unavailable; to be busy; to be occupied; to be full; (uk) to be piled up (e.g. of work); (uk) to halt (in one's speech); to stumble (over one's words); to stutter; to stammer; (uk) to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.); to feel pressure; to feel pain; (P)


expression: 闊歩
reading: かっぽ
tags: n vs
glossary:
(n,vs) striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around


expression: 闌干
reading: らんかん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) guardrail; handrail; bannister; balustrade; parapet; (arch) (a person) shining like the stars or moon; (a person) crying endlessly


expression: 陞る
reading: のぼる
tags: v5r vi
glossary:
(oK) (v5r,vi) to ascend; to go up; to climb; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to; to advance (in price); to swim up (a river); to sail up; to come up (on the agenda)


expression: 隴を得て蜀を望む
reading: ろうをえてしょくをのぞむ
tags: exp v5m
glossary:
(exp,v5m) never being satisfied with what one gets, and always wanting more; give someone an inch and they will take a mile; taking Gansu only to want Sichuan


expression: 雉も鳴かずば撃たれまい
reading: きじもなかずばうたれまい
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries


expression: 霑う
reading: うるおう
tags: v5u vi
glossary:
(v5u,vi) to be moist; to be damp; to get wet; to be watered; to profit by; to receive benefits; to receive favors (favours); to become rich; to become at ease financially


expression: 霰
reading: あられ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) hail (esp. hailballs under 5 mm); graupel; (food) dicing; small cubes; (abbr) roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, etc.)


expression: 霽らす
reading: はらす
tags: v5s vt
glossary:
(v5s,vt) to dispel; to clear away; to refresh (oneself); to accomplish a goal; (arch) to make it sunny; to make clouds disappear


expression: 霽れる
reading: はれる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) to clear up; to clear away; to be sunny; to stop raining; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished


expression: 靠れる
reading: もたれる
tags: v1 vi
glossary:
(v1,vi) (uk) to lean against; to lean on; to recline on; (uk) to lie heavy (on the stomach); to be uneasily digested


expression: 頸肩腕症候群
reading: けいけんわんしょうこうぐん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) cervicobrachial syndrome; indicates pain, swelling, weakness and-or numbness in the neck-shoulder region. Used when specific diagnosis is not known.


expression: 飄々
reading: ひょうひょう
tags: adv adv-to
glossary:
(adv-to,adv) whistling (of the wind); blowing; fluttering (in the wind); waving; flapping; flying; tottering; staggering; aimlessly; wandering about; roaming; aloof from the world; easygoing; transcendental; detached


expression: 餃子
reading: ギョーザ
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (food) pot sticker; gyoza; crescent-shaped pan-fried dumplings stuffed with minced pork and vegetables; (P)


expression: 餃子
reading: ギョウザ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (food) pot sticker; gyoza; crescent-shaped pan-fried dumplings stuffed with minced pork and vegetables


expression: 餘り
reading: あまり
tags: adj-na adj-no adv n n-suf
glossary:
(oK) (adj-na,adv,adj-no,n,n-suf) (uk) remainder; rest; balance; remains; scraps; residue; remnant; (adv) not very (with negative sentence); not much; (adv,adj-no) surplus; excess; fullness; too much; (adv) overjoyed; overwhelmed; (n-suf) more than; over


expression: 餡
reading: あん
tags: P n
glossary:
(n) (food) red bean paste; red bean jam; anko; (food) kudzu sauce; (food) filling (of a dumpling, bun, etc., e.g. ground meat, vegetables, bean paste); filling (generally); a substance wrapped in something else (e.g. cushion stuffing); (P)


expression: 餡餅
reading: あんも
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (fem) mochi rice cake with red bean jam filling; mochi rice cake covered in red bean jam; mochi rice cake


expression: 饕餮
reading: とうてつ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) tao-tie (mythological Chinese creature engraved on bronzeware during the Shang & Zhou dynasties); (used as a metaphor for a) brutal person; coveting of wealth (property, etc.)


expression: 饕餮文
reading: とうてつもん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) tao-tie engraving; figure of a creature of Chinese mythology engraved on bronze ware during the Yin-Chou dynasty


expression: 駸々
reading: しんしん
tags: adj-t adv-to
glossary:
(adv-to,adj-t) proceeding quickly; flying (of time); rapidly; with great strides; (arch) running quickly (of a horse)


expression: 騙る
reading: かたる
tags: v5r vt
glossary:
(v5r,vt) to swindle; to cheat; to take (something) away by deception; to misrepresent oneself (as); to lie (e.g. about one's name or status); to falsify (e.g. a seal); to assume (a name); to pretend (to be)


expression: 騷ぐ
reading: さわぐ
tags: v5g vi
glossary:
(oK) (v5g,vi) to make noise; to make racket; to be noisy; to rustle; to swoosh; to make merry; to clamor; to clamour; to make a fuss; to kick up a fuss; to lose one's cool; to panic; to act flustered; to feel tense; to be uneasy; to be excited


expression: 驕兵必敗
reading: きょうへいひっぱい
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall


expression: 髻
reading: たきふさ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) place where hair is gathered together atop the head; hair tied (or pinned) together in this position


expression: 鬆
reading: す
tags: adj-no n
glossary:
(n) (uk) cavity (in old root vegetables, tofu, metal casting, etc.); pore; hollow; bubble; blowhole; (adj-no) (uk) porous; pithy; spongy


expression: 鬢そぎ
reading: びんそぎ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)


expression: 鬢差
reading: びんさし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (arch) (obsc) bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period)


expression: 鮓
reading: すし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (food) sushi; anything made with vinegared rice (may also contain vegetables, spices, fish, or other delicacies)


expression: 鯱
reading: さちほこ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being)


expression: 鯱
reading: しゃち
tags: n
glossary:
(n) (uk) orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus; (abbr) mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being)


expression: 鰊曇り
reading: にしんぐもり
tags: n
glossary:
(n) cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)


expression: 鰮
reading: いわし
tags: n
glossary:
(n) pilchard (esp. the Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus); sardine (esp. the sardine of the Japanese pilchard)


expression: 鰥寡孤独
reading: かんかこどく
tags: n
glossary:
(n) with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin


expression: 鵺
reading: ぬえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) Japanese chimera; mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and a snake tail; White's thrush (Zoothera dauma); man of mystery


expression: 鷸蚌の争い
reading: いつぼうのあらそい
tags: exp
glossary:
(exp) while two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it; the fight between the bird and the shell-fish ends in the fisherman's profit


expression: 鷽替
reading: うそかえ
tags: n
glossary:
(n) annual religious ceremony that occurs in Tenmangu where worshippers come to exchange their wooden bullfinch birds


expression: 鸞鏡
reading: らんけい
tags: n
glossary:
(n) mirror with a mythical Chinese bird carved into the back; (in Japan) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp)


expression: 麈尾
reading: しゅび
tags: n
glossary:
(n) priest's flapper made from the tail of a large deer; long stick with the tail of a large deer attached


expression: 黥く
reading: めさく
tags: v5k
glossary:
(v5k) (arch) (obsc) to have a facial tattoo (esp. one around the eye, one form of punishment in ancient Japan)


expression: 鼬の最後っ屁
reading: いたちのさいごっぺ
tags: exp n
glossary:
(exp,n) final emergency measure; final defence when one is cornered (defense); the final fart of a weasel


expression: 龕
reading: がん
tags: n
glossary:
(n) niche or alcove for an image; (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard


expression: ？？？
glossary:
ENAMDICT - Japanese Proper Name Dictionary File; Copyright Electronic Dictionary Research & Development Group - 2014; Created: 2014-12-27


expression: ＫＯＰＦ
reading: コップ
glossary:
(o) KOPF (Federacio de Proletaj Kultur-Organizoj Japanaj; Japanese Federation of Proletarian Culture Organizations)


expression: ＵＮＡＦＥＩ
reading: ユナフェイ
glossary:
(o) United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders; UNAFEI


expression: お菓子屋横丁
reading: おかしやよこちょう
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Okashiyayokochou (street in Kawagoe (Koedo), in Saitama-ken, known for its many traditional and contemporary candy and snack shops)


expression: アービタックス
tags: pr
glossary:
(pr) Erbitux (oncology treatment, distributed in Japan by Merck, ImClone Systems and Bristol-Myers Squibb)


expression: アジ研
reading: アジけん
glossary:
(o) (abbr) United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders; UNAFEI


expression: イース
tags: p pr
glossary:
(p) Ys (mythical city in Brittany); (pr) Ys (series of games based loosely on the same legend); Eythe


expression: キリスィマスィ島
reading: キリスィマスィとう
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Kiritimati island (Christmas island) (largest island of the Republic of Kiribati, site of the first successful British hydrogen bomb test)


expression: ゴルノバダフシャン自治州
reading: ゴルノバダフシャンじちしゅう
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Gorno-Badakhshanskaya Avtonomnaya Oblast; Gorno-Badakhshanskaya Autonomous Region; Gorno-Badakhshanskaya AO


expression: セルビア・モンテネグロ
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Serbia and Montenegro; Union of Serbia and Montenegro; Yugoslavia; Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Jugoslavija


expression: ダンボ
tags: p
glossary:
(p) DUMBO, acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City


expression: ティシュアー・ベ・アーブ
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Tishah b'Av; Tishah b'Ab; Tisha b'Av; Tisha b'Ab; Ninth of Av; Ninth of Ab; Fast of Av; Fast of Ab


expression: ナウイ
glossary:
(o) NAUI; National Association of Underwater Instructors (oldest diving education system) founded 1950


expression: ハヌカー
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Hanukkah; Hanukah; Hannukah; Chanukah; Chanukkah; Channukah; Channukkah; Festival of Lights; Feast of Lights; Feast of Dedication; Feast of the Dedication


expression: パディ
tags: m
glossary:
(m) Paddy; (o) PADI; Professional Association of Diving Instructors (largest diving education system) founded 1966


expression: フレーベル
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Frobel; Froebel (Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852, German educator and founder of kindergarten system)


expression: ポールヘンリ・スパーク
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgian statesman and Socialist leader, signed the Treaty of Rome on behalf of Belgium (1899.1.25-1972.7.3)


expression: マケドニア旧ユーゴスラビア共和国
reading: マケドニアきゅうユーゴスラビアきょうわこく
tags: p
glossary:
(p) the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (provisional name for Republic of Macedonia in United Nations)


expression: リース
tags: f p
glossary:
(p) Al-ith (Saudi Arabia); (f) Ri-su; Lyss; Lease; Leiss; Reece; Reith; Rhys; Ries; Riess; Riesz; Riis


expression: 欧州原子核研究機関
reading: おうしゅうげんしかくけんきゅうきかん
glossary:
(o) Organisation europeenne pour la recherche nucleaire; (orig.) Conseil Europeenne pour la Recherche nucleaire; CERN


expression: 化学及血清療法研究所
reading: かがくおよびけっせいりょうほうけんきゅうしょ
tags: c
glossary:
(c) Kagakuoyobi Kesseiryouhou Kenkyuusho (corporate name of Kaketsuken); Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute


expression: 伽耶
reading: かや
tags: f p
glossary:
(f) Kaya; (p) Gaya (4th-6th century confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley of southern Korea)


expression: 伽羅
reading: から
tags: f p
glossary:
(f) Kara; (p) Gaya (4th-6th century confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley of southern Korea)


expression: 加羅
reading: から
tags: f p s
glossary:
(f,s) Kara; (p) Gaya (4th-6th century confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley of southern Korea)


expression: 科学技術分野の文部科学大臣表彰
reading: かがくぎじゅつぶんやのもんぶかがくだいじんひょうしょう
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology


expression: 菓子屋横丁
reading: かしやよこちょう
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Kashiyayokochou (street in Kawagoe (Koedo), in Saitama-ken, known for its many traditional and contemporary candy and snack shops)


expression: 久松真一
reading: ひさまつしんいち
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Hisamatsu Shin'ichi (1889-1980) - philosopher, scholar of Zen Buddhism and master of the Japanese tea ceremony


expression: 宮内庁病院
reading: くないちょうびょういん
glossary:
(o) Imperial Household Agency hospital; Imperial Household Hospital; royal hospital; Hospital of the Imperial Household


expression: 宮良殿内
reading: みやらどぅんち
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Miyara Dunchi (residence of the government official in charge of the Miyara District in the Yaeyama Islands, southern Okinawa (during the Ryukyu Kingdom))


expression: 教育改革国民会議
reading: きょういくかいかくこくみんかいぎ
glossary:
(o) National Commission on Educational Reform; National Commission on Education Reform; National Congress for Educational Reform; National Council on Educational Reform


expression: 金融制度調査会
reading: きんゆうせいどちょうさかい
glossary:
(o) Financial System Research Council; Financial System Research Committee; Committee on Financial Systems Research


expression: 景徳伝灯録
reading: けいとくでんとうろく
glossary:
(wk) Jingde Chuandeng Lu (Record of the Transmission of the Lamp Published in the Jingde Era, 1004 CE Buddhist scripture)


expression: 建礼門院右京大夫
reading: けんれいもんいんうきょうのだいぶ
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Kenreimon'in (no) ukyou (no) daibu (official title of a poet of the late 12th-early 13th century who served at the imperial court)


expression: 古語拾遺
reading: こごしゅうい
glossary:
(wk) Gleanings from Ancient Stories (Inbe no Hironari, 807 CE); historical record from the Inbe clan


expression: 呉
reading: くれ
tags: p s
glossary:
(p,s) Kure; Wu (Chinese state ?-473 BCE, Chinese kingdoms 222-280 CE, 902-937 CE, region of China: Jiangsu south of the Yangtze)


expression: 呉
reading: ご
tags: g s
glossary:
(s,g) Go; Wu (Chinese state ?-473 BCE, Chinese kingdoms 222-280 CE, 902-937 CE, region of China: Jiangsu south of the Yangtze)


expression: 呉楚
reading: ごそ
tags: p
glossary:
(p) historical states of Wu and Chu (modern-day Jiangsu, Hunan and Hubei Provinces) (China); southern shore of the Yangtze


expression: 後円融天皇
reading: ごえんゆうてんのう
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Emperor Go-En'yuu (of the Northern Court); Go-En'yuu Tenno (1358-1393 CE, reigning: 1371-1382 CE)


expression: 後光厳天皇
reading: ごこうごんてんのう
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Emperor Go-Kougon (of the Northern Court); Go-Kougon Tenno (1338-1374 CE, reigning: 1352-1371 CE)


expression: 甲子園
reading: こうしえん
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Koushien (location of Koshien Stadium, where the Japan National High School Baseball Tournament is held)


expression: 項羽
reading: こうう
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Xiang Yu (aka Kou U) (232 BC-202 BC), general in the late Qin period, defeated by Liu Bang, founder of the Han Dynasty


expression: 高宗
reading: こうそう
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Gaozong (temple name given to a number of Chinese emperors, esp. Li Zhi, Zhou Gou, and Qianlong); Gojong (temple name given to a number of Korean emperors)


expression: 高度情報通信社会推進本部
reading: こうどじょうほうつうしんしゃかいすいしんほんぶ
glossary:
(o) Advanced Information and Telecommunication Society Headquarters; Headquarters for Promotion of Advanced Information and Communications Society


expression: 国際ペンクラブ
reading: こくさいペンクラブ
glossary:
(o) International PEN (International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists)


expression: 国際知的財産保護協会
reading: こくさいちてきざいさんほごきょうかい
glossary:
(o) Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriete Industrielle; International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property; AIPPI


expression: 国際法定計量機関
reading: こくさいほうていけいりょうきかん
glossary:
(o) Organisation internationale de metrologie legale; International Organization of Legal Metrology; OIML


expression: 国史大系
reading: こくしたいけい
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Kokushi Taikei (history text; orig. ed. by Taguchi Ukichi, pub. 1897-1904; rev. ed. by Kuroita Katsumi, pub. 1929-1964)


expression: 国富論
reading: こくふろん
tags: pr
glossary:
(pr) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith); The Wealth of Nations


expression: 黒い９月
reading: くろいくがつ
glossary:
(o) Black September (Palestinian extremist group responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics)


expression: 斎場御嶽
reading: せいふぁーうたき
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Seifautaki (primary sacred site during the era of the Ryukyu Kingdom, located on southern Okinawa Island)


expression: 在特会
reading: ざいとくかい
glossary:
(o) Zaitokutai (abbr); Zainichi Tokken o Yurusanai Shimin no Kai (The Citizens Group That Will Not Forgive Special Privileges for Koreans in Japan)


expression: 在日特権を許さない市民の会
reading: ざいにちとっけんをゆるさないしみんのかい
glossary:
(o) Zaitokukai; Zainichi Tokken o Yurusanai Shimin no Kai (The Citizens Group That Will Not Forgive Special Privileges for Koreans in Japan)


expression: 四睡
reading: しすい
tags: h
glossary:
(h) The Four Sleepers (Hanshan, Shi De and Fenggan sleeping together with a tiger, a common theme for Zen paintings)


expression: 鹿鳴館
reading: ろくめいかん
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Meiji-era Western-style building in downtown Tokyo, constructed in 1883 for entertaining foreign diplomats and dignitaries


expression: 七変化
reading: しちへんげ
tags: u
glossary:
(u) character from Cutie Honey (anime); Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge (anime, manga title); Shichihenge Tanuki Goten (1954 movie)


expression: 邪馬台国
reading: やまたいこく
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Yamataikoku; (Japanese history) a country that existed within Japan. Ruled by Queen Himiko in the third century AD


expression: 狩野永納
reading: かのうえいのう
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Kanou Einou (1634-1700) (descendant of the Kanou family who wrote the Honchou gashi, History of the Japanese painting)


expression: 十牛図
reading: じゅうぎゅうず
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Ten Ox-Herding Pictures (ten images and accompanying short poems in Zen iconography that use the herding of an ox as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)


expression: 女工哀史
reading: じょこうあいし
tags: pr
glossary:
(pr) The Tragic History of Female Factory Workers (reportage by Wakizo Hosoi, 1925); The Pathetic Life of Mill Girls


expression: 心中天網島
reading: しんじゅうてんのあみじま
glossary:
(wk) Shinjuu Ten no Amijima (Love Suicides at Amijima) - play by Chikamatsu, film by Masahiro Shinoda


expression: 神皇正統記
reading: じんのうしょうとうき
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Jinno Shotoki (Succession of Imperial Rulers in Japan, historical treatise by Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1339)


expression: 神羅
reading: しんら
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Shinra (fictional corporation featured in the video game "Final Fantasy VII" and its derivatives)


expression: 世界基督教統一神霊協会
reading: せかいきりすときょうとういつしんれいきょうかい
glossary:
(o) Unification Church (kor: Tongil Gyohoe); The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity


expression: 西ノ海嘉治郎
reading: にしのうみかじろう
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Nishinoumi I Kajirou, 16th sumo grand champion; (h) Nishinoumi II Kajirou, 25th sumo grand champion; (h) Nishinoumi III Kajirou, 30th sumo grand champion


expression: 西院の帝
reading: さいいんのみかど
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Saiin-no-Mikado (alternate name of Emperor Junna); Junna Tenno (786-840 CE, reigning: 823-833 CE)


expression: 曹操
reading: そうそう
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei, father of Emperor Cao Pi; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms


expression: 総務省
reading: そうむしょう
glossary:
(o) Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications)


expression: 太田垣蓮月
reading: おおたがきれんげつ
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Outagaki Rengetsu (female waka poet, 1791-1875, adopted the Buddhist name Rengetsu after the death of her husband)


expression: 大友皇子
reading: おおとものおうじ
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Prince Ohtomo (alternate name of Emperor Koubun); Koubun Tenno (648-672 CE, reigning: 671-672 CE)


expression: 竹取翁の物語
reading: たけとりのおきなのものがたり
tags: pr
glossary:
(pr) Taketori-no-Okina no Monogatari (alternate name for Taketori Monogatari: The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)


expression: 中琉文化経済協会
reading: ちゅうりゅうぶんかけいざいきょうかい
glossary:
(o) Sino-Ryukyuan Cultural and Economic Association (previous name of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office)


expression: 土佐の院
reading: とさのいん
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Tosa-no-In (alternate name of Emperor Tsuchimikado); Tsuchimikado Tenno (1195-1231 CE, reigning: 1198-1210 CE)


expression: 東亜友愛事業組合
reading: とうあゆうあいじぎょうくみあい
glossary:
(o) East Asia Friendship Enterprises Association (largely ethnic-Korean yakuza group based in Tokyo)


expression: 楢山節考
reading: ならやまぶしこう
glossary:
(wk) Narayama Bushikou -The Ballad of Narayama (1954 novel by Fukazawa Shichirou, 1983 film by Imamura Shouhei)


expression: 南海諸島
reading: なんかいしょとう
tags: p
glossary:
(p) South China Sea Islands (incl. the Spratly Islands, Macclesfield Islands, Paracel Islands and Pratas Islands)


expression: 梅ヶ谷藤太郎
reading: うめがたにとうたろう
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Umegatani I Toutarou, 15th sumo grand champion; (h) Umegatani II Toutarou, 20th sumo grand champion


expression: 八都県市
reading: はちとけんし
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Tokyo, Kanagawa prefecture, Chiba prefecture, Saitama prefecture, and the cities of Yokohama, Kawasaki, Chiba, and Saitama


expression: 弼馬温
reading: ひっばおん
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Protector of the Stables (title given to Son Goku (in the novel "Saiyuuki") when he is given a job in Heaven)


expression: 百丈清規
reading: ひゃくじょうしんぎ
glossary:
(wk) Pure Rules of Huaihai (set of monastery regulations said to have been written by Baizhang Huaihai)


expression: 風土記
reading: ふどき
tags: pr
glossary:
(pr) Fudoki (ancient geographical and cultural records of each Japanese province, compiled in the early 8th century)


expression: 碧巌録
reading: へきがんろく
tags: pr
glossary:
(pr) Blue Cliff Record; Biyan Lu (collection of Zen Buddhist koans compiled in China during the Song Dynasty)


expression: 方丈記
reading: ほうじょうき
tags: u
glossary:
(u) An Account of My Hut; The Ten Foot Square Hut (collection of essays in the Buddhist eremitic tradition, written by Kamo no Chome in 1212)


expression: 名義抄
reading: みょうぎしょう
tags: pr
glossary:
(pr) Myogisho (abbr. of Ruiju Myogisho, a Japanese-Chinese character dictionary from the late Heian Period)


expression: 流求
reading: りゅうきゅう
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Liuqiu (Chinese name for islands in the East China Sea, perhaps referring to Ryukyu or Taiwan); Lewchew


expression: 梁塵秘抄
reading: りょうじんひしょう
tags: u
glossary:
(u) Songs to Make the Dust Dance (by Goshirakawahouou (1127.10.18-1192.4.26); The Dance of the Dust on the Rafters


expression: 鈴木安蔵
reading: すずきやすぞう
tags: h
glossary:
(h) Suzuki Yasuzou (1904-1983.8.7), constitutional scholar, instrumental in the creation of Japan's modern (post-war) constitution


expression: 渤海
reading: ぼっかい
tags: p
glossary:
(p) Bohai (kingdom in Manchura and N. Korea, established after the fall of Goguryeo); Pohai; Bohai; Balhae; Bokkai


