# dict

kanji: 活字離れ
kana: かつじばなれ
entry:
(n,adj-no) aliteracy/loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature


kanji: 襷
kana: たすき
entry:
(n) cord used to tuck up the sleeves of a kimono/wrapper on books, CDs, etc./sash (e.g. worn across chest)


kanji: 赤
kana: あか
entry:
(n,col,abbr,adj-no,n-pref) red/crimson/scarlet/red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange)/Red (i.e. communist)/red light/red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading)/(in) the red


kanji: 豚骨
kana: とんこつ
entry:
(n) dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)


kana: ぺこん
entry:
(adv,adv-to) sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back/action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head


kanji: 麺麻
kana: めんま
entry:
(n,uk,sens) bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt


kanji: 麺麻
kana: めんま
entry:
麺麻 [メンマ] /(n,uk,sens) bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt/


kanji: 麺媽
kana: めんま
entry:
麺媽 [メンマ] /(n,uk,sens) bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt/


kanji: 支那竹
kana: しなちく
entry:
(n,sens) bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt


kanji: 真秀呂場
kana: まほろば
entry:
(n,uk,ateji) great and splendid land (of Yamato)/spiritual center of the land/one's spiritual home/excellent location/splendid place


kanji: 社
kana: しゃ
entry:
(n,n-suf,abbr,ctr,suf) company/association/society/regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour)/counter for companies, shrines, etc.


kanji: 要介護
kana: ようかいご
entry:
(n) primary nursing care/nursing care level (with number between 1 and 5 based on assessed care needs)


kanji: 首を突っ込む
kana: くびをつっこむ
entry:
(exp) to poke one's nose into another's affairs/to have a hand in/to take a (deep) interest in/to poke one's head (into a room)


kanji: 協議書
kana: きょうぎしょ
entry:
(n) memorandum of agreement/agreement/memorandum of understanding/MOU/letter of intent/heads of agreement


kanji: 二次こん
kana: にじこん
entry:
二次コン [にじコン] /(n) two-dimensional complex/people more interested in two-dimensional (i.e. anime or manga) girls than real people/


kanji: 連続画像
kana: れんぞくがぞう
entry:
(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)


kanji: 連画
kana: れんが
entry:
(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)


kanji: 暖簾代
kana: のれんだい
entry:
(n) goodwill/intangible assets (part of the acquisition price of a business paid for the name and reputation of the company rather than tangible assets)


kana: たい
entry:
(aux-adj,prt,suf,adj-i) (after the -masu stem of a verb) want to ... do something/would like to .../(at sentence-end) indicates emphasis/(after a noun or the -masu stem of a verb) very .../(P)


kanji: 里山
kana: さとやま
entry:
(n) undeveloped woodland near populated area/settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes


kanji: 杯
kana: はい
entry:
(n,suf,ctr) sake cup/cup for alcoholic beverages/counter for cupfuls/counter for ships, octopuses and squid


kanji: 杯
kana: はた
entry:
(n,suf,ctr,ok) sake cup/cup for alcoholic beverages/counter for cupfuls/counter for ships, octopuses and squid


kanji: 知恵の輪
kana: ちえのわ
entry:
(n) puzzle ring/wire puzzle/exercise where students link crossed hands in a circle and try working together and without letting go


kanji: ぽい捨て
kana: ぽいすて
entry:
ポイ捨て [ポイすて] /(n) littering, esp. such things as empty cans, cigarette butts, dog faeces, etc. along roads, in parks, etc./careless tossing away/


kanji: ぽい捨て
kana: ぽいすて
entry:
ポイ捨て [ぽいすて] /(n) littering, esp. such things as empty cans, cigarette butts, dog faeces, etc. along roads, in parks, etc./careless tossing away/


kanji: ぽい捨て
kana: ぽいすて
entry:
ぽい捨て [ポイすて] /(n) littering, esp. such things as empty cans, cigarette butts, dog faeces, etc. along roads, in parks, etc./careless tossing away/


kanji: ぽい捨て
kana: ぽいすて
entry:
(n) littering, esp. such things as empty cans, cigarette butts, dog faeces, etc. along roads, in parks, etc./careless tossing away


kana: とれはろーす
entry:
トレハロース /(n) trehalose (used in foods as a sweetener, stabilizer and flavor enhancer) (stabiliser) (flavour)/


kanji: 目
kana: もく
entry:
(n,ctr) (biological) order/item (of a budget revision, etc.)/counter for go pieces/counter for surrounded positions (in go)


kanji: 公傷制度
kana: こうしょうせいど
entry:
(n) permission for sumo wrestler who was injured in an official tournament to be absent in the next one


kanji: 明け荷
kana: あけに
entry:
(n) luggage trunk for sumo wrestlers and referees/wicker basket for sumo wrestler's belt, apron, etc.


kanji: 横綱審議委員会
kana: よこづなしんぎいいんかい
entry:
(n) Yokozuna Deliberation Committee/body that recommends promotion of sumo wrestlers to grand champions


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


kanji: 四つ身
kana: よつみ
entry:
(n) cross-grips (situation in which each rikishi has an underarm grip on the other) (sumo)/kimono made for young children


kanji: 個人別総当り
kana: こじんべつそうあたり
entry:
(n) hypothetical rule allowing match-ups between sumo wrestlers regardless of their stable affiliation


kanji: 勝ち残り
kana: かちのこり
entry:
(n) winning sumo wrestler who remains ringside in case his involvement is needed in pre-bout rituals


kanji: 入れ換え戦
kana: いれかえせん
entry:
(n) match-up between sumo wrestlers from different divisions who will probably 'switch' divisions in new ranking


kanji: 赤鯛
kana: あかだい
entry:
(n,col) red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major)/fish given to sumo tournament winner as congratulations


kanji: 翌檜
kana: あすなろ
entry:
翌檜 [アスナロ] /(n) variety of cypress (Thujopsis dolabrat, also: hiba arborvitae)/Japanese elk-horn cedar/


kana: せふれ
entry:
セフレ /(n,abbr) sex friend (someone with whom one is not romantically involved but frequently has sexual relations with anyway)/


kanji: 歌物
kana: うたもの
entry:
(n) an utai (Noh chant) piece for recitation/accompanied singing in which the singing is emphasized over the instrumental part (emphasised)


kanji: 周天
kana: しゅうてん
entry:
(n) the full scope of the heavens/360 degrees/one full revolution of the earth/twelve years/one full cycle of the Chinese calendar


kana: ひたひた
entry:
(adv,on-mim) gradually/steadily/lapping (against, on, toward)/lightly submerging something (in water)


kana: えあきゃっぷ
entry:
エアキャップ /(n) plastic packing material with air bubbles/bubble wrap/cap on a tyre valve/brand of lawn mower/


kanji: えこのみーくらす症候群
kana: えこのみーくらすしょうこうぐん
entry:
エコノミークラス症候群 [エコノミークラスしょうこうぐん] /(n) economy class syndrome (occurrence of deep vein thrombosis in air travelers)/


kanji: 漢
kana: かん
entry:
(n,n-suf) (usu. used in compounds) China/Han (majority Chinese ethnic group)/man (often negative nuance)


kanji: 公私混同
kana: こうしこんどう
entry:
(n,vs) intermingling of public policy with private interest/mixing up official business with personal affairs


kanji: 殆どない
kana: ほとんどない
entry:
(exp) almost never/few and far between/little or nothing/hardly any/hardly anything at all/very little


kana: は
entry:
(prt) topic marker particle/indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)/adds emphasis/(P)


kana: が
entry:
(prt,conj) indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)/indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)/but/however/still/and/(P)


kana: も
entry:
(prt,adv) also/too/words of similar weight/about (emphasizing an upper limit)/as much as/even/more/further/other/again/(P)


kana: や
entry:
(prt,int,aux) such things as (non-exhaustive list related to a specific time and place)/and ... and/(after the dictionary form of a verb) the minute (that) .../no sooner than .../(P)


kana: で
entry:
(prt,conj) indicates location of action/at/in/indicates time of action/indicates means of action/cause of effect/by/and then/so/(P)


kana: を
entry:
(prt) indicates direct object of action/indicates subject of causative expression/indicates an area traversed/indicates time (period) over which action takes place/(P)


kana: たり
entry:
(prt,aux-v,arch) -ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going")/(used adverbially) doing such things as.../expresses a command/(after a noun) to be/indicates completion or continuation of an action/(P)


kana: だり
entry:
(prt,aux-v,arch) -ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going")/(used adverbially) doing such things as.../expresses a command/(after a noun) to be/indicates completion or continuation of an action


kana: なり
entry:
(prt) or/whether or not/(after dictionary form verb) as soon as/right after/(after past tense verb) while still/with previous state still in effect/(P)


kana: ね
entry:
(prt,int) (sentence end) indicates emphasis, agreement, request for confirmation, etc./is it so/hey/come on/(P)


kana: ねえ
entry:
(prt,int) (sentence end) indicates emphasis, agreement, request for confirmation, etc./is it so/hey/come on


kana: よ
entry:
(prt,int) (at sentence end) indicates indicates certainty, emphasis, contempt, request, etc./(after a noun) used when calling out to someone/(in mid-sentence) used to catch one's breath or get someone's attention/(P)


kana: な
entry:
(prt,abbr) (sentence end, mainly masc.) indicates emotion or emphasis/(used with masu stem verb) command/(used with dictionary form verb) prohibition/(P)


kana: さ
entry:
(suf,prt,int) -ness (nominalizing suffix indicating degree or condition)/(sentence end, mainly masc.) indicates assertion/come/come now/(P)


kanji: ばーこーど頭
kana: ばーこーどあたま
entry:
バーコード頭 [バーコードあたま] /(n) someone with hair combed in stripes across their bald spot (from barcode head)/


kana: い
entry:
イ /(n) 1st in a sequence denoted by the iroha system/1st note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)/


kana: ろ
entry:
ロ /(n) 2nd in a sequence denoted by the iroha system/2nd note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)/


kana: は
entry:
ハ /(n) 3rd in a sequence denoted by the iroha system/3rd note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)/


kana: に
entry:
ニ /(n) 4th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system/4th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)/


kana: ほ
entry:
ホ /(n) 5th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system/5th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)/


kana: へ
entry:
ヘ /(n) 6th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system/6th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)/


kana: と
entry:
ト /(n) 7th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system/7th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)/


kanji: 意匠惨憺
kana: いしょうさんたん
entry:
(n) taxing one's ingenuity in devising something/agonizing over designing or creating something/making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something


kanji: 易姓革命
kana: えきせいかくめい
entry:
(n) revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)


kanji: 干天慈雨
kana: かんてんじう
entry:
(n) welcome (beneficial) rain in a drought/realization of something eagerly looked for/a welcome relief


kanji: 感慨一入
kana: かんがいひとしお
entry:
(n,adj-na,adv) one's heart is filled with even deeper emotion/feeling the emotion all the more deeply


kanji: 頑迷固陋
kana: がんめいころう
entry:
(n,adj-na) obstinate/stubborn/hard-headed/being incapable of making sound judgments because of a narrow, inflexible and obstinate mentality


kanji: 機略縦横
kana: きりゃくじゅうおう
entry:
(n,adj-no) very resourcefully using tactics adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment/playing it by ear/acting according to circumstances


kanji: 琴瑟相和
kana: きんしつそうわ
entry:
(n,vs) pair of persons (especially a married couple) being intimate and harmonious/being happily married


kanji: 傾国傾城
kana: けいこくけいせい
entry:
(n) woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty/femme fatale


kanji: 鶏口牛後
kana: けいこうぎゅうご
entry:
(exp) better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull/better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization/better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond


kanji: 鶏鳴狗盗
kana: けいめいくとう
entry:
(n) person who resorts to petty tricks/a person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks


kanji: 狐狸妖怪
kana: こりようかい
entry:
(n) foxes and badgers (which used to be believed to bewitch humans) and all sorts of bogies/a sly fellow who does evil by stealth


kanji: 巧遅拙速
kana: こうちせっそく
entry:
(n) better being rough and ready than slow and elaborate/better being brisk and sharp than slow and prudent


kanji: 三界流転
kana: さんがいるてん
entry:
(n) endless cycle of rebirth through the three worlds of past, present, and future existences (Buddhist)


kanji: 志操堅固
kana: しそうけんご
entry:
(n,adj-na) being faithful to one's principles/being of firm purpose and deep commitment/constancy/true blue


kanji: 雌伏雄飛
kana: しふくゆうひ
entry:
(n,vs) biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish


kanji: 自家薬籠
kana: じかやくろう
entry:
(n) (something that is) available for use at any time/(someone who is) at one's beck and call/(something over which) one has complete mastery


kanji: 自力更正
kana: じりきこうせい
entry:
(n,vs) working out one's salvation by own efforts/rehabilitating oneself by one's own efforts/rectifying one's ways of life without replying on others' help


kanji: 人心一新
kana: じんしんいっしん
entry:
(n,vs) complete change in public sentiment/leading the thought of the people to an entirely different channel


kanji: 人品骨柄
kana: じんぴんこつがら
entry:
(n) personal appearance and physique/a person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character


kanji: 寸善尺魔
kana: すんぜんしゃくま
entry:
(exp) in evil, there is odds/there is more evil than good in this world/one good thing tends to cause many bad things to happen


kanji: 清濁併呑
kana: せいだくへいどん
entry:
(n) being so broad-minded as to accept all sorts of things, both good and evil/being broad-minded enough to be tolerant of people of all shades


kanji: 生々流転
kana: せいせいるてん
entry:
(n,vs) all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth/the circle of transmigration


kanji: 精力絶倫
kana: せいりょくぜつりん
entry:
(adj-na,n,adj-no) being of unbounded energy/being with matchless vigor/having endless sexual stamina


kanji: 先手必勝
kana: せんてひっしょう
entry:
(exp) victory goes to one who makes the first move/being quick to take action leads to victory/the early bird gets the worm


kanji: 先憂後楽
kana: せんゆうこうらく
entry:
(n) hardship now, pleasure later/seeking pleasure only after dealing with difficulties/seeking pleasure only after the happiness of the people is assured (a precept to be observed by a ruler)


kanji: 天網恢々
kana: てんもうかいかい
entry:
(exp) heaven's vengeance is slow but sure/heaven's net is wide and coarse, yet nothing slips through


kanji: 点滴穿石
kana: てんてきせんせき
entry:
(exp) constant dripping wears away the stone/little strokes fell great oaks/limited strength, when persistently applied, can accomplish great feats


kanji: 闘志満々
kana: とうしまんまん
entry:
(adj-no,adj-t,adv-to,uK) brimming with fighting spirit/being strong in the will to fight/burning with combativeness


kanji: 乳母日傘
kana: おんばひがさ
entry:
(exp) (bringing up a child) with greatest care pampering (him, her) with material comforts of a rich family/(being brought up) in a hothouse atmosphere


kanji: 罵詈讒謗
kana: ばりざんぼう
entry:
(n,vs) reviling/vilification/abusive language/lashing somebody using abusive language/speaking abusively of somebody


kanji: 杯盤狼藉
kana: はいばんろうぜき
entry:
(adj-t,adv-to,arch,uK) glasses and plates being scattered about after a party or banquet/articles lying about in a jumble


kanji: 非難囂々
kana: ひなんごうごう
entry:
(n,adj-t,adv-to) enraged outcry/loud protest/being bitterly criticized by others/being loudly denounced by others


kanji: 飛耳長目
kana: ひじちょうもく
entry:
(exp) sharp eyes and ears used for collecting information far and wide/having the acumen and shrewd discernment gained by widely-collected information/being well-versed on a subject


kanji: 百舌勘定
kana: もずかんじょう
entry:
(n) splitting the bill so that the others end up paying the whole amount/wheedling the others into paying the whole bill


kanji: 風流三昧
kana: ふうりゅうざんまい
entry:
(n) taking delight in elegant pursuits/being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy


kanji: 閉口頓首
kana: へいこうとんしゅ
entry:
(n,vs) being at a complete loss as to what to do/being at one's wit's end/being at a loss for an answer


kanji: 保革伯仲
kana: ほかくはくちゅう
entry:
(n,vs) conservatives and reformists being neck and neck/balanced conservative and progressive strengths


kanji: 万緑一紅
kana: ばんりょくいっこう
entry:
(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


kanji: 無為無能
kana: むいむのう
entry:
(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


kanji: 面目一新
kana: めんもくいっしん
entry:
(n,vs) undergoing a complete change in appearance/changing something out of all recognition/a rise in one's reputation


kanji: 面目躍如
kana: めんもくやくじょ
entry:
(adj-no,adj-t,adv-to,uK) with evident joy of having lived up to one's reputation/having an effect of bolstering one's reputation


kanji: 孟母三遷
kana: もうぼさんせん
entry:
(exp) the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning (lit: Mencius' mother, three moves)


kanji: 夜目遠目
kana: よめとおめ
entry:
(n) seen in the dark or at a distance/(a woman) looking prettier when seen in the dark or at a distance


kanji: 率先垂範
kana: そっせんすいはん
entry:
(n) set an example worth following/take the initiative in doing something thereby setting an example for others to follow


kanji: 論旨明快
kana: ろんしめいかい
entry:
(n,adj-na) the point of an argument being clearly stated/the tenor of an argument being well-reasoned


kanji: 和光同塵
kana: わこうどうじん
entry:
(n) mingling with the world by hiding one's true talent or knowledge/living a quiet life by effacing oneself


kanji: 笙
kana: しょう
entry:
(n) traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes/free-reed instrument used in Japanese court music


kanji: 身につく
kana: みにつく
entry:
(exp) to master (e.g. a skill)/to become accustomed to (e.g. a lifestyle)/to acquire (e.g. a habit)/to retain


kanji: 頭ごなし
kana: あたまごなし
entry:
(adv) unsparingly/without listening to the other party/without giving the other party a chance to explain


kana: あっけらかんと
entry:
(adv) quite indifferent/looking blank/looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on


kanji: 後追い心中
kana: あとおいしんじゅう
entry:
(n) suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover/following one's lover (husband, wife) into death


kana: あわよくば
entry:
(exp) if there is a chance/if possible/if circumstances permit/if things go well/if luck is on my side


kanji: 言いそびれる
kana: いいそびれる
entry:
(v1,vt) to fail to mention something or tell somebody something/to miss one's chance to tell somebody something


kanji: 痛い痛い病
kana: いたいいたいびょう
entry:
痛い痛い病 [イタイイタイびょう] /(n) "ouch-ouch disease", caused by cadmium poisoning from industrial wastes in Toyama Prefecture/


kanji: いたいいたい病
kana: いたいいたいびょう
entry:
イタイイタイ病 [いたいいたいびょう] /(n) "ouch-ouch disease", caused by cadmium poisoning from industrial wastes in Toyama Prefecture/


kanji: いたいいたい病
kana: いたいいたいびょう
entry:
イタイイタイ病 [イタイイタイびょう] /(n) "ouch-ouch disease", caused by cadmium poisoning from industrial wastes in Toyama Prefecture/


kanji: 打っちゃり
kana: うっちゃり
entry:
(n) Sumo trick of leaning back and carrying one's opponent round and out of the ring/last-minute reversal


kanji: 初
kana: うぶ
entry:
(adj-na,n,adj-no,n-pref) innocent/naive/unsophisticated/inexperienced/green/wet behind the ears/birth-


kanji: 振るう
kana: ふるう
entry:
(v5u,vt) to swing/to wield (physically)/to exert/to exercise/to wield (metaphorically)/to flourish/to prosper/to thrive


kana: ろにん
entry:
(n,ik) ronin/wandering samurai without a master to serve/out of work/waiting for another chance to enter a university


kanji: 無きゃ
kana: なきゃ
entry:
(suf,uk,col,abbr) unless one .../if one does not .../cannot do without something/(after negative base of verb) have to do


kanji: 空ける
kana: うつける
entry:
(v1,vi) to become empty (hollow)/to relax from a tense situation into a vacant or absent minded state


kana: うたり
entry:
ウタリ /(n) human (in Ainu)/one's fellow man/kin/comrade/self-referential term used by the Ainu about their people/


kanji: 機
kana: き
entry:
(n,ctr) chance/opportunity/machine/aircraft/counter for aircraft/counter for remaining lives (in video games)


kanji: 写めーる
kana: しゃめーる
entry:
写メール [しゃメール] /(n) email from mobile phones, containing pictures, etc./brandname for photo-email service from SoftBank Mobile/


kanji: 八分
kana: はっぷん
entry:
(n-t,n) eight minutes/triangular-swept clerical script (clerical script whose horizontal lines end in a noticable triangular tail)


kanji: 代表取締社長
kana: だいひょうとりしまりしゃちょう
entry:
(n) company president, with responsibility to represent the company in its dealings with the outside world


kanji: 財政調整基金
kana: ざいせいちょうせいききん
entry:
(n) financial adjustment monies/public finance adjustment reserve funds stipulated in the Local Finance Act


kana: けさらんぱさらん
entry:
ケサランパサラン /(n) flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness/


kana: けせらんぱせらん
entry:
ケセランパセラン /(n) flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness/


kana: てんさらばさら
entry:
テンサラバサラ /(n) flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness/


kanji: ごろ新聞
kana: ごろしんぶん
entry:
ゴロ新聞 [ゴロしんぶん] /(n) racketeering newspaper/journal that demands money in return for favourable articles/


kana: こけこっこー
entry:
コケコッコー /(adv,n,sl) cock-a-doodle-doo (sound made by cockerels, roosters)/cockerel/rooster (childish term)/


kanji: 金雀児
kana: えにしだ
entry:
金雀児 [エニシダ] /(n,uk,ateji) common broom (Cytisus scoparius, Genista scoparia)/Scotch broom/English broom/


kanji: 金雀枝
kana: えにしだ
entry:
金雀枝 [エニシダ] /(n,uk,ateji) common broom (Cytisus scoparius, Genista scoparia)/Scotch broom/English broom/


kanji: 大紫
kana: おおむらさき
entry:
(n) giant purple butterfly (species of nymphalid butterfly, Sasakia charonda)/Rhododendron oomurasaki (species of purple azalea)


kanji: 大紫
kana: おおむらさき
entry:
大紫 [オオムラサキ] /(n) giant purple butterfly (species of nymphalid butterfly, Sasakia charonda)/Rhododendron oomurasaki (species of purple azalea)/


kanji: 家事見習
kana: かじみならい
entry:
(n) apprenticeship in the running of a household/prospective bride who undertakes an apprenticeship to learn housekeeping


kanji: 鬼哭啾々
kana: きこくしゅうしゅう
entry:
(adj-t,adv-to,arch,uK) spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost)


kanji: 空々寂々
kana: くうくうじゃくじゃく
entry:
(adj-no,adj-t,adv-to,arch,uK) deserted and lonesome/quiet and alone/innocent and nonattached/All is void


kanji: 巻土重来
kana: けんどじゅうらい
entry:
(n) recouping one's strength for a renewed attack (on)/making another attempt with redoubled efforts


kanji: 好評嘖々
kana: こうひょうさくさく
entry:
(adj-t,adv-to) enjoying great popularity/receiving widespread high praise/being a great success with the public


kanji: 詩人墨客
kana: しじんぼっかく
entry:
(n) poets and artists/persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting, and calligraphy


kanji: 神武以来
kana: じんむいらい
entry:
(adj-no,n-adv,n-t) since the era of the Emperor Jinmu/(first ever) since the dawn of Japan's history/unprecedented


kanji: 千慮一失
kana: せんりょいっしつ
entry:
(n) mere slip by someone who is usually very careful/simple mistake by a wise person/point overlooked by a cautious person


kanji: 縦割行政
kana: たてわりぎょうせい
entry:
(n) vertically segmented administrative system/overcompartmentalized bureaucracy/system in which interministerial rivalry diminishes overall efficiency/(bureaucratic) sectionalism


kanji: 喋々喃々
kana: ちょうちょうなんなん
entry:
(n,vs,adj-t,adv-to,arch,uK) billing and cooing/holding an intimate, long-winded conversation in whispers


kanji: 不立文字
kana: ふりゅうもんじ
entry:
(exp) Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment/Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters/Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism)


kanji: 無双仕立
kana: むそうじたて
entry:
(n) making a piece of clothing with the same cloth inside and out/making a kimono with lining of the same fabric


kanji: 妄言多謝
kana: もうげんたしゃ
entry:
(exp) Kindly excuse my reckless remarks/Please excuse my thoughtless words. (used deferentially, in a letter, etc.)


kanji: 赤烏帽子
kana: あかえぼし
entry:
(n) red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color)/metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item


kanji: 悪人正機
kana: あくにんしょうき
entry:
(exp) The evil persons are the right object of Amida's salvation/The evil persons have the unique opportunity to go to heaven


kanji: 握髪吐哺
kana: あくはつとほ
entry:
(n) (a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom)


kanji: 悪木盗泉
kana: あくぼくとうせん
entry:
(exp) A virtuous person does (should) not commit an act that offends his moral principles no matter how hard pressed he may be


kanji: 甘辛両刀
kana: あまからりょうとう
entry:
(n,adj-no) taste for both wines and sweets/having a liking for both alcoholic beverages and sweet things


kanji: 暗送秋波
kana: あんそうしゅうは
entry:
(n) giving an amorous sidelong look/casting an amorous glance (at)/playing up to someone behind the scenes


kanji: 意識過剰
kana: いしきかじょう
entry:
(n,adj-na,adj-no) hyperconsciousness/too great a sense (of)/something being only one's imagination/letting imagination run away with one


kanji: 意識転換
kana: いしきてんかん
entry:
(n,vs) change in mentality/changing one's way of thinking/adjusting psychologically to shifting circumstances


kanji: 意識変革
kana: いしきへんかく
entry:
(n,vs) radical change in mentality/radically changing one's way of thinking/radical change in consciousness


kanji: 居候生活
kana: いそうろうせいかつ
entry:
(n) living in another person's house without paying for food and lodging/sponging on other people for accommodation


kanji: 一番勝負
kana: いちばんしょうぶ
entry:
(n) contest decided by a single round (bout)/contest decided by a single roll of dice/one-shot game (contest)/make-or-break game


kanji: 一番太鼓
kana: いちばんだいこ
entry:
(n) beating of a drum as a signal to announce the opening (beginning) of an event (theatrical performance, festival, etc.)


kanji: 一刻一刻
kana: いっこくいっこく
entry:
(n,adv) hourly/from hour to hour/moment by moment/momently/from one minute to the next/with each passing moment


kanji: 一国一城
kana: いっこくいちじょう
entry:
(n) (possession of) one feudal domain and one castle/being independent (acting without compromise or assistance)/establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615)


kanji: 一笑千金
kana: いっしょうせんきん
entry:
(exp) A smile of a beautiful woman is worth a thousand pieces of gold/enchanting smile of a glamorous woman


kanji: 一杯一杯
kana: いっぱいいっぱい
entry:
(adj-na,n-adv,n) one cup after another/cup by cup/to the limit/to the fullest extent/absolutely the limit/the best one can do/breaking even


kanji: 一筆啓上
kana: いっぴつけいじょう
entry:
(exp) Just a short note to tell you .../This will just be a short note. (a set formula of greeting used by a man at the beginning of a brief note)


kanji: 威風凛々
kana: いふうりんりん
entry:
(adj-t,adv-to,arch) awe-inspiring/majestic/commanding/stately/with an imposing air/in a stately (dignified) manner


kanji: 隠居仕事
kana: いんきょしごと
entry:
(n) post-retirement job/work done by a retired person where earning an income is not a primary concern


kanji: 陰陽五行
kana: いんようごぎょう
entry:
(n) the cosmic dual forces (yin and yang) and the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) in Chinese cosmology


kanji: 雲煙過眼
kana: うんえんかがん
entry:
(n) not being obsessed with something very long (just as clouds and haze pass swiftly before one's eyes)


kanji: 益者三友
kana: えきしゃさんゆう
entry:
(exp) There are three types of friends worth having--honest, sincere, and well-informed ones. (Confucius)


kanji: 越後獅子
kana: えちごじし
entry:
(n) street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head


kanji: 縁故採用
kana: えんこさいよう
entry:
(n,vs) employment of workers through (personal) connections/getting a job through one's personal connection


kanji: 縁故募集
kana: えんこぼしゅう
entry:
(n) recruiting (inviting application for) through personal connections/private (stock) offering (subscription)


kanji: 燕雀鴻鵠
kana: えんじゃくこうこく
entry:
(exp) How can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix)/Only a hero can understand a hero


kanji: 遠慮気味
kana: えんりょぎみ
entry:
(n,adj-na,adj-no) somewhat reserved (diffident)/shyly/timidly/retiringly/in a retiring (reserved) manner


kanji: 応変能力
kana: おうへんのうりょく
entry:
(n) ability to take proper steps to meet the situation/ability to adapt oneself to (the requirement of) the moment


kanji: 御祖師様
kana: おそしさま
entry:
(n) the Founder of the (our) sect (used especially in the Nichiren sect of Buddhism, referring to Nichiren)


kanji: 開眼供養
kana: かいげんくよう
entry:
(n) ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist statue or image by inserting the eyes (thereby investing it with soul)


kanji: 海底撈月
kana: かいていろうげつ
entry:
(n) totally useless (fruitless) effort/wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea)


kanji: 各自負担
kana: かくじふたん
entry:
(n) joint and several liability/each individual being responsible for the payment of his share of the purchase price, expense, etc.


kanji: 花鳥諷詠
kana: かちょうふうえい
entry:
(exp) the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme/the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku)


kanji: 割鶏牛刀
kana: かっけいぎゅうとう
entry:
(n) using a meat ax when a knife would suffice/taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut/using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem


kanji: 勝手気まま
kana: かってきまま
entry:
(n,adj-na) self-willed/(doing or saying things) to suit one's own convenience/oblivious to the convenience of others/(P)


kanji: 仮名草子
kana: かなぞうし
entry:
(n) story book written in kana (or in kana mixed with Chinese characters) in the early Edo period (primarily for the enlightenment and entertainment of women and children)


kanji: 歌舞伎者
kana: かぶきもの
entry:
(n) dandy/peacock/early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza/Edo-period eccentric who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and weird behavior


kanji: 臥竜鳳雛
kana: がりょうほうすう
entry:
(n) gifted young person who shows much promise/unrecognized genius/great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel


kanji: 川施餓鬼
kana: かわせがき
entry:
(n) Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river/offering to suffering spirits at the river


kanji: 関係省庁
kana: かんけいしょうちょう
entry:
(n) the concerned government agencies/the ministries and agencies that are relevant to the matter at hand/the relevant authorities


kanji: 玩物喪志
kana: がんぶつそうし
entry:
(n) forgetting one's serious objectives by becoming engrossed in trivial pursuits/being distracted by trivial objects and losing sight of one's original goal


kanji: 官僚主導
kana: かんりょうしゅどう
entry:
(n,adj-no) initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians)


kanji: 貫禄十分
kana: かんろくじゅうぶん
entry:
(n,adj-na,adj-no) having great (impressive, commanding) presence/having an air of importance/having enough gravity for (a position)


kanji: 貫禄不足
kana: かんろくぶそく
entry:
(n,adj-na,adj-no) lacking enough gravity for (a position, task)/being an insignificant figure for (a position)


kanji: 奇貨可居
kana: きかおくべし
entry:
(exp) You must seize every golden opportunity/Strike while the iron is hot/When you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price


kanji: 机上空論
kana: きじょうくうろん
entry:
(n) impractical desktop theory (proposition)/unworkable idea/an idea that isn't worth the paper it's written on


kanji: 鳩首密議
kana: きゅうしゅみつぎ
entry:
(n,vs) going into a huddle (over)/holding secret (closed-door) conference (about)/laying heads together in secret consultation


kanji: 矯角殺牛
kana: きょうかくさつぎゅう
entry:
(exp) trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process/trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing/The cure is worse than the disease


kanji: 鏡花水月
kana: きょうかすいげつ
entry:
(n) flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface/something that is visible but having no substance/the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words


kanji: 驕兵必敗
kana: きょうへいひっぱい
entry:
(exp) Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army/Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure)/Pride comes before a fall


kanji: 虚実皮膜
kana: きょじつひまく
entry:
(exp) the difference between truth and fiction in art being very subtle/Art abides in a realm that is neither truth nor fiction


kanji: 虚心平気
kana: きょしんへいき
entry:
(n,adj-na,adj-no) with an open and calm mind/without reserve/with utmost candor/with no preconceived notions


kanji: 錦上添花
kana: きんじょうてんか
entry:
(n) adding a crowning touch of beauty (to)/giving added luster (to)/crowning beauty (honor, grace) with even greater glory


kanji: 形影一如
kana: けいえいいちにょ
entry:
(n) being inseparable as a form and its shadow/a person's deed mirrors the good or evil of his mind/husband and wife being never apart


kanji: 戯作三昧
kana: げさくざんまい
entry:
(n) being absorbed in writing popular novels (cheap fictions)/being absorbed in writing something to amuse oneself


kanji: 外題学問
kana: げだいがくもん
entry:
(n) putting on a knowing air when one only knows the title of the book (play, etc.)/pretending to understand the nature of something when one only knows its name


kanji: 月下推敲
kana: げっかすいこう
entry:
(n) polish/elaboration/repeatedly working over one's writing/being very scrupulous in the choice of diction


kanji: 言行齟齬
kana: げんこうそご
entry:
(n) inconsistency of speech and action/failing to act up to one's words/not practicing what one preaches


kanji: 現状否定
kana: げんじょうひてい
entry:
(n) refusal to accept the present situation/denial of the existing situation/negation of the status quo


kanji: 弧城落月
kana: こじょうらくげつ
entry:
(n) feeling apprehensive/feeling (looking) lone and helpless/being down-and-out (ruined)/helplessness of those in reduced circumstances


kanji: 国家多事
kana: こっかたじ
entry:
(n,adj-no) eventful times for the nation/the nation being in turmoil/the storm clouds gathering in the land


kanji: 後手必敗
kana: ごてひっぱい
entry:
(exp) Defeat is inevitable for one who goes second/Being slow to take action inevitably leads to defeat


kanji: 今是昨非
kana: こんぜさくひ
entry:
(exp) complete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time)/What appeared wrong in the past now appears right/realizing and regretting the past errors of one's ways


kanji: 才気溌剌
kana: さいきはつらつ
entry:
(adj-t,adv-to) resourceful and quick-witted/showing a flash of brilliance/have a keen (sparkling) intellect


kanji: 才子多病
kana: さいしたびょう
entry:
(exp) Talented people tend to be of delicate constitution/Men of genius tend to be of delicate health/Whom the gods love die young


kanji: 罪状明白
kana: ざいじょうめいはく
entry:
(n,adj-na) being proven guilty of a crime/having one's guilt for a crime made clear/(the) nature of offense being (becoming) clear


kanji: 才知縦横
kana: さいちじゅうおう
entry:
(n,adj-na) resourceful and quick-witted/showing a flash of brilliance/have a keen (sparkling) intellect


kanji: 自己演出
kana: じこえんしゅつ
entry:
(n,vs) an author directing (producing) his/her own play (film)/staging oneself for effect/presenting oneself in a favorable light


kanji: 自己抑制
kana: じこよくせい
entry:
(n,vs) self-restraint/self-control/self-repression/abstinence/self-inhibition/autogenic inhibition/autogenous suppression


kanji: 事情聴取
kana: じじょうちょうしゅ
entry:
(n,vs) police interview/police questioning a witness (suspect) to obtain information (about a crime)


kanji: 下町人情
kana: したまちにんじょう
entry:
(n) the milk of human kindness of the people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods


kanji: 失地回復
kana: しっちかいふく
entry:
(n) the recovery of lost territory/recovering (regaining) lost ground (one' former position)/fence-mending


kanji: 実力本位
kana: じつりょくほんい
entry:
(n,adj-no) the precedence of merit/performance orientation/ability- (merit-) based (promotion, pay scale, etc.)


kanji: 縦横自在
kana: じゅうおうじざい
entry:
(n,adj-na) freely/right and left/active without any restraint/with unrestricted energy in all directions


kanji: 羞月閉花
kana: しゅうげつへいか
entry:
(n) the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman (lit: (so beautiful that) the Moon is abashed and flowers wilt)


kanji: 重厚長大
kana: じゅうこうちょうだい
entry:
(n,adj-na) heavy, thick, long, and big (products)/massive and heavy (products)/heavy (manufacturing)


kanji: 重役出勤
kana: じゅうやくしゅっきん
entry:
(n,vs) flexible working hours of the higher-ups/(humorously or sarcastically) go (come) to work late as if one were an executive


kanji: 取捨分別
kana: しゅしゃふんべつ
entry:
(n,vs) make a choice among many/select the good (desirable, necessary, relevant) and discard the rest/decision to adopt or reject


kanji: 正直一遍
kana: しょうじきいっぺん
entry:
(n,adj-na) honest to a fault/one's only strength being his (her) honesty/having no redeeming feature except for being honest


kanji: 職住一体
kana: しょくじゅういったい
entry:
(n) having one's workplace at home/living and working at the same location (independent farmers, home workers, storekeepers, etc.)


kanji: 諸子百家
kana: しょしひゃっか
entry:
(n) the general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period in Chinese history


kanji: 心外千万
kana: しんがいせんばん
entry:
(n,adj-na) being totally upset (by)/being completely nonplused (by)/being mortified (at)/feeling aggrieved (at)/finding (it) highly regrettable


kanji: 辛酸甘苦
kana: しんさんかんく
entry:
(n) hardships and joys/tasting the sweets and bitters of life/(having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world


kanji: 人心刷新
kana: じんしんさっしん
entry:
(n) radically change public sentiment/leading the thought of the people to an entirely different channel


kanji: 真相究明
kana: しんそうきゅうめい
entry:
(n) probe into the truth (of the matter)/dig into the real facts of the case/get at the root of a matter


kanji: 進退去就
kana: しんたいきょしゅう
entry:
(n) one's course of action/deciding what to do with oneself, whether staying in the present position or leaving it


kanji: 進退両難
kana: しんたいりょうなん
entry:
(n) being driven to the wall/finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea/finding oneself between a rock and a hard place


kanji: 心配無用
kana: しんぱいむよう
entry:
(exp) Don't worry about it/There is nothing to fear/There is no need for anxiety/Everything is under control


kanji: 新聞辞令
kana: しんぶんじれい
entry:
(n) Appointment conjecturally reported in a newspaper/announcement of an appointment which is (turns out to be) mere press speculation


kanji: 政権亡者
kana: せいけんもうじゃ
entry:
(n) one who is obsessed with (getting into, holding on to) political power/one who is obsessed with the idea of taking over government


kanji: 政治主導
kana: せいじしゅどう
entry:
(n,adj-no) initiative taken by politicians (in the formulation of a policy or bill) (rather than by bureaucrats)


kanji: 成長小説
kana: せいちょうしょうせつ
entry:
(n) novel of formation (education)/novel of character development/novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person


kanji: 整理淘汰
kana: せいりとうた
entry:
(n,vs) reorganize an enterprise and weed out redundant workers/reorganize an industry and weed out redudant enterprises


kanji: 勢力分野
kana: せいりょくぶんや
entry:
(n) the respective (relative) strength of political parties/distribution of the number of parliamentary seats held by each of the political parties


kanji: 赤手空拳
kana: せきしゅくうけん
entry:
(n) barehanded/having no wealth or position to rely on (aside from one's own resourcefulness) (when embarking on something)


kanji: 責任問題
kana: せきにんもんだい
entry:
(n) a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies/a question of who is responsible (to blame)


kanji: 説教泥棒
kana: せっきょうどろぼう
entry:
(n) preaching burglar/burglar who preaches at the victim about the methods of preventing similar crimes


kanji: 説教坊主
kana: せっきょうぼうず
entry:
(n) tub-thumping preacher/preacher (priest) who is good at delivering a sermon/pulpiteer (usually with contemptuous implication)


kanji: 善意銀行
kana: ぜんいぎんこう
entry:
(n) center for collecting charitable contributions (money, goods, and-or services) and distributing them to people in need


kanji: 前虎後狼
kana: ぜんここうろう
entry:
(exp) one calamity followed close on the heels of another (lit: keeping at bay a tiger at the front gate, while a wolf appears at the back)/out of the frying pan into the fire


kanji: 僭上越権
kana: せんじょうえっけん
entry:
(n) exceeding (overstepping) one's powers (competence, authority)/abuse of one's legal authority/acting ultra vires


kanji: 千人千色
kana: せんにんせんしょく
entry:
(exp) So many people, so many minds/Everyone has his own ideas and tastes/It takes all sorts to make a world/To each his (her) own


kanji: 千年一日
kana: せんねんいちじつ
entry:
(n) without intermission for many years/with constancy of purpose for many years/in the same old rut for years on end


kanji: 全力投球
kana: ぜんりょくとうきゅう
entry:
(n,vs,adj-no) throw a ball as hard as one can/use all of one's strength (to)/give (it) everything one has got/go full-out


kanji: 滄海桑田
kana: そうかいそうでん
entry:
(exp) The word is a scene of constant changes (as the blue sea changing into a mulberry field). (Chinese legend)


kanji: 桑田滄海
kana: そうでんそうかい
entry:
(exp) The word is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea). (Chinese legend)


kanji: 粗酒粗肴
kana: そしゅそこう
entry:
(n) cheap wines and unpalatable dishes (a modest (self-deprecating) way of offering a meal to a guest)


kanji: 対人感覚
kana: たいじんかんかく
entry:
(n) feelings toward other people/sensitivity to other people's feelings/feelings one gives to other people through interpersonal relationships


kanji: 退勢挽回
kana: たいせいばんかい
entry:
(n) restoring the declining fortunes/recovering from the discouraging situation/reversing the downward trend


kanji: 大漁貧乏
kana: たいりょうびんぼう
entry:
(n) impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch/decline in fishermen' s income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch


kanji: 竹槍戦術
kana: たけやりせんじゅつ
entry:
(n) tactics of fighting a technologically advanced adversary with primitive weapons/sole reliance on simple determination (naive spiritualism) in fighting an overwhelming foe


kanji: 伊達めがね
kana: だてめがね
entry:
伊達メガネ [だてメガネ] /(n) glasses for show/fashionable eyeglasses worn for appearance's sake/glasses with no lenses or 'window glass' lenses/


kanji: 伊達めがね
kana: だてめがね
entry:
伊達メガネ [だてめがね] /(n) glasses for show/fashionable eyeglasses worn for appearance's sake/glasses with no lenses or 'window glass' lenses/


kanji: 伊達眼鏡
kana: だてめがね
entry:
伊達眼鏡 [だてメガネ] /(n) glasses for show/fashionable eyeglasses worn for appearance's sake/glasses with no lenses or 'window glass' lenses/


kanji: 伊達眼鏡
kana: だてめがね
entry:
(n) glasses for show/fashionable eyeglasses worn for appearance's sake/glasses with no lenses or 'window glass' lenses


kanji: 寵愛一身
kana: ちょうあいいっしん
entry:
(n) standing highest in one's master's favor/monopolizing the affection (favor) of the lord/being the lord's favorite lady


kanji: 沈魚落雁
kana: ちんぎょらくがん
entry:
(n) the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman (lit: (so beautiful that,) in shame, fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky)


kanji: 丁寧懇切
kana: ていねいこんせつ
entry:
(n,adj-na) (an explanation, advice, etc. being) kind, careful, and thorough/thoughtful and scrupulous


kanji: 天涯比隣
kana: てんがいひりん
entry:
(exp) a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment/feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood


kanji: 天下第一
kana: てんかだいいち
entry:
(n,adj-no) the best in the land/the best of its kind in the country/par excellence in the whole country


kanji: 天下多事
kana: てんかたじ
entry:
(n,adj-no) eventful times for the nation (world)/the nation (world) being in turmoil/the storm clouds gathering in the land


kanji: 点検商法
kana: てんけんしょうほう
entry:
(n) an unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacing items


kanji: 動向把握
kana: どうこうはあく
entry:
(n) grasping the trend/firmly understanding how the situation is developing/getting a good sense of how things are changing


kanji: 得意淡然
kana: とくいたんぜん
entry:
(adj-t,adv-to,arch,uK) not letting oneself puffed up by one's success/maintaining a serene state of mind when one has achieved a great success


kanji: 読書百遍
kana: どくしょひゃっぺん
entry:
(exp) Repeated reading (makes the meaning clear)/Reading something again and again (will lead one to realize its meaning)


kanji: 内縁関係
kana: ないえんかんけい
entry:
(n,adj-no) de facto marriage/common-law marriage/living together as husband and wife without formal marriage


kanji: 内部工作
kana: ないぶこうさく
entry:
(n) internal maneuvering/secret maneuvering (within an organization)/reconciling the various views within an organization before airing something in public


kanji: 長居無用
kana: ながいむよう
entry:
(exp) There's no point in staying (here) any longer/There's no point in prolonging a (the) visit/There's no point in extending one's stay


kanji: 浪花節的
kana: なにわぶしてき
entry:
(adj-na) of the old feeling of naniwa-bushi/marked by the dual themes of obligation and compassion that distinguish the naniwa-bushi ballads


kanji: 成田離婚
kana: なりたりこん
entry:
(n) Narita divorce/divorce case of a newlywed couple breaking up upon their return to Narita Airport from their honeymoon abroad


kanji: 苦手意識
kana: にがていしき
entry:
(n) awareness that somebody (something) is (will be) hard to deal with/awareness that one is not good at something


kanji: 二転三転
kana: にてんさんてん
entry:
(n,vs) change again and again/seesaw back and forth/being in a state of flux/backtracking repeatedly


kanji: 二枚看板
kana: にまいかんばん
entry:
(n) the two leading actors (in a play)/the two star players/the two distinctive features/the two main items (attractions)


kanji: 年末年始
kana: ねんまつねんし
entry:
(n) the New Year's holiday/the period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the new year


kanji: 百点満点
kana: ひゃくてんまんてん
entry:
(n) (getting a) perfect score/scoring 100/grading students on a scale of one hundred/doing perfectly (in a test)/leaving nothing to be desired


kanji: 百年河清
kana: ひゃくねんかせい
entry:
(exp) waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear/waiting in vain for an unlikely event/waiting for pigs to fly/When the sky falls, we shall catch larks


kanji: 便乗商法
kana: びんじょうしょうほう
entry:
(n) piggybacking marketing/the method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.)


kanji: 富貴浮雲
kana: ふうきふうん
entry:
(exp) Riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds/Fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow


kanji: 風声鶴唳
kana: ふうせいかくれい
entry:
(n) getting frightened even by a slight noise/hearing the enemy in every leaf that rustles/being afraid of one's own shadow


kanji: 風俗画風
kana: ふうぞくがふう
entry:
(n) (of the) genre painting style/(of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners/(of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people


kanji: 風流韻事
kana: ふうりゅういんじ
entry:
(n) elegant appreciation of nature through artistic pursuits such as poetry, painting and calligraphy


kanji: 不易流行
kana: ふえきりゅうこう
entry:
(exp) the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku/Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."/An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho)


kanji: 俯仰天地
kana: ふぎょうてんち
entry:
(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)


kanji: 福祉商法
kana: ふくししょうほう
entry:
(n) (unscrupulous) business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience/(unscrupulous) sales methods used by someone falsely claiming to represent a charitable (social welfare) organization


kanji: 武家伝奏
kana: ぶけでんそう
entry:
(n) Imperial official in charge of communication between the shogunate and the court (during the Muromachi and Edo periods)


kanji: 無事終了
kana: ぶじしゅうりょう
entry:
(n,vs) ending without incident/being successfully brought to completion/finishing something without a hitch


kanji: 不調法者
kana: ぶちょうほうもの
entry:
(n) clumsy person/bungler/person with no particular talents (in performing arts)/nondrinker/nonsmoker


kanji: 不良老年
kana: ふりょうろうねん
entry:
(n) old sinner/elderly man-about-town/older person who enjoys free and easy lifestyle unfettered by social taboos


kanji: 奮起一番
kana: ふんきいちばん
entry:
(n) bracing oneself up to action, being inspired by something/getting down to work, putting heart and soul into it/tackling (a job) with gusto


kanji: 文武兼備
kana: ぶんぶけんび
entry:
(n) well up in both literary and military (martial) arts/well skilled in wielding both the sword and the pen


kanji: 法界悋気
kana: ほうかいりんき
entry:
(n) being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one/being jealous of others who are in love with each other


kanji: 豊作飢饉
kana: ほうさくききん
entry:
(n) impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest/decline in farmers' income caused by the sharlpy lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests


kanji: 豊作貧乏
kana: ほうさくびんぼう
entry:
(n) impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest/decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests


kanji: 本懐成就
kana: ほんかいじょうじゅ
entry:
(n,vs) realization of a great ambition/attainment of one's most cherished desire/one's earnest prayer being answered


kanji: 本領安堵
kana: ほんりょうあんど
entry:
(n) recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods)


kanji: 末期養子
kana: まつごようし
entry:
(n) deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line)/person adopted by someone on his deathbed


kanji: 満目荒涼
kana: まんもくこうりょう
entry:
(adj-t,adv-to) all nature being bleak and desolate/scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see


kanji: 身分相応
kana: みぶんそうおう
entry:
(n,adj-na) appropriate to one's lot in life/within one's means/fitting to one's position/suitable to one's social status


kanji: 無策無為
kana: むさくむい
entry:
(n) donothingism/do-nothing, plan-nothing (government, etc.)/being an idle onlooker taking no steps to meet the situation


kanji: 無想無念
kana: むそうむねん
entry:
(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


kanji: 無断外泊
kana: むだんがいはく
entry:
(n,vs) staying out overnight without giving notice/spending night(s) away from home without permission (leave)


kanji: 無手勝流
kana: むてかつりゅう
entry:
(n,col) 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)/Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)


kanji: 無能無策
kana: むのうむさく
entry:
(n) ineptitude and inaction/being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation


kanji: 明朗会計
kana: めいろうかいけい
entry:
(n) clear accounting/honest accounting (billing)/transparent billing practices (in restaurant and bar charges, etc.)


kanji: 猛烈社員
kana: もうれつしゃいん
entry:
(n) gung-ho organization (corporate) man (woman)/go-getter worker/hard-driving worker/workaholic employee


kanji: 猛烈社員
kana: もーれつしゃいん
entry:
猛烈社員 [モーレツしゃいん] /(n) gung-ho organization (corporate) man (woman)/go-getter worker/hard-driving worker/workaholic employee/


kanji: もーれつ社員
kana: もうれつしゃいん
entry:
モーレツ社員 [もうれつしゃいん] /(n) gung-ho organization (corporate) man (woman)/go-getter worker/hard-driving worker/workaholic employee/


kanji: もーれつ社員
kana: もーれつしゃいん
entry:
モーレツ社員 [モーレツしゃいん] /(n) gung-ho organization (corporate) man (woman)/go-getter worker/hard-driving worker/workaholic employee/


kanji: 役者子供
kana: やくしゃこども
entry:
(n) skilled actor who is like a child offstage/good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world


kanji: 役者馬鹿
kana: やくしゃばか
entry:
(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


kanji: 野合政権
kana: やごうせいけん
entry:
(n) administration established through an unprincipled political coalition/government of convenience/cabinet created through an unholy alliance


kanji: 雄材大略
kana: ゆうざいたいりゃく
entry:
(n) superior talent and strategic wisdom/outstanding abilities and a talent for developing and implementing grand strategies


kanji: 有志一同
kana: ゆうしいちどう
entry:
(exp) all those interested (in the matter)/all those willing/(from) all of us/(from) everyone concerned


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


kanji: 様子次第
kana: ようすしだい
entry:
(n) according to circumstances/depending on the state of things/according to how the situation develops


kanji: 六韜三略
kana: りくとうさんりゃく
entry:
(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


kanji: 離散集合
kana: りさんしゅうごう
entry:
(n,vs) meeting and parting/gathering and scattering/alignment and realignment/alternating alliance and rupture/alternating cooperation and defection


kanji: 流連荒亡
kana: りゅうれんこうぼう
entry:
(n) spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home/being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures


kanji: 稟議制度
kana: りんぎせいど
entry:
(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


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


kanji: 露悪趣味
kana: ろあくしゅみ
entry:
(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


kanji: 和敬静寂
kana: わけいせいじゃく
entry:
(n,iK) harmony, respect, purity and tranquility/the four most important elements of the tea ceremony


kana: それなのに
entry:
(conj) and yet/despite this/but even so/but even then/however/nevertheless/for all that/notwithstanding that


kanji: 嗜み
kana: たしなみ
entry:
(n) taste (in goods, etc.)/prudence/preparedness/modesty/restraint/knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.)


kanji: 薄型てれび
kana: うすがたてれび
entry:
薄型テレビ [うすがたテレビ] /(n) flat-panel television (TV)/thin-screen television (TV)/thin-model flat-screen television (TV)/flat-screen TV/


kana: えたろん
entry:
エタロン /(n) etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)/


kanji: せり出す
kana: せりだす
entry:
(v5s,vt) to push (a thing) out/to jut out (can have a negative nuance)/to protrude/to rise out the trap door (on stage)


kanji: 耳に胼胝ができる
kana: みみにたこができる
entry:
(exp) to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears


kanji: 庇
kana: ひさし
entry:
(n,uk,abbr) eaves (of roof)/narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building/visor or peak (of cap)/classic Japanese women's low pompadour hairstyle


kanji: 免震
kana: めんしん
entry:
(n,vs) base isolation (in buildings to result in damping vibrations for earthquake-resistance)/base-isolating


kanji: 掛け声倒れ
kana: かけごえだおれ
entry:
(n) starting with vigor but ending with no action/raising one's voice (in a call to action) and then failing to take action


kana: かんにんぐぺーぱー
entry:
カンニングペーパー /(n) crib sheet/cheat sheet/large sketchbook used during TV filming to notify the cast of special stage direction, relay messages, etc./


kanji: 機械馬鹿
kana: きかいばか
entry:
(n) skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters/person who gets a great kick out of tinkering with anything mechanical


kanji: 盗人上戸
kana: ぬすびとじょうご
entry:
(n) person who likes alcohol and sweets equally well/person who can drink much alcohol without becoming tipsy


kanji: 巻き替え
kana: まきかえ
entry:
(n) winding a replacement thread, wire, etc./changing from an overarm to an underarm grip on one's opponent's belt (sumo)


kanji: 中人
kana: ちゅうじん
entry:
(n) person of middling talent, strength, etc./middle class person/bourgeois person/matchmaker go-between


kanji: 鼻につく
kana: はなにつく
entry:
(exp) to be cloying/to be sick and tired with/to be disgusted with/to get up someone's nose/to stink


kanji: 経産
kana: けいさん
entry:
(n,adj-no,abbr,adj-f) Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry/METI/female mammal having given birth/para/parous


kanji: 飛騨の匠
kana: ひだのたくみ
entry:
(n) historical system whereby the Hida region provided 10 carpenters per village the central government in place of taxes


kanji: ざるを得ない
kana: ざるをえない
entry:
(exp) cannot help (doing)/have no choice but to/am compelled to/am obliged to/it is incumbent upon (me) to


kanji: 戯る
kana: たわむる
entry:
(v5r,vi,arch) to be playful/to gambol/to be amused (with something)/to play/to sport/to frolic/to joke


kanji: 促音便
kana: そくおんびん
entry:
(n) nasal sound change (generation of geminate consonant, primarily a geminate 't' from vowel stems ending in 'i')


kanji: 集中日
kana: しゅうちゅうび
entry:
(n) day on which many companies hold shareholders meetings (to limit disruption by would-be blackmailers)


kanji: 野生犬
kana: やせいいぬ
entry:
(n) wild dog/Asiatic jackal (Canis aureus ssp.)/golden jackal/side-striped jackal (carnivore, Canis adustus)


kana: あびしにあじゃっかる
entry:
アビシニアジャッカル /(n) Abyssinia jackal (carnivore, Canis simensis)/simian jackal/simenian jackal/simenian wolf/Ethiopian wolf/


kana: しみえんじゃっかる
entry:
シミエンジャッカル /(n) Abyssinia jackal (carnivore, Canis simensis)/simian jackal/simenian jackal/simenian wolf/Ethiopian wolf/


kana: しめにあじゃっかる
entry:
シメニアジャッカル /(n) Abyssinia jackal (carnivore, Canis simensis)/simian jackal/simenian jackal/simenian wolf/Ethiopian wolf/


kanji: しめにあ狼
kana: しめにあおおかみ
entry:
シメニア狼 [シメニアおおかみ] /(n) simenian wolf (carnivore, Canis simensis)/Abyssinia jackal/simian jackal/simenian jackal/Ethiopian wolf/


kanji: えちおぴあ狼
kana: えちおぴあおおかみ
entry:
エチオピア狼 [エチオピアおおかみ] /(n) Ethiopian wolf (carnivore, Canis simensis)/Abyssinia jackal/simian jackal/simenian jackal/simenian wolf/


kanji: 打ち開ける
kana: ぶちあける
entry:
(v1,vt) to forcefully open up a hole (in a wall, etc.)/to speak frankly, holding nothing back/to throw out everything inside


kanji: 一芸入試
kana: いちげいにゅうし
entry:
(n) entrance exam for a university giving preference to persons who excel in one special field (skill)/one-talent oriented entrance examination


kanji: 一発逆転
kana: いっぱつぎゃくてん
entry:
(n,vs) turning things around with a home run/turning the tables with a single successful attack (move)


kanji: 一幕見席
kana: ひとまくみせき
entry:
(n) special seats and standing-only space in the galley for people who only intend to see one act of a Kabuki play


kanji: 一粒万倍
kana: いちりゅうまんばい
entry:
(exp) A single seed can eventually produce a great harvest/Even the smallest beginning can generate a greatest profit/Watch the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves


kanji: 御用繁多
kana: ごようはんた
entry:
(n,adj-na) being busy with many things/extreme busyness due to pressure of business (often used humorously)


kanji: 三猿主義
kana: さんえんしゅぎ
entry:
(n) the principle (philosophy) of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil/the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not"


kanji: 三無主義
kana: さんむしゅぎ
entry:
(n) the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s


kanji: 四神相応
kana: しじんそうおう
entry:
(n) an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north


kanji: 四柱推命
kana: しちゅうすいめい
entry:
(n) Four Pillar astrology/originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth


kanji: 七公三民
kana: しちこうさんみん
entry:
(n) land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent


kanji: 係う
kana: かかずらう
entry:
(v5u,uk) to be mixed up with/to have a connection with (a troublesome matter)/to be a stickler about/to be finicky about (some triviality)/to take part (in some work)


kanji: 依代
kana: よりしろ
entry:
(n) object representative of a divine spirit/object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned/object or animal occupied by a kami


kanji: 見せぱん
kana: みせぱん
entry:
見せパン [みせパン] /(n) pants (underwear) to be (partially) shown/(partially) showing one's pants (underwear)/


kana: ごろつく
entry:
(v5k,vi) to rumble/to thunder/to roll about (people, large objects)/to wander about without a fixed workplace, home, etc./to hang around/to loiter


kanji: 目からうろこが落ちる
kana: めからうろこがおちる
entry:
目からウロコが落ちる [めからウロコがおちる] /(exp) to see the light/to be awakened to the truth/to have the scales fall from one's eyes/


kanji: 目からうろこが落ちる
kana: めからうろこがおちる
entry:
目からウロコが落ちる [めからうろこがおちる] /(exp) to see the light/to be awakened to the truth/to have the scales fall from one's eyes/


kanji: 目から鱗が落ちる
kana: めからうろこがおちる
entry:
目から鱗が落ちる [めからウロコがおちる] /(exp) to see the light/to be awakened to the truth/to have the scales fall from one's eyes/


kanji: 場繋ぎ
kana: ばつなぎ
entry:
(n) filling in (e.g. between speakers at a meeting, acts at a show)/material used to fill in (between speeches at a meeting, etc.)/anecdote


kanji: つつじ科
kana: つつじか
entry:
ツツジ科 [ツツジか] /(n) Ericaceae (plant family)/heath/(subset of Ericaceae once formally had the generic name Azalea)/


kana: えろあにめ
entry:
エロアニメ /(n,abbr) erotic animation/pornographic animation/animation containing explicit sexual content/


kanji: 異人館
kana: いじんかん
entry:
(n) Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era


kanji: 宇和水桜
kana: うわみずざくら
entry:
宇和水桜 [ウワミズザクラ] /(n,uk,iK) Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)/Gray's bird cherry/Gray's chokecherry/


kanji: 鷹の爪
kana: たかのつめ
entry:
(n) deciduous tree (evodiopanax innovans)/whole dried cayenne peppers/var. of high-quality green tea


kanji: 鷹の爪
kana: たかのつめ
entry:
鷹の爪 [タカノツメ] /(n) deciduous tree (evodiopanax innovans)/whole dried cayenne peppers/var. of high-quality green tea/


kanji: 揺蕩う
kana: たゆたう
entry:
(v5u,vi,uk,ateji) to sway to and fro/to drift about/to flutter/to flicker/to be fickle/to be irresolute/to vacillate/to waver


kanji: 期差選任
kana: きさせんにん
entry:
(n) staggered terms (applied to corporate directors as a defensive measure against hostile takeovers)


kanji: 等
kana: ら
entry:
(suf) pluralizing suffix (often humble, derogatory or familiar)/and others/et alios/and the like/and followers/or so (rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.)


kanji: 学らん
kana: がくらん
entry:
学ラン [がくラン] /(n,uk,sl) type of Japanese school uniform for boys often stand-up collar with long jacket and loose trousers/


kanji: 学らん
kana: がくらん
entry:
学ラン [がくらん] /(n,uk,sl) type of Japanese school uniform for boys often stand-up collar with long jacket and loose trousers/


kanji: 学らん
kana: がくらん
entry:
学らん [がくラン] /(n,uk,sl) type of Japanese school uniform for boys often stand-up collar with long jacket and loose trousers/


kanji: 学らん
kana: がくらん
entry:
(n,uk,sl) type of Japanese school uniform for boys often stand-up collar with long jacket and loose trousers


kana: あばたー
entry:
アバター /(n) avatar/incarnation of an immortal being (Hindu)/icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality/


kana: あヴぁたー
entry:
アヴァター /(n) avatar/incarnation of an immortal being (Hindu)/icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality/


kanji: ぱけ死
kana: ぱけし
entry:
パケ死 [パケし] /(n) finding out you've run up a fortune by web access on your mobile (lit: packet death)/


kanji: 置きなさい
kana: おきなさい
entry:
(exp,uk) put (imperative form)/place/leave (imperative form)/do (in preparation) (imperative form, after -te form of verb)


kana: だてらに
entry:
(suf,prt) a mere (status or characteristic)/implies activity unsuited to (status or characteristic)/(P)


kanji: 素
kana: す
entry:
(adj-no,n,pref,derog) plain/unadorned/undecorated/unadulterated/au naturel/(before a noun) mere/poor/(before an adjective) exceedingly


kanji: 機嫌を取る
kana: きげんをとる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to curry favour/to butter up/to fawn over/to humour someone (humor)/to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)


kanji: 馬子にも衣装
kana: まごにもいしょう
entry:
(exp) anybody can look good with the right clothes (lit: clothes on a packhorse driver)/clothes make the man/fine feathers make fine birds


kanji: 御局
kana: おつぼね
entry:
(n,arch) dignified lady-in-waiting who had her own private chamber or office at court or in the shogun's castle


kanji: ちんげん菜
kana: ちんげんさい
entry:
チンゲン菜 [チンゲンさい] /(n) qinggengcai (spinach-like green vegetable originating in China)/pak choi/bok choi/bok choy/


kanji: ちんげん菜
kana: ちんげんさい
entry:
チンゲン菜 [ちんげんさい] /(n) qinggengcai (spinach-like green vegetable originating in China)/pak choi/bok choi/bok choy/


kanji: ちんげん菜
kana: ちんげんさい
entry:
チンゲン菜 [チンゲンサイ] /(n) qinggengcai (spinach-like green vegetable originating in China)/pak choi/bok choi/bok choy/


kanji: 青梗菜
kana: ちんげんさい
entry:
青梗菜 [チンゲンさい] /(n) qinggengcai (spinach-like green vegetable originating in China)/pak choi/bok choi/bok choy/


kanji: 青梗菜
kana: ちんげんさい
entry:
青梗菜 [チンゲンサイ] /(n) qinggengcai (spinach-like green vegetable originating in China)/pak choi/bok choi/bok choy/


kana: とーいん
entry:
トーイン /(n) toe-in (alignment of the front wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the front than at the back)/


kanji: つーと言えばかーだ
kana: つーといえばかーだ
entry:
ツーと言えばカーだ [ツーといえばカーだ] /(exp) to be quick to take a hint/to be very responsive/to be quick on the uptake/


kana: つんでれ
entry:
(adj-f,n) being on the surface sharp and sarcastic (tsuntsun) but underneath lovestruck and fawning (deredere)/characteristic of a gap between acted out actions and feelings in mind


kana: つんでれ
entry:
ツンデレ /(adj-f,n) being on the surface sharp and sarcastic (tsuntsun) but underneath lovestruck and fawning (deredere)/characteristic of a gap between acted out actions and feelings in mind/


kanji: 空
kana: くう
entry:
(n,abbr,adj-na) empty air/sky/shunya (emptiness, the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phemomenon)/air force/fruitlessness/meaninglessness/void (one of the five elements)


kanji: 押っ付け
kana: おっつけ
entry:
(n) technique of holding one's opponent's arm to prevent him from getting a hold on one's belt (Sumo)


kanji: 貶める
kana: おとしめる
entry:
(v1,vt) to show contempt for/to look down upon/to have a low opinion of/to cause to fall/to make decline


kanji: お百度
kana: おひゃくど
entry:
(n) hundred times worship (e.g. walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time)


kanji: 関係ない
kana: かんけいない
entry:
(exp,col) have nothing to do with (something)/have no connection with (something)/"that's not it"/I don't care about/I am not concerned about


kanji: 歯茎音
kana: はぐきおん
entry:
(n) alveolar consonant/sound (e.g. n,t,d) where the tongue touches (or nearly touches) the ridge behind your front top teeth


kanji: ぶち当たる
kana: ぶちあたる
entry:
(v5r) to slam into (e.g. a wall, a limit) (figuratively)/to hit/to face (e.g. trouble, a problem)/to confront


kanji: 同じ穴のむじな
kana: おなじあなのむじな
entry:
同じ穴のムジナ [おなじあなのムジナ] /(exp) (villains) of the same stripe (lit: badgers of the same hole)/birds of a feather/


kanji: 同じ穴のむじな
kana: おなじあなのむじな
entry:
同じ穴のムジナ [おなじあなのむじな] /(exp) (villains) of the same stripe (lit: badgers of the same hole)/birds of a feather/


kanji: 同じ穴の狢
kana: おなじあなのむじな
entry:
同じ穴の狢 [おなじあなのムジナ] /(exp) (villains) of the same stripe (lit: badgers of the same hole)/birds of a feather/


kanji: 嚆矢
kana: こうし
entry:
(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


kanji: 邪馬台国
kana: やまたいこく
entry:
(n,arch) Yamataikoku/(Japanese history) a country that existed within Japan. Ruled by Queen Himiko in the third century AD


kanji: 年女
kana: としおんな
entry:
(n) Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year


kanji: 豆腐の角に頭をぶつけて死ね
kana: とうふのかどにあたまをぶつけてしね
entry:
(exp) take a long walk off a short pier/go stick your head in a pig/lit: bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die


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


kana: かたろぐれぞね
entry:
カタログレゾネ /(n) catalogue with the entire works of one artist (used to check authenticity)/catalogue raisonne/


kana: ちょん
entry:
チョン /(n,vulg,sl) abusive term used to refer to Koreans/(original meaning) idiot/Korean currency unit (1-100 of a won)/


kanji: に連れて
kana: につれて
entry:
(conj,uk) as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)


kanji: 腹を括る
kana: はらをくくる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to prepare oneself for the worst/to strengthen one's resolve/to accept one's fate/to prepare oneself


kana: どろん
entry:
ドロン /(n,vs) absconding/taking oneself off/slipping out (home) unnoticed early (e.g. from work, out of parties, etc.)/


kana: どろん
entry:
(n,vs) absconding/taking oneself off/slipping out (home) unnoticed early (e.g. from work, out of parties, etc.)


kanji: 木目込人形
kana: きめこみにんぎょう
entry:
(n) wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood/kimekomi doll


kanji: どら焼き
kana: どらやき
entry:
(n) Japanese dessert consisting of two slices of kasutera (sponge cake) with red bean jam in between


kanji: ろーらー作戦
kana: ろーらーさくせん
entry:
ローラー作戦 [ローラーさくせん] /(n,vs) community door-to-door campaign/search operation/cleaning campaign carried out thoroughly over an area/


kanji: 下
kana: しも
entry:
(n,adj-no) lower reaches (of a river)/bottom/lower part/lower half (of the body, esp. the privates)/feces (faeces)/urine/menses/end/far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan)


kanji: 光一
kana: ぴかいち
entry:
(n) scoring hand with one 20 point flower card and six 1 point flower cards/something (or someone) that stands out above the rest


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


kanji: ほろ苦い
kana: ほろにがい
entry:
ホロ苦い [ホロにがい] /(adv,adj-i) bittersweet/slightly bitter/something that has a strong taste that adults favor/


kanji: ほろ苦い
kana: ほろにがい
entry:
ホロ苦い [ほろにがい] /(adv,adj-i) bittersweet/slightly bitter/something that has a strong taste that adults favor/


kanji: ほろ苦い
kana: ほろにがい
entry:
ほろ苦い [ホロにがい] /(adv,adj-i) bittersweet/slightly bitter/something that has a strong taste that adults favor/


kanji: 宮
kana: きゅう
entry:
(n,abbr,n-suf) palace/tonic (of the Japanese &amp; Chinese pentatonic scale)/ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women)/zodiacal sign


kanji: 寄り
kana: より
entry:
(n,suf) pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters (sumo)/having a tendency towards/being close to


kanji: 星勘定
kana: ほしかんじょう
entry:
(n) sumo term "counting stars" for reckoning score to date/how well something has gone (e.g. in terms of wins over losses)


kanji: 界
kana: かい
entry:
(n,suf) (biological) kingdom/erathem (rock layer corresponding to the era in which it was deposited)/partition of land/the world of (some category)


kanji: 渇しても盗泉の水を飲まず
kana: かっしてもとうせんのみずをのまず
entry:
(exp) Even if thirsty not to drink from "Robber's Spring"/A proverb meaning not to lower oneself to unjust acts no matter how desperate/(English equivalent) The eagle does not hunt flies


kanji: 隴を得て蜀を望む
kana: ろうをえてしょくをのぞむ
entry:
(exp) never being satisfied with what one gets, and always wanting more (lit: taking Gansu only to want Sichuan)/give him an inch and he'll take a mile


kanji: 辞
kana: じ
entry:
(n) address (e.g. opening or closing remarks)/speech/words/ci (Chinese literary form)/ancillary word


kanji: 大取りより小取り
kana: おおとりよりことり
entry:
(exp) better small takings than a large win (lit)/expression meaning it is wiser to make money steadily over time/(English equivalent) Light gains make heavy purses


kanji: みいら取りがみいらになる
kana: みいらとりがみいらになる
entry:
ミイラ取りがミイラになる [ミイラとりがミイラになる] /(exp) the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy (lit)/the biter bit/the one who bites get bitten instead/


kanji: 屋
kana: や
entry:
(suf,n) (something) shop/somebody who sells (something) or works as (something)/somebody with a (certain) personality trait/house/roof


kanji: 大
kana: だい
entry:
(pref,suf,abbr,n) the large part of/big/large/great/approximate size/no larger than/-university/large (e.g. serving size)/loud (e.g. volume setting)


kanji: 羹に懲りて膾を吹く
kana: あつものにこりてなますをふく
entry:
(exp,obs) a burnt child dreads the fire/once bitten twice shy/an expression meaning to become over cautious from a bad experience


kanji: 部分肺静脈還流異常
kana: ぶぶんはいじょうみゃくかんりゅういじょう
entry:
(n) partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection/PAPVC/partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage/PAPVD/partial anomalous pulmonary venous return/PAPVR


kanji: 真魚箸
kana: まなばし
entry:
(n) type of long chopsticks used in the preparation of fish/type of long chopsticks used to hold the fish in carving knife ceremony


kanji: お晩彩
kana: おばんさい
entry:
(n,uk) light Kyoto-style home cooking with boiled vegetables and marinated food served in restaurants


kanji: 後夜祭
kana: こうやさい
entry:
(n) an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire &amp; dancing


kanji: 飽く
kana: あく
entry:
(v5k,vi,arch) to tire of/to lose interest in/to be satisfied/to enjoy/(after the -masu stem of a verb) to do adequately


kanji: 武
kana: ぶ
entry:
(n,arch) the art of war/martial arts/military arts/military force/the sword/valor/bravery/military officer/military man


kanji: 小
kana: しょう
entry:
(n,n-pref,abbr,arch) smallness/small item/short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days)/elementary school/younger or inferior (of two items or people with the same name)/unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m)


kana: べた
entry:
(adj-na,sl) things without gaps or spaces between them/something painted or printed solid/plain (e.g. plain text)/cliched/hackneyed


kanji: 四月病
kana: しがつびょう
entry:
(n) euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work


kana: になる
entry:
(suf) becomes/will become/turns out/(with "o" and masu-stem of verb) grammatical form creating an honorific verbal expression/(P)


kana: くれおーる
entry:
クレオール /(n) creole (pidgin which has become a mother tongue)/Creole (person of mixed ancestry, esp.in the Caribbean)/


kana: でじゃヴゅ
entry:
デジャヴュ /(exp) deja vu/something already seen or experienced/feeling of having seen or experienced something at least once before/


kana: でじゃびゅ
entry:
デジャビュ /(exp) deja vu/something already seen or experienced/feeling of having seen or experienced something at least once before/


kana: でじゃう
entry:
デジャウ /(exp) deja vu/something already seen or experienced/feeling of having seen or experienced something at least once before/


kanji: 睡眠預金
kana: すいみんよきん
entry:
(n) inactive bank account (no withdrawals or deposits made, and to which the owner's rights have been terminated)


kanji: 運動皮質
kana: うんどうひしつ
entry:
(n) motor cortex (area of the brain just anterior to the central sulcus responsible for controlling voluntary muscle activity)


kana: かりかり
entry:
(adj-f,vs,adv,adv-to) crisp/crunchy/to be crisp/to eat a crisp/to have a chip on one's shoulder/to be grumpy/to be irritated/to be annoyed/with crunching sound or effect


kanji: 気触れ
kana: かぶれ
entry:
(n,uk,n-suf) rash/eruption (in response to a skin irritant)/influence (usu. negative or critical nuance)/crazy about/having an affectation concerning all things surrounding something (esp. a language, a culture, etc.)/(P)


kanji: 噛ます
kana: かます
entry:
(v5s) to force something into someone's mouth (i.e. a gag)/to wedge something into a space, filling it/to feed someone (something)


kanji: ぼんたん飴
kana: ぼんたんあめ
entry:
(n) Botan Rice Candy (lemon orange flavored soft, chewy candy with an edible wrapper and includes a small Botan Ame)/Botan Ame/Bontan Ame


kanji: 一元管理
kana: いちげんかんり
entry:
(n,vs) uniform management/uniform control/to control centrally/to manage centrally/to consolidate/to unify


kanji: 元い
kana: もとい
entry:
(int,uk) (in calisthenics) return to your original position!/er, rather (used in speech to correct yourself)


kanji: 水干
kana: すいかん
entry:
(n) everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan/silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out


kana: し
entry:
(prt,conj,n,obsc) (at the end of a phrase) notes one (of several) reasons/10^24 (kanji is JIS X 0212 kuten 4906)/septillion (American)/(obs) quadrillion (British)/(P)


kana: りんくふりー
entry:
リンクフリー /(n) used on the web to indicate that people may link to that page or site without restriction/


kanji: 切韻
kana: せついん
entry:
(n) qieyun (ancient Chinese dictionary arranged by rhyme, displaying characters' meanings and representing their pronunciation with fanqie)


kanji: 反切
kana: はんせつ
entry:
(n) fanqie (traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone)


kanji: 鐶
kana: かん
entry:
(n) ring/link/open spirals of heavy metal wire twisted into a kettle and used to lift it (tea ceremony)


kanji: 興し
kana: おこし
entry:
(n,uk) millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)


kanji: 粔籹
kana: おこし
entry:
(n,uk,oK) millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)


kanji: の余り
kana: のあまり
entry:
(exp) so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry)/overwhelmed/carried away/because of too much


kanji: 膝皿貝
kana: ひざらがい
entry:
(n,uk) chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora)/sea cradle/Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)


kanji: 膝皿貝
kana: ひざらがい
entry:
膝皿貝 [ヒザラガイ] /(n,uk) chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora)/sea cradle/Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)/


kanji: 火皿貝
kana: ひざらがい
entry:
火皿貝 [ヒザラガイ] /(n,uk) chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora)/sea cradle/Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)/


kanji: 石鼈
kana: ひざらがい
entry:
石鼈 [ヒザラガイ] /(n,uk) chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora)/sea cradle/Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)/


kanji: 爺が背
kana: ひざらがい
entry:
爺が背 [ヒザラガイ] /(n,uk) chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora)/sea cradle/Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)/


kanji: 人事を尽くして天命を待つ
kana: じんじをつくしててんめいをまつ
entry:
(exp) Man proposes, God disposes (proverb) (lit: Man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven or fate)


kanji: 安全牌
kana: あんぜんぱい
entry:
(n) mahjong tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent/no-risk choice/easily handled person


kanji: 安全牌
kana: あんぜんぱい
entry:
安全牌 [あんぜんパイ] /(n) mahjong tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent/no-risk choice/easily handled person/


kanji: 安全ぱい
kana: あんぜんぱい
entry:
安全パイ [あんぜんぱい] /(n) mahjong tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent/no-risk choice/easily handled person/


kanji: 安全ぱい
kana: あんぜんぱい
entry:
安全パイ [あんぜんパイ] /(n) mahjong tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent/no-risk choice/easily handled person/


kanji: 笏
kana: しゃく
entry:
(n) shaku (flat wooden or ivory baton carried in the right hand when in ceremonial imperial or Shinto garb)


kanji: あごで使う
kana: あごでつかう
entry:
(exp,sl) to set somebody to work in an arrogant fashion (lit: to indicate by pointing one's chin)/to push somebody around/to chatter/to jaw/to jabber


kanji: 逆鱗に触れる
kana: げきりんにふれる
entry:
(exp) to infuriate your superior/to incur the anger of one's boss/to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon (one)/to provoke the Emperor's displeasure


kana: けり
entry:
(aux-v) indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past)/can form a poetic past tense/indicates continuation from the past to the present/end


kanji: 手が早い
kana: てがはやい
entry:
(exp) to be a quick worker/to be fast in forming relationships with women/to be quick to resort to violence


kanji: 大宝
kana: たいほう
entry:
(n,obsc) great treasure/Taihou era (701.3.21-704.5.10)/Daihou era/great treasure (used to refer to bodhisattvas, esoteric teachings, etc.)/homa-mandala (fire altar)


kanji: 建武
kana: けんむ
entry:
(n) Kemmu era (of unified Japan) (1334.1.29-1336.2.29), Kemmu era (of the Northern Court) (1336.2.29-1338.8.28)


kana: たる
entry:
(aux-v) (those) who are/(that) which is/often used in relation to qualifications and requirements for a position/in the capacity of


kanji: 甲子園
kana: こうしえん
entry:
(n) Koshien (location of Koshien Stadium, where the Japan National High School Baseball Tournament is held)


kanji: 帰米
kana: きべい
entry:
(n) name given to Japanese-American children (nisei) who were sent by their parents to Japan before WW2 to receive their schooling


kana: しーくわーしゃー
entry:
シークワーシャー /(n) flat lemon (Citrus depressa Hayata)/Hirami lemon/thin-skinned flat lemon/shekwasha/Taiwan tangerine/


kana: しくわーしゃー
entry:
シクワーシャー /(n) flat lemon (Citrus depressa Hayata)/Hirami lemon/thin-skinned flat lemon/shekwasha/Taiwan tangerine/


kana: しーくゎーさー
entry:
シークヮーサー /(n) flat lemon (Citrus depressa Hayata)/Hirami lemon/thin-skinned flat lemon/shekwasha/Taiwan tangerine/


kanji: 紺屋の白袴
kana: こうやのしろばかま
entry:
(exp) expression meaning that specialists often fail to apply their skills to themselves/lit: The dyer wears white


kanji: 釈迦に説法
kana: しゃかにせっぽう
entry:
(exp) teaching your grandmother to suck eggs/expression meaning teaching something to someone who knows more than you/lit: lecturing to the Buddha


kanji: 総書記
kana: そうしょき
entry:
(n) secretary-general/general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of the Democratic Republic of North Korea and the People's Republic of China)


kanji: 擬する
kana: ぎする
entry:
(vs-s,vt) to imitate/to copy/to mimic/to enter someone as a candidate/to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back)/to compare/to liken


kanji: 温泉卵
kana: おんせんたまご
entry:
(n) egg slow-boiled so that the yolk is hard but the white is still soft (traditionally cooked in a hot spring)


kanji: 三光作戦
kana: さんこうさくせん
entry:
(n) Three Alls Strategy/Three Lights Strategy (Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War)


kanji: 人中
kana: じんちゅう
entry:
(n) in company/among people/philtrum (groove in the upper lip that runs from the bottom of the nose to the lip)


kanji: 官寺
kana: かんじ
entry:
(n) state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period


kanji: 菩提を弔う
kana: ぼだいをとむらう
entry:
(exp) to hold a memorial service for the dead, praying for their happiness in the next life by chanting sutras


kanji: ごね得
kana: ごねどく
entry:
(n,col) getting what one wants by complaining or grumbling/profiting by holding out or taking a hard line/getting more by raising a ruckus


kana: ろんぱり
entry:
ロンパリ /(n,col) walleyes (from London-Paris, i.e. "One eye looks at London, one eye looks at Paris")/squint/divergent strabismus/


kanji: 馬鹿ちょんかめら
kana: ばかちょんかめら
entry:
馬鹿チョンカメラ [ばかチョンカメラ] /(n,uk,vulg) automatic camera (lit: "camera even idiots and simpletons can use")/


kanji: 馬鹿ちょんかめら
kana: ばかちょんかめら
entry:
馬鹿チョンカメラ [バカチョンカメラ] /(n,uk,vulg) automatic camera (lit: "camera even idiots and simpletons can use")/


kanji: 馬鹿でもちょんでも
kana: ばかでもちょんでも
entry:
馬鹿でもチョンでも [ばかでもチョンでも] /(exp,sens,vulg,X) easy/simple (lit: "even if you're an idiot or a simpleton")/


kanji: 別腹
kana: べつばら
entry:
(n) said of a person able to continue eating (e.g. dessert) after a large meal (lit: separate stomach)


kanji: 栴檀は双葉より芳しい
kana: せんだんはふたばよりかんばしい
entry:
(exp) expression meaning that genius shows from childhood (lit: the Japanese bead tree is fragrant from when a sprout)


kanji: 対岸の火事
kana: たいがんのかじ
entry:
(exp) no skin off my nose/expression meaning that somebody else's problem is no concern of yours/lit: fire on the opposite shore


kana: びびる
entry:
(v5r,vi,col) to feel nervous/to feel self-conscious/to feel surprise/to get cold feet/to get the jitters/to feel frightened


kanji: 合いの手を入れる
kana: あいのてをいれる
entry:
(exp) to make a gesture or say something during a break in conversation, playing of songs, etc./to interrupt


kana: ほっこり
entry:
(adv-to,vs,on-mim,exp) warm and fluffy/soft/steamy hot (food)/hot and flaky/feeling mentally tired/feeling of tired relief or accomplishment after effort or perseverance


kanji: 中台
kana: ちゅうだい
entry:
(n,obsc) exact center of the Garbhadhatu mandala/platform upon which the fire is lit in a stone lantern


kanji: 単立
kana: たんりつ
entry:
(n,obsc) establishing something (e.g. a company or a religious order) by oneself/company or religious order founded in such a way


kanji: 補作
kana: ほさく
entry:
(n) adding something to or altering a finished work of art/something added or altered in this manner


kana: でもない
entry:
(exp) neither... nor... (with the implication that there are other "nor..." items)/denying explicitly one thing and also denying implicitly other things as well/(P)


kanji: 祖霊
kana: それい
entry:
(n) ancestral spirit/collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities/ancestor deified as a kami/spirit of a kami


kana: までもない
entry:
(exp) (after verb phrase) doesn't amount to doing (something)/not significant enough to require (something)/(P)


kanji: 無くてはならない
kana: なくてはならない
entry:
(exp,uk) cannot do without something/indispensable/absolutely necessary/(after negative base of verb) have to do


kana: でもある
entry:
(v5r) to also be (formal, literary)/implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case/to be ... or something/(P)


kanji: 示準化石
kana: じじゅんかせき
entry:
(n) index fossil (fossil which suggests a date of the formation of a rock stratum)/key fossil/leading fossil


kanji: 教科書問題
kana: きょうかしょもんだい
entry:
(n) controversy over school textbooks (i.e. history texts avoiding reference to Japanese military, etc. acts)


kana: ついつい
entry:
(adv,on-mim) unintentionally/unconsciously/by mistake/against one's better judgement/against one's better judgment


kanji: 無い袖は振れぬ
kana: ないそではふれぬ
entry:
(exp) you can't give (use) what you don't have/nothing comes from nothing/lit: you can't shake sleeves you don't have


kanji: 都々逸
kana: どどいつ
entry:
(n,obsc,obs,arch) unrhymed non-metrical Japanese popular love song or limerick in the 7-7-7-5 syllable pattern


kanji: 危ない橋を渡る
kana: あぶないはしをわたる
entry:
(exp) to tread on thin ice (lit: to cross a dangerous bridge)/to go out on a limb/to walk a tightrope/to take risks


kanji: お茶を濁す
kana: おちゃをにごす
entry:
(exp) to make do with/to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation/to speak ambiguously/to prevaricate/to be evasive/to give an evasive answer


kanji: 格好をつける
kana: かっこうをつける
entry:
(exp) to make something look better/to put into (good, better) shape/to put up a front/to pose/to pretend


kanji: 格好をつける
kana: かっこをつける
entry:
(exp,ik) to make something look better/to put into (good, better) shape/to put up a front/to pose/to pretend


kanji: 鴨がねぎを背負って来る
kana: かもがねぎをしょってくる
entry:
(exp) along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money (lit: a duck comes carrying an onion)


kanji: 毫光
kana: ごうこう
entry:
(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)


kanji: お後がよろしいようで
kana: おあとがよろしいようで
entry:
(exp) (from rakugo) that's all from me, and now the next speaker .../expression used to hand over to the next speaker


kanji: 発破を掛ける
kana: はっぱをかける
entry:
(exp) to set off an explosive/to start a fire under someone/an expression meaning to motivate someone with rough words


kanji: 立件
kana: りっけん
entry:
(n,adj-no,vs) assembling a case (for prosecution)/precondition or prerequisite for prosecution/to build a criminal case against someone


kanji: くらす替え
kana: くらすがえ
entry:
クラス替え [クラスがえ] /(n) (school) class change/class shuffle/rearrangement of which students are in which teachers class/


kanji: うぐいす張り
kana: うぐいすばり
entry:
(n) nightingale (flooring)/method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)


kanji: くわえ込む
kana: くわえこむ
entry:
(v5m) to hold fast deep in (one's mouth or other orifice, often used in a sexual context)/to bring in a man for sex


kana: ちゃんぷるー
entry:
チャンプルー /(n) chanpuru/champuru/Okinawan stir-fry dish, usually containing vegetables (especially bitter melon), tofu, meat or fish (poss. from Indonesian "campur" meaning mixed)/


kanji: 非核三原則
kana: ひかくさんげんそく
entry:
(n) Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)


kanji: 産
kana: さん
entry:
(n,n-suf) (giving) birth/childbirth/delivery/confinement/native of/product of/assets/property/fortune


kanji: 七変化
kana: しちへんげ
entry:
(n,uk) lantana (plant, flower)/Kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times


kanji: 七変化
kana: しちへんげ
entry:
七変化 [シチヘンゲ] /(n,uk) lantana (plant, flower)/Kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times/


kanji: 破体
kana: はたい
entry:
(n) in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style


kana: いらまちお
entry:
イラマチオ /(n,vulg,sl) irrumatio (fellatio wherein the majority of movement is performed by the felatee)/


kana: いまらちお
entry:
イマラチオ /(n,vulg,sl) irrumatio (fellatio wherein the majority of movement is performed by the felatee)/


kanji: 万景峰号
kana: まんぎょんぼんごう
entry:
万景峰号 [マンギョンボンごう] /(n) Mangyongbong-92, a mixed passenger-cargo ferry running between Wonsan in North Korea and Niigata/


kanji: 万景峰号
kana: ばんけほうごう
entry:
(n) Mangyongbong-92, a mixed passenger-cargo ferry running between Wonsan in North Korea and Niigata


kanji: まんぎょんぼん号
kana: まんぎょんぼんごう
entry:
マンギョンボン号 [マンギョンボンごう] /(n) Mangyongbong-92, a mixed passenger-cargo ferry running between Wonsan in North Korea and Niigata/


kanji: まんぎょんぼん号
kana: ばんけほうごう
entry:
マンギョンボン号 [ばんけほうごう] /(n) Mangyongbong-92, a mixed passenger-cargo ferry running between Wonsan in North Korea and Niigata/


kanji: まんぎょんぼん号
kana: まんけいほうごう
entry:
マンギョンボン号 [まんけいほうごう] /(n) Mangyongbong-92, a mixed passenger-cargo ferry running between Wonsan in North Korea and Niigata/


kanji: 盗人猛々しい
kana: ぬすっとたけだけしい
entry:
(exp) phrase used to berate someone for arguing back when caught out in wrongdoing/(lit: impudent thief!)


kanji: 纏る
kana: まつる
entry:
(v5r,vt) to blindstitch the inside of a fold with (equally spaced) threadings (i.e. pulling shoe lacing tight)


kanji: 被せ
kana: きせ
entry:
(n) not folding on a stitch but placing the fold (2mm) deeper past the stitch, folding the excess back to cover the stitch


kanji: 縫い代を割る
kana: ぬいしろをわる
entry:
(exp) to stop an inside seam rolling about/to press open a seam (and open the left and right sides out)


kanji: 身八つ
kana: みやつ
entry:
(n,abbr) small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)


kanji: 事情通
kana: じじょうつう
entry:
(n) having good knowledge of a certain matter/a person who has good knowledge of a certain matter/informed source


kana: なんばーくろす
entry:
ナンバークロス /(n) number crossword (var. of kanji crossword puzzle with numbers where squares with the same number contain the same kanji)/


kana: なんくろ
entry:
ナンクロ /(n,abbr) number crossword (var. of kanji crossword puzzle with numbers where squares with the same number contain the same kanji)/


kanji: 一暴十寒
kana: いちばくじっかん
entry:
(exp) bursts of exertion will fail to bear fruit if interrupted by long periods of idleness/strenuous efforts, unless sustained, are to no avail (Mencius)


kana: ねかま
entry:
ネカマ /(n,sl) someone who plays (portrays themselves as) the opposite sex online (formed from netto and okama)/


kanji: 商売女
kana: しょうばいおんな
entry:
(n) woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.)/woman who works in an adult entertainment business/woman from the red-light district


kanji: 継続は力なり
kana: けいぞくはちからなり
entry:
(exp) persevering through something difficult makes one stronger/whatever doesn't kill us only makes us stronger/slow but steady wins the race


kanji: 湯桶
kana: ゆとう
entry:
(n) pail-like wooden container typically lacquered in Japanese style, used for holding and serving hot liquids


kanji: 土壇
kana: どだん
entry:
(n) dirt mound/dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room/platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period


kanji: 据え物
kana: すえもの
entry:
(n) ornament/dead body used to test a blade/unlicensed prostitute who always works out of the same cathouse


kanji: 本人負担
kana: ほんにんふたん
entry:
(n) paying for the purchase (expense) out of one's own pocket/being responsible for the payment of one's share of the purchase price, expense, etc.


kanji: Ｍ字開脚
kana: えむじかいきゃく
entry:
Ｍ字開脚 [エムじかいきゃく] /(n) pornographic pose (spreading one's legs open wide with knees bent, creating the shape of the letter 'M')/


kanji: 虎杖
kana: いたどり
entry:
(n,uk) Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica)/Japanese fleeceflower/Mexican bamboo/Polygonum cuspidatum/Reynoutria japonica


kanji: 虎杖
kana: いたどり
entry:
虎杖 [イタドリ] /(n,uk) Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica)/Japanese fleeceflower/Mexican bamboo/Polygonum cuspidatum/Reynoutria japonica/


kanji: あめりか合衆国連邦緊急事態管理庁
kana: あめりかがっしゅうこくれんぽうきんきゅうじたいかんりちょう
entry:
アメリカ合衆国連邦緊急事態管理庁 [アメリカがっしゅうこくれんぽうきんきゅうじたいかんりちょう] /(n) Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States/FEMA/


kanji: 馬鹿穴
kana: ばかあな
entry:
(n) clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)


kanji: 潜く
kana: かずく
entry:
(v5k,uk,arch) to be underwater from the neck down/to collect shells, seaweed, etc. by diving under the water/to force something under the surface of the water


kanji: 被く
kana: かずく
entry:
(v5k,uk,arch) to wear on the head/to have cloth, clothing, etc. bestowed upon one by their lord or master/to wear such cloth on the left shoulder/to be injured


kanji: 被ける
kana: かずける
entry:
(v1,uk,arch) to place a hat, etc. on someone's head/to award clothing to someone as a reward or a souvenir/to place the blame or burden of responsibility on someone else


kanji: 一盗二婢
kana: いっとうにひ
entry:
(exp) The most thrilling types of sexual relationship for a man are, first, stealing someone's wife and, second, with a maidservant


kanji: 百害あって一利無し
kana: ひゃくがいあっていちりなし
entry:
(exp) no good/all pain, no gain/do no good and a lot of harm/completely a disadvantage (lit: great damage with no advantage)


kanji: いんど・よーろっぱ祖語
kana: いんど・よーろっぱそご
entry:
インド・ヨーロッパ祖語 [インド・ヨーロッパそご] /(n) Proto-Indo-European (hypothetical language from which all Indo-European languages are derived)/


kanji: いんど・よーろっぱ祖語
kana: いんどよーろっぱそご
entry:
インド・ヨーロッパ祖語 [インドヨーロッパそご] /(n) Proto-Indo-European (hypothetical language from which all Indo-European languages are derived)/


kanji: いんどよーろっぱ祖語
kana: いんど・よーろっぱそご
entry:
インドヨーロッパ祖語 [インド・ヨーロッパそご] /(n) Proto-Indo-European (hypothetical language from which all Indo-European languages are derived)/


kanji: いんどよーろっぱ祖語
kana: いんどよーろっぱそご
entry:
インドヨーロッパ祖語 [インドヨーロッパそご] /(n) Proto-Indo-European (hypothetical language from which all Indo-European languages are derived)/


kanji: 印欧基語
kana: いんおうきご
entry:
(n,adj-no) Proto-Indo-European (hypothetical language from which all Indo-European languages are derived)


kana: むじゃーひでぃーん
entry:
ムジャーヒディーン /(n) mujahideen/mujahedin/mujahidin/mujaheddin/(fundamentalist) Islamic guerrilla fighters/


kanji: 清見おれんじ
kana: きよみおれんじ
entry:
清見オレンジ [きよみオレンジ] /(n) Kiyomi orange/type of tangor (tangerine-orange hybrid)/Citrus unshiu sinensis/


kanji: 清見おれんじ
kana: きよみおれんじ
entry:
清見オレンジ [キヨミオレンジ] /(n) Kiyomi orange/type of tangor (tangerine-orange hybrid)/Citrus unshiu sinensis/


kanji: 足根
kana: そくこん
entry:
(adj-f) tarsal (relating to the tarsus - a group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)


kanji: 八分
kana: はちぶ
entry:
(n) eight-tenths/casting someone out/type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg


kanji: 七分
kana: しちぶん
entry:
(n) type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg


kanji: 噴水効果
kana: ふんすいこうか
entry:
(n) fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)


kanji: しゃわー効果
kana: しゃわーこうか
entry:
シャワー効果 [シャワーこうか] /(n) shower effect (theory that placing high-selling items on the upper floors of a department store will lead to increased sales in the lower floors)/


kanji: 大躍進
kana: だいやくしん
entry:
(n,vs) Great Leap Forward (failed attempt to industrialize China and increase agricultural production, from 1958-1960)/significant breakthrough/great strides


kanji: 歌がるた
kana: うたがるた
entry:
歌ガルタ [うたガルタ] /(n) cards with stanzas of waka written on them/card-matching game played with these cards/


kanji: 歌がるた
kana: うたがるた
entry:
歌ガルタ [うたがるた] /(n) cards with stanzas of waka written on them/card-matching game played with these cards/


kanji: 歌加留多
kana: うたがるた
entry:
歌加留多 [うたガルタ] /(n) cards with stanzas of waka written on them/card-matching game played with these cards/


kana: はーとめいる
entry:
ハートメイル /(n) postcards associated with Respect-for-the-Aged Day, and sold every year starting in September/


kana: はーとめーる
entry:
ハートメール /(n) postcards associated with Respect-for-the-Aged Day, and sold every year starting in September/


kanji: えこー葉書
kana: えこーはがき
entry:
エコー葉書 [エコーはがき] /(n,uk) postcards with the bottom third of the front side reserved for an advertisement, and sold at a lower cost than regular postcards/


kanji: 水晶の夜
kana: すいしょうのよる
entry:
(n) Kristallnacht (night of concerted violence against Jews in Germany and Austria from November 9-10, 1938)


kana: べとみん
entry:
ベトミン /(n) Vietminh (Vietnamese Independence League organized to obtain freedom from French colonial rule)/


kana: べとこん
entry:
ベトコン /(n) Vietcong/Viet Cong (communist guerrilla soldiers who fought in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War)/


kanji: 独活の大木
kana: うどのたいぼく
entry:
(exp) good for nothing (of people)/derived from a large 'udo' plant being of no use (only the young, tender, plant can be eaten)


kanji: 字
kana: あざな
entry:
(n) Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations)/nickname/section of a village


kanji: ぱーし人
kana: ぱーしじん
entry:
パーシ人 [パーシじん] /(n) Parsee/Parsi (adherent of Zoroastrianism, esp. descendants of those who fled to India to escape persecution in Persia)/


kanji: 下学上達
kana: かがくじょうたつ
entry:
(n,vs) beginning one's studies with something familiar and gradually increasing the depth of learning


kanji: 昭和元禄
kana: しょうわげんろく
entry:
(n) the flourishing mid-Showa period (1960s and early 1970s) of peace, rapid economic growth, and life of ease


kanji: ええ加減にしいや
kana: ええかげんにしいや
entry:
(exp,uk) I've had enough of your messing around (orig. a phrase signaling the end of a manzai performance)


kanji: 郭言葉
kana: くるわことば
entry:
(n,arch) language used in red-light districts during the Edo period/vulgar words used by prostitutes from the Edo period


kanji: 台直し鉋
kana: だいなおしかんな
entry:
(n) plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes


kanji: 縁は異なもの
kana: えんはいなもの
entry:
(exp) inscrutable are the ways people are brought together/there is no telling how people are brought together


kanji: 騎乗位
kana: きじょうい
entry:
(n,vulg) sexual position where the man lies flat on his back and the woman sits on top/cowgirl position


kanji: せんたーＧＵＹ
kana: せんたーがい
entry:
センターＧＵＹ [センターガイ] /(n,sl) young men with deep tans (or dark makeup) who wear white eyeliner and lipstick/


kanji: いろち買い
kana: いろちがい
entry:
イロチ買い [いろちがい] /(n,vs,sl) buying the same item multiple times, each one being a different color (colour)/


kanji: いろち買い
kana: いろちがい
entry:
イロチ買い [イロチがい] /(n,vs,sl) buying the same item multiple times, each one being a different color (colour)/


kanji: 色ち買い
kana: いろちがい
entry:
色チ買い [いろちがい] /(n,vs,sl) buying the same item multiple times, each one being a different color (colour)/


kanji: 色ち買い
kana: いろちがい
entry:
色チ買い [イロチがい] /(n,vs,sl) buying the same item multiple times, each one being a different color (colour)/


kanji: 色ち買い
kana: いろちがい
entry:
色ち買い [イロチがい] /(n,vs,sl) buying the same item multiple times, each one being a different color (colour)/


kanji: 勝負服
kana: しょうぶふく
entry:
(n,sl) jockey's racing uniform/one's best clothes (esp. for women), normally put aside for important meetings, dates, etc.


kanji: 腰ぱん
kana: こしぱん
entry:
腰パン [こしパン] /(n,abbr,sl) wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist)/pants worn in such a manner/


kanji: 古糊
kana: ふるのり
entry:
(n) aged paste/microbially fermented weak adhesive for restoration of Japanese works of art on paper


kanji: 角字
kana: かくじ
entry:
(n) type of lettering consisting of thick vertical and horizontal lines which is often used in seals


kanji: 二重敬語
kana: にじゅうけいご
entry:
(n) redundant keigo (i.e. improper use of the -rareru honorific form together with an honorific verb such as ossharu)


kanji: お姉系ぎゃる
kana: おねえけいぎゃる
entry:
お姉系ギャル [おねえけいギャル] /(n) fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories/


kanji: お姉系
kana: おねえけい
entry:
(n,abbr) fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories


kanji: お姉ぎゃる
kana: おねえぎゃる
entry:
お姉ギャル [おねえギャル] /(n,abbr) fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories/


kanji: お兄系
kana: おにいけい
entry:
(n) men's fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories


kanji: お兄系
kana: おにいけい
entry:
お兄系 [オニイけい] /(n) men's fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories/


kanji: おにい系
kana: おにいけい
entry:
おにい系 [オニイけい] /(n) men's fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories/


kanji: おにい系
kana: おにいけい
entry:
オニイ系 [おにいけい] /(n) men's fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories/


kanji: おにい系
kana: おにいけい
entry:
オニイ系 [オニイけい] /(n) men's fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories/


kanji: ぎゃる文字
kana: ぎゃるもじ
entry:
ギャル文字 [ギャルもじ] /(n) obfuscated style of Japanese text, used particularly by young women in keitai emails/


kanji: 逆子体操
kana: さかごたいそう
entry:
(n) exercise regime to convert breech presentation/trying to correct an unborn child's improper position so that the head comes out first


kanji: 水を向ける
kana: みずをむける
entry:
(exp) taking a stab at arousing someone's interest/(of a shrine maiden) presenting water to spirits while invoking them/offering water before a grave


kanji: 赤菱
kana: あかびし
entry:
(n) Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross)


kanji: 手向ける
kana: たむける
entry:
(v1,vt) to offer something to a deity or somebody's spirit/to pay a tribute to a person who is about to depart


kana: やりさー
entry:
ヤリサー /(n) (university) club that exists for the purpose of getting women drunk and taking advantage of them/


kanji: 遣り逃げ
kana: やりにげ
entry:
(n,sl,vulg) having sex with a woman and then breaking off contact with her (esp. after telling her that you love her)/wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am/hit it and quit it/fuck and chuck


kanji: 気を回す
kana: きをまわす
entry:
(exp) to read too much into things/to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild/to have a groundless suspicion


kanji: 安牌
kana: あんぱい
entry:
(n) 'safe' tile in mahjong (one that won't be taken up by other players if discarded)/someone that can be safely ignored (e.g. in some competitive situation)


kanji: 水雲
kana: もずく
entry:
水雲 [モズク] /(n,uk) mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed)/


kanji: 藻付
kana: もずく
entry:
藻付 [モズク] /(n,uk) mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed)/


kanji: 海蘊
kana: もずく
entry:
海蘊 [モズク] /(n,uk) mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed)/


kanji: 海雲
kana: もずく
entry:
海雲 [モズク] /(n,uk) mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed)/


kana: ことよろ
entry:
(n,col,abbr) abbreviation of "kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegai shimasu" (please be kind to me again this year)


kana: ことよる
entry:
コトヨル /(n,col,abbr) abbreviation of "kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegai shimasu" (please be kind to me again this year)/


kanji: 楮
kana: こうぞ
entry:
楮 [コウゾ] /(n,uk) hybrid mulberry tree used to make Japanese paper (Broussonetia kazinoki x papyrifera)/


kana: だいえっとふりかけ
entry:
ダイエットふりかけ /(n,col) furikake put on rice to make it blue, which is said to act as an appetite suppressant/


kanji: 手も足も出ない
kana: てもあしもでない
entry:
(exp) cannot do a thing/feeling handcuffed/being at the end of one's tether/being at one's wit's end


kana: ずらかる
entry:
(v5r) to leave/to run away/to escape/to avoid detection after having done something/to play truant/to skedaddle


kanji: 持ち物検査
kana: もちものけんさ
entry:
(n) checking the personal belongings with someone for items against regulation (e.g. at school, airports, etc.)


kanji: 付け下げ
kana: つけさげ
entry:
(n) method of patterning traditional Japanese clothing (the tops of all of patterns being pointed at the highest part of the shoulder)


kana: ぶっしゅ・どくとりん
entry:
ブッシュ・ドクトリン /(n) Bush Doctrine (American foreign policy guidelines allowing preemptive war, unilateral action, etc.)/


kana: ぶっしゅどくとりん
entry:
ブッシュドクトリン /(n) Bush Doctrine (American foreign policy guidelines allowing preemptive war, unilateral action, etc.)/


kanji: 小手返し
kana: こてがえし
entry:
(n) Aikido technique, wherein the opponent is brought down by twisting his or her arm away from the body


kanji: 尻尾を巻く
kana: しっぽをまく
entry:
(exp) (a person) to admit defeat/to turn tail (and run)/(a dog) to tuck one's tail between one's legs


kanji: 寝首をかく
kana: ねくびをかく
entry:
(exp) to cut off the head of a sleeping person/to assassinate someone while he sleeps/to catch someone off his guard by setting traps


kanji: 何気に
kana: なにげに
entry:
(adv,col) inadvertantly/for no special reason/truthfully/unexpectedly/after realizing/without knowing


kanji: ありばい会社
kana: ありばいがいしゃ
entry:
アリバイ会社 [アリバイがいしゃ] /(n) front company set up to hide someone's true profession by pretending to employ them (often used by call girls)/


kana: さくっ
entry:
(adv-to,on-mim) with a crunching or grinding sound/quickly/promptly/abruptly/simply/efficiently/crispily/crunchily


kana: さくっ
entry:
サクッ /(adv-to,on-mim) with a crunching or grinding sound/quickly/promptly/abruptly/simply/efficiently/crispily/crunchily/


kanji: 逆ぎれ
kana: ぎゃくぎれ
entry:
逆ギレ [ぎゃくギレ] /(n,vs,sl) being angry at someone who would normally be angry at you/situation wherein the offender is angry at the victim/


kanji: 逆ぎれ
kana: ぎゃくぎれ
entry:
逆ギレ [ぎゃくぎれ] /(n,vs,sl) being angry at someone who would normally be angry at you/situation wherein the offender is angry at the victim/


kanji: 逆切れ
kana: ぎゃくぎれ
entry:
逆切れ [ぎゃくギレ] /(n,vs,sl) being angry at someone who would normally be angry at you/situation wherein the offender is angry at the victim/


kanji: 逆切れ
kana: ぎゃくぎれ
entry:
(n,vs,sl) being angry at someone who would normally be angry at you/situation wherein the offender is angry at the victim


kana: ふる・すくりーん
entry:
フル・スクリーン /(n) full screen (display on computer)/full screen (video release of widescreen movie resized for 4:3 image display)/


kana: ふるすくりーん
entry:
フルスクリーン /(n) full screen (display on computer)/full screen (video release of widescreen movie resized for 4:3 image display)/


kanji: 当社比
kana: とうしゃひ
entry:
(n,col) compared to our company's products (a phrase often used in advertising when comparing old and new products)/in this company's comparison/as I see it/by my estimate


kanji: お愛想
kana: おあいそ
entry:
(n,pol) compliment/flattery/service/hospitality/bill (at a restaurant; formerly, not used by customers)/check


kanji: だめ出し
kana: だめだし
entry:
ダメ出し [ダメだし] /(n,sl) judging someone (negatively) and urging them to improve/finding fault (in somebody's work)/


kanji: だめ出し
kana: だめだし
entry:
ダメ出し [だめだし] /(n,sl) judging someone (negatively) and urging them to improve/finding fault (in somebody's work)/


kanji: 駄目出し
kana: だめだし
entry:
駄目出し [ダメだし] /(n,sl) judging someone (negatively) and urging them to improve/finding fault (in somebody's work)/


kanji: お稲荷さん
kana: おいなりさん
entry:
(n,hon,pol) Inari (god of harvests, wealth, fertility, etc.)/Inari shrine/Inari-zushi (sushi wrapped in fried tofu)


kanji: 飽食時代
kana: ほうしょくじだい
entry:
(n) current era of excessive eating/era in which there is more than enough food/age of plenty/age of plentiful food


kana: わんこーる
entry:
ワンコール /(n) one mobile telephone ring (used by companies, usually sex-related, to register a phone number on a mobile in the hope people will return the call)/


kanji: やん車
kana: やんしゃ
entry:
ヤン車 [ヤンしゃ] /(n,abbr,sl) low-riding vehicle usually containing a powerful speaker system and owned by a juvenile delinquent/pimped-out ride/


kanji: ぎゃる車
kana: ぎゃるしゃ
entry:
ギャル車 [ギャルしゃ] /(n,sl) girly car (often full of plastic flowers, stuffed animals, etc.) owned by a young, trendy female/


kanji: びじゅある系
kana: びじゅあるけい
entry:
ビジュアル系 [ビジュアルけい] /(n) a handsome man (esp. one who knows this)/a musical group that places importance on visuals such as makeup/


kana: きゃぴきゃぴ
entry:
(n,vs,col) acting all cute and charged up/brimming with youthful enthusiasm/in high spirits/raring to go/overflowing with youthful energy (used mainly of girls)


kana: ころっと
entry:
(adv,on-mim) sound of something small rolling once (often into a hole)/disappointing/complete reversal of a situation/curling up into the fetal position/going to sleep suddenly


kanji: ごっつん盗
kana: ごっつんとう
entry:
(n,sl) stealing a car by rear-ending it lightly and having a friend jump in and drive off after the driver gets out


kanji: 笹掻き
kana: ささがき
entry:
(n,vs) cut into long thin shavings (primarily vegetables), in the manner a pencil is sharpened with a knife


kanji: 尊大語
kana: そんだいご
entry:
(n,hon) speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener/language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener


kana: ぱたぱた
entry:
(adv,vs,on-mim) flap (sound of something light and thin such as a fan moving through the air)/pitter-patter (sound of light footsteps)/dealing with a situation quickly


kana: ぶすっと
entry:
(adv,vs,on-mim) sound of something thick and soft being pierced by something sharp and hard/containing sullen anger or discontempt


kanji: 学生会
kana: がくせいかい
entry:
(n) student council (details vary widely but a body of students that takes part in overseeing student behaviour or student activities)


kanji: 刀折れ矢尽きて
kana: かたなおれやつきて
entry:
(exp) having exhausted every available means (lit: having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows)


kanji: 玉入れ
kana: たまいれ
entry:
(n) ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole (played at sports festivals)


kana: え
entry:
(int,prt,arch) eh? (surprise)/eh (agreement)/strengthens a question, assertion, etc./(after a noun) used when calling out to someone


kana: ってゆうか
entry:
(conj,col) or rather (say)/or better (say)/or perhaps I should say/or, how should I put it,.../I mean


kanji: 現役合格
kana: げんえきごうかく
entry:
(n) passing university entrance exams in the last year of high school (instead of failing then taking gap year(s))


kanji: 狐につままれたよう
kana: きつねにつままれたよう
entry:
(exp) to feel bewildered (being unable to grasp the situation)/to be befuddled/to be confused/to be at a loss about what to do


kanji: 三度の飯より好き
kana: さんどのめしよりすき
entry:
(exp) very fond of/more fond of than eating/lit: more important than three meals a day/so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without


kanji: 巧言令色鮮し仁
kana: こうげんれいしょくすくなしじん
entry:
(exp,arch) those who resort to blandishments and fawning smiles are apt to lack compassion/a honeyed tongue with a heart of gall


kanji: 万緑叢中紅一点
kana: ばんりょくそうちゅうこういってん
entry:
(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


kanji: 普及啓発
kana: ふきゅうけいはつ
entry:
(n) public awareness (e.g. publicity and education campaigns aimed at improving the health, environment, etc.)


kanji: 安定期
kana: あんていき
entry:
(n) stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)


kanji: 櫃まぶし
kana: ひつまぶし
entry:
(n) eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and serve on rice


kanji: 降誕祭
kana: こうたんさい
entry:
(n) Christmas (authentic term now used within Japanese Christian denominations)/celebration of the birthday of a saint or great man


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


kanji: 過ぎ来し方
kana: すぎこしかた
entry:
(exp) the past/bygone days (years, age, etc.)/the course (route) one has come by/the direction one came from


kanji: そうは問屋が卸さない
kana: そうはとんやがおろさない
entry:
(exp) things don't work that well in the real world/things seldom go as one wishes/that is expecting too much


kanji: 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む
kana: もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ
entry:
(exp) expression meaning that you learn, without realising it, from what is around you/a saint's maid quotes Latin/lit: the young monk before the gate can read sutra without studying them


kanji: 士族の商法
kana: しぞくのしょうほう
entry:
(exp) amateurish and haughty way of doing business/venturing into an unfamiliar line of business (and often failing)


kanji: 特定疾患
kana: とくていしっかん
entry:
(n) diseases specified by the Japanese government as being worrisome, having no known treatment and of unknown causes


kanji: 変異型くろいつふぇるとやこぶ病
kana: へんいがたくろいつふぇるとやこぶびょう
entry:
変異型クロイツフェルトヤコブ病 [へんいがたクロイツフェルトヤコブびょう] /(n) variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease/vCJD/new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease/nvCJD/


kanji: 薬害やこぶ病訴訟
kana: やくがいやこぶびょうそしょう
entry:
薬害ヤコブ病訴訟 [やくがいヤコブびょうそしょう] /(n) Japanese lawsuit involving cases where hospitalized patients contracted Creutzfeld-Jakob disease from infected transplants/


kanji: 誤嚥
kana: ごえん
entry:
(n,vs) breathing in (of a foreign body, food, etc.)/pulmonary aspiration/mis-swallowing/swallowing down the wrong pipe


kanji: 侘び寂び
kana: わびさび
entry:
侘び寂び [ワビサビ] /(n,uk) aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement/


kanji: 侘寂
kana: わびさび
entry:
侘寂 [ワビサビ] /(n,uk) aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement/


kanji: 詫び寂び
kana: わびさび
entry:
詫び寂び [ワビサビ] /(n,uk,iK) aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement/


kana: ねげっと
entry:
ネゲット /(n,vs,col,abbr) 'getting' someone who is a net acquaintance (e.g. forming a physical relationship)/


kana: ふるーつどりんく
entry:
フルーツドリンク /(n) mixed juice drink (may contain non-fruit ingredients such as milk or yogurt) (from fruit drink)/


kanji: 悪妻は百年の不作
kana: あくさいはひゃくねんのふさく
entry:
(exp) a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband/a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband


kanji: 閑寂枯淡
kana: かんじゃくこたん
entry:
(n,adj-na,adj-no) aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement


kanji: 毛
kana: もう
entry:
(n) 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)/old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)


kana: すーぱーすぷれっだー
entry:
スーパースプレッダー /(n) super spreader (carrier of a viral disease who spreads the virus to a large number of other people)/


kanji: 尻を捲る
kana: しりをまくる
entry:
(exp) to abandon a humble attitude and get on one's high horse/suddenly to assume an antagonistic attitude


kanji: 金魚の糞
kana: きんぎょのふん
entry:
(n,id) a person who tags along (lit: goldfish droppings)/hanger-on/a person who follows someone around like a shadow/clingy person


kana: いなばうあー
entry:
イナバウアー /(n) Ina Bauer (figure skating technique first performed in 1957 by West German skater Ina Bauer)/(P)/


kanji: もやもや病
kana: もやもやびょう
entry:
(n) moyamoya disease (rare, progressive cerebrovascular disorder caused by blocked arteries in the basal ganglia)


kanji: 高これすてろーる血症
kana: こうこれすてろーるちしょう
entry:
高コレステロール血症 [こうコレステロールちしょう] /(n) hypercholesterolemia/hypercholesterolaemia (excess of cholesterol in the bloodstream)/


kanji: ぶるがだ症候群
kana: ぶるがだしょうこうぐん
entry:
ブルガダ症候群 [ブルガダしょうこうぐん] /(n) Brugada syndrome (genetic condition resulting in increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest)/


kanji: 博多祇園山笠
kana: はかたぎおんやまかさ
entry:
(n) festival held in July in Fukuoka City/Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival (often just called Yamakasa Festival)


kana: くおりあ
entry:
クオリア /(n) quale/qualia (qualities or feelings considered independently of their effects on behavior)/


kana: てば
entry:
(prt) indicates emotional closeness or annoyance with someone/indicates a indirect command by expressing annoyance (in sentence-final position)


kana: ものか
entry:
(prt) used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true


kana: ものですか
entry:
(exp,fem) used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true


kanji: お印
kana: おしるし
entry:
(n,uk) a show/blood-stained mucus discharge that happens during pregnancy up to two weeks before delivery/signature mark (crest) used by members of the Imperial family to mark their belongings


kanji: 砕けた
kana: くだけた
entry:
(adj-f) easy (e.g. explanation, description)/plain/familiar/informal (e.g. greeting, expression)/friendly/affable (e.g. person)


kanji: 欲も得もない
kana: よくもとくもない
entry:
(exp) having thought for neither gain nor greed/only wanting to do something (thinking about nothing else)


kanji: 打っ掛け
kana: ぶっかけ
entry:
(n,uk,sl,vulg) splashing on/splashing at/dish made by pouring broth over something (esp. bukkakesoba)/ejaculation onto someone's face


kanji: 幻日
kana: げんじつ
entry:
(n,adj-no) parhelion/sun dog/sundog (bright spot on either side of the sun caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere)


kanji: 幻月
kana: げんげつ
entry:
(n) paraselene/moon dog/moondog (bright spot on either side of the moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere)


kanji: 宮中三殿
kana: きゅうちゅうさんでん
entry:
(n) the palace sanctuary, shrine of imperial ancestors and temple inside the Japanese imperial palace


kanji: 講書始
kana: こうしょはじめ
entry:
(n) Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)


kanji: 椀子蕎麦
kana: わんこそば
entry:
(n,uk) soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl


kanji: 緊急集会
kana: きんきゅうしゅうかい
entry:
(n) emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)


kanji: 春秋の筆法
kana: しゅんじゅうのひっぽう
entry:
(n) critical argument laden with value judgment, where an indirect cause, often trivial, is made to appear as leading to the effect


kanji: 女系天皇
kana: じょけいてんのう
entry:
(n) matrilineal emperor of Japan/emperor (either male or female) whose mother is (was) a member of the Imperial family but whose father is (was) not


kanji: 小選挙区比例代表並立制
kana: しょうせんきょくひれいだいひょうへいりつせい
entry:
(n) electoral system comprised of single-seat constituencies and proportionally represented multiple-seat constituencies


kanji: 絶対安定多数
kana: ぜったいあんていたすう
entry:
(n) overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties)


kanji: 不逮捕特権
kana: ふたいほとっけん
entry:
(n) immunity from arrest (i.e. of Diet members or foreign diplomats)/diplomatic immunity/parliamentary immunity/legislative immunity


kanji: 継続審査
kana: けいぞくしんさ
entry:
(n) carrying over a bill from one Diet session to the next, being deliberated by a committee in the interim


kanji: 会期不継続の原則
kana: かいきふけいぞくのげんそく
entry:
(n) principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next


kanji: 仮置き
kana: かりおき
entry:
(n,vs) preliminary loading of the (cargo) ship (in preparation for moving cargo around inside the ship)


kanji: 一国二制度
kana: いっこくにせいど
entry:
(n) "One country, two systems" (Chinese political ideology allowing for the communist mainland and capitalist areas such as Hong Kong)


kanji: 給え
kana: たまえ
entry:
(aux-v,uk,male) please (imperative form of an auxiliary verb, suffixed to the -masu stem of another verb)


kanji: ＱＲこーど
kana: きゅーあーるこーど
entry:
ＱＲコード [キューアールコード] /(n) quick response code (2-dimensional bar code commonly used by Japanese mobile phones to link to URLs)/QR code/


kanji: ＱＲこーど
kana: きゅーあーこーど
entry:
ＱＲコード [キューアーコード] /(n) quick response code (2-dimensional bar code commonly used by Japanese mobile phones to link to URLs)/QR code/


kanji: が聞いてあきれる
kana: がきいてあきれる
entry:
(exp,v1) who do you think you're kidding by saying (used to indicate incredulous dismissal of some claim)/What a laugh!


kanji: 外張り
kana: そとばり
entry:
(n) posting something to the exterior of a building, etc./something posted in such a place/fortifications outside a military encampment


kanji: 外張
kana: そとばり
entry:
(n,io) posting something to the exterior of a building, etc./something posted in such a place/fortifications outside a military encampment


kanji: 新成人
kana: しんせいじん
entry:
(n) new adults (i.e. in Japan, 20-year-olds having their coming-of-age ceremony within that year)/(P)


kanji: 式年遷宮
kana: しきねんせんぐう
entry:
(n) construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time


kanji: ぱーふぇくとりばてぃー教団
kana: ぱーふぇくとりばてぃーきょうだん
entry:
パーフェクトリバティー教団 [パーフェクトリバティーきょうだん] /(n) Church of Perfect Liberty (religious group founded in Japan in 1924)/


kanji: 幸福の科学
kana: こうふくのかがく
entry:
(n) Kofuku-no-Kagaku/The Institute for Research in Human Happiness (religion founded in Japan in 1986)


kanji: 教外別伝
kana: きょうげべつでん
entry:
(n) Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment/Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters/Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism)


kanji: 只管打坐
kana: しかんたざ
entry:
(n) shikantaza (zazen meditation in which one focuses on sitting without actively seeking enlightenment)


kanji: 苦集滅道
kana: くじゅうめつどう
entry:
(n) Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)


kanji: と言うと
kana: というと
entry:
(conj,uk) if one were to speak of ..., then certainly/if it were the case that ..., then certainly/if it were a ..., then certainly/phrase used to indicate the inevitability of what follows it (based on what precedes it)


kanji: 金目
kana: きんめ
entry:
(n,abbr) Edo-period unit of gold coinage/golden eyes (of a cat, etc.)/splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens)


kanji: 御勤め
kana: おつとめ
entry:
(n,arch,pol) one's business/reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha/bargain/discount/money paid to a prostitute or geisha


kanji: 連座制
kana: れんざせい
entry:
(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)


kanji: 拡大連座制
kana: かくだいれんざせい
entry:
(n) expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime


kanji: 大選挙区制
kana: だいせんきょくせい
entry:
(n) electoral system allowing for the election of multiple candidates from one district/multi-member constituent electoral system


kanji: 中選挙区制
kana: ちゅうせんきょくせい
entry:
(n) (Japanese) electoral system allowing for the election of from 3 to 5 candidates from one district


kanji: 非拘束名簿式比例代表制
kana: ひこうそくめいぼしきひれいだいひょうせい
entry:
(n) proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast, seats are distributed amongst parties by proportion of vote obtained, and candidates are elected in descending order of number of votes obtained


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


kanji: 余儀なくされる
kana: よぎなくされる
entry:
(exp) to be forced to do or experience something (against one's will)/to be forced to do something because one has no other choice


kana: あっての
entry:
(adj-f) which can exist solely due to the presence of/whose existence is determined entirely by/which owes everything to/(P)


kana: とする
entry:
(exp,vs-i) (after volitional form of verb) to try to (verb)/(after dictionary form) to (decide to) do/to take as/to treat as/to use for/to suppose that (such) is the case


kanji: 白点病
kana: はくてんびょう
entry:
(n) ich (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis) infection/white spot (protozoan infection of freshwater fish)


kanji: 重複立候補
kana: じゅうふくりっこうほ
entry:
(n) simultaneously running for a seat in a single-member constituency and a seat in a proportionally representated constituency


kanji: 復活当選
kana: ふっかつとうせん
entry:
(n,vs) failing to win an electoral seat in a single-member constituency, but winning a seat in a proportionally represented constituency


kanji: 対策路線
kana: たいさくろせん
entry:
(n) (railway, bus, highway) route designed or designated to meet a specific problem/countermeasure program (policy)


kanji: 惜敗率
kana: せきはいりつ
entry:
(n) ratio of the margin of loss of an electoral candidate in a single-constituent district (used to break ties when determining the representative of a proportionally represented district)


kanji: 族議員
kana: ぞくぎいん
entry:
(n) influential members of parliament acting for the benefit of the private industries to which they are connected


kanji: 小泉ちるどれん
kana: こいずみちるどれん
entry:
小泉チルドレン [こいずみチルドレン] /(n,col) any of the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election/


kanji: 然う
kana: そう
entry:
(adv,uk,int) in that way (concerning the actions of the listener or concerning the ideas expressed or understood by the listener; with a neg. sentence, implies that something isn't as much as one might think)/(P)


kanji: 南京事件
kana: なんきんじけん
entry:
(n) Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)/Rape of Nanking (1937)/Nanking Massacre


kanji: と言うところ
kana: というところ
entry:
(exp,uk) a state called/a position described as/can sum up as/approximates to/places known as/that called/the place named


kana: ぐう
entry:
(n,adv) rock (in rock, paper, scissors)/sound made through constricted throat/sound made in suffering or under adversity


kana: ひすてりしす
entry:
ヒステリシス /(n) hysteresis (behaviour where the state of something depends on its past, e.g. magnetic hysteresis, etc.)/


kanji: 間に合っている
kana: まにあっている
entry:
(exp) to already have enough (phrase often used in turning down an offer)/to already have what one needs/to be on time


kanji: 道形に
kana: みちなりに
entry:
(adv) along the road (e.g. following its curves without turning off at any intersection)/along the street


kanji: 無き
kana: なき
entry:
(adj-f,suf,uk) -less (often used after one word to modify another, e.g. soulless body)/lacking/non-existing


kanji: 百聞は一見にしかず
kana: ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず
entry:
(exp) seeing is believing/one eye-witness is better than many hearsays/a picture is worth a thousand words


kanji: 大銀杏
kana: おおいちょう
entry:
大銀杏 [おおイチョウ] /(n) large ginkgo tree/ginkgo-leaf top-knot worn by makuuchi and juryo division sumo wrestlers/


kanji: 大いちょう
kana: おおいちょう
entry:
大イチョウ [おおいちょう] /(n) large ginkgo tree/ginkgo-leaf top-knot worn by makuuchi and juryo division sumo wrestlers/


kanji: 大いちょう
kana: おおいちょう
entry:
大イチョウ [おおイチョウ] /(n) large ginkgo tree/ginkgo-leaf top-knot worn by makuuchi and juryo division sumo wrestlers/


kanji: 噛ませる
kana: かませる
entry:
(v1,uk) to force something into someone's mouth (i.e. a gag)/to wedge something into a space, filling it/to feed someone (something)


kana: ん
entry:
(int,abbr) used to express approval, especially in slurred or unclear speech (abbr. of interjection "un")/negative verb ending used in informal speech (abbr. of negative verb ending "nu")


kanji: 腕を返す
kana: かいなをかえす
entry:
(exp) (sumo) placing one's arms under those of the opponent, and lifting them up, in order to prevent an overhand grip on one's mawashi


kanji: 夜目遠目笠の内
kana: よめとおめかさのうち
entry:
(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


kanji: 前捌き
kana: まえさばき
entry:
(n) (sumo) battling to knock away the hands of one's opponent, in order to achieve an advantageous position


kanji: 帰省らっしゅ
kana: きせいらっしゅ
entry:
帰省ラッシュ [きせいラッシュ] /(n) holiday traffic congestion caused by people travelling to their hometowns en masse/


kanji: 二階から目薬
kana: にかいからめぐすり
entry:
(exp) something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this)


kanji: 横並び
kana: よこならび
entry:
(n,vs) going along with something/following the crowd/treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner


kanji: 新人類
kana: しんじんるい
entry:
(n) new breed of humans (used to refer to the younger generation, who have different ideals and sensibilities)


kanji: 小父
kana: おじ
entry:
(n) (used with suffix -san or -sama) endearing term for unrelated older man/(with suffix -san) term used by a child to address unrelated adult male


kanji: 小母
kana: おば
entry:
(n,uk) (used with suffix -san or -sama) endearing term for unrelated older woman/(with suffix -san) term used by a child to address unrelated adult female


kanji: 衣食足りて礼節を知る
kana: いしょくたりてれいせつをしる
entry:
(exp) the poor can't afford manners/only when basic needs for living are met can people spare the effort to be polite


kanji: 青は藍より出でて藍より青し
kana: あおはあいよりいでてあいよりあおし
entry:
(exp) Although blue dye comes from the indigo plant, it is bluer than indigo/The student has overcome the master (from whom he has learned)


kanji: 秋の扇
kana: あきのおうぎ
entry:
(exp) a woman who has lost a man's affection or interest (as does a fan when summer turns to autumn)


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


kanji: ぐれしゃむの法則
kana: ぐれしゃむのほうそく
entry:
グレシャムの法則 [グレシャムのほうそく] /(n) Gresham's Law ("when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives good money out of circulation")/


kanji: 雨垂れ石を穿つ
kana: あまだれいしをうがつ
entry:
(exp) slow but steady wins the race/constant effort will result in success (lit: constant dripping wears away a stone)


kanji: 有理化
kana: ゆうりか
entry:
(n,vs) rationalization (modifying part of an irrational expression, esp. denominators, to exclude roots or irrational numbers)


kanji: 鼬の最後っ屁
kana: いたちのさいごっぺ
entry:
(exp,obsc) final emergency measure (lit: the final fart of a weasel)/final defence when one is cornered (defense)


kanji: 獲麟
kana: かくりん
entry:
(n,arch) the end of things (esp. used for one's last writings)/one's dying hour (esp. used for the death of Confucius)


kanji: 鬼に金棒
kana: おににかなぼう
entry:
(exp) making a strong person even stronger (like giving an metal rod to an ogre)/as strong as can be


kanji: 提灯に釣り鐘
kana: ちょうちんにつりがね
entry:
(exp,obsc) paper lanterns and temple bells (esp. as an example of two things looking similar on the outside, but of a completely different nature)/you can't judge a book by its cover


kanji: 風が吹けば桶屋が儲かる
kana: かぜがふけばおけやがもうかる
entry:
(exp) any event can bring about an effect in an unexpected way/lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper


kanji: 八寸
kana: はっすん
entry:
(n) distance of eight sun (approx. 24 cm)/small serving dish/var. of thick, traditional Japanese paper


kanji: ちゃんこ番
kana: ちゃんこばん
entry:
(n) (sumo) person in charge of preparing food for rikishi (usually performed by low-ranking rikishi)


kanji: 事情変更の原則
kana: じじょうへんこうのげんそく
entry:
(n) clausula rebus sic stantibus (legal principle that agreements become non-binding if there is a major, unforeseeable change of circumstances)


kanji: 元
kana: げん
entry:
(n) unknown (e.g. in an equation)/element (of a set)/yuan (monetary unit of China)/Yuan dynasty (China)


kanji: 日西
kana: にっせい
entry:
(n) Japanese-Spanish (gen. for translations and dictionaries)/Japan-Spain (e.g. intercountry trade and relations)


kanji: 新平民
kana: しんへいみん
entry:
(n,arch,vulg) "new commoners" (name given to the lowest rank of the Japanese caste system after its abolition)


kana: どん
entry:
(pref,n,adv-to) very/totally/polite suffix used after a person's name (often of an apprentice; used much more broadly in southern Kyushu)/bang (e.g. of large drum, signal pistol, etc.)


kanji: 編製
kana: へんせい
entry:
(n,vs) establishing (a new family register)/compiling (an electoral register, a list of school-age children, etc.)


kanji: ど演歌
kana: どえんか
entry:
ど演歌 [ドえんか] /(n) quintessential enka/enka with age-old lyrical themes set to a haunting traditional-style melody/


kanji: ど演歌
kana: どえんか
entry:
ド演歌 [どえんか] /(n) quintessential enka/enka with age-old lyrical themes set to a haunting traditional-style melody/


kanji: ど演歌
kana: どえんか
entry:
ド演歌 [ドえんか] /(n) quintessential enka/enka with age-old lyrical themes set to a haunting traditional-style melody/


kanji: 住民基本台帳かーど
kana: じゅうみんきほんだいちょうかーど
entry:
住民基本台帳カード [じゅうみんきほんだいちょうカード] /(n) basic resident register card/citizen identification card/Juki card/


kanji: 生剥
kana: なまはげ
entry:
(n) folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as namahage on New Year's Eve and frighten children)


kana: あやかし
entry:
(n) ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck/something strange or suspicious/idiot/fool/Noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters


kanji: 検討中
kana: けんとうちゅう
entry:
(n) under investigation/under consideration/under review/pending (decision, etc.)/awaiting verification


kanji: 前振り
kana: まえふり
entry:
(n,abbr) preface/introduction/lead in (e.g. to a running joke, asking a question)/lead up/payment in advance (by bank transfer)


kanji: 商いは牛のよだれ
kana: あきないはうしのよだれ
entry:
(exp,obsc) one should not rush to make a profit/business is best run when sales flow like a cow's drool: long and thin


kanji: 秋の鹿は笛に寄る
kana: あきのしかはふえによる
entry:
(exp,obsc) people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season)/it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of


kanji: 熟年離婚
kana: じゅくねんりこん
entry:
(n,col) divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (often brought on by retirement of the husband)


kanji: 定年離婚
kana: ていねんりこん
entry:
(n,col) divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband)


kanji: さんふらんしすこ講和条約
kana: さんふらんしすここうわじょうやく
entry:
サンフランシスコ講和条約 [サンフランシスコこうわじょうやく] /(n) Treaty of San Francisco/Treaty of Peace with Japan (Sept. 8, 1951)/


kanji: 基本料金
kana: きほんりょうきん
entry:
(n) basic rate (i.e. excluding optional service fees, usage charges, etc.)/basic charge/base cost/base price/(P)


kana: びじねすせんたー
entry:
ビジネスセンター /(n) business center of a city (centre)/business center of a hotel (providing fax &amp; copy services, etc.)/


kanji: ふれみんぐの法則
kana: ふれみんぐのほうそく
entry:
フレミングの法則 [フレミングのほうそく] /(n) Fleming's rules (Fleming's left-hand rule &amp; Fleming's right-hand rule)/


kanji: 潜脱
kana: せんだつ
entry:
(n,vs) circumvention of the law/evasion of the law (by using legal means to obtain a result normally only obtainable by illegal ones)


kanji: 文
kana: もん
entry:
(n) one-thousandth of a kan (obsolete unit of currency)/2.4 cm (traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes)


kanji: 注ぐ
kana: つぐ
entry:
(v5g,vt,uk) (usu. written as kana when referring to a solid) to pour (into a vessel)/to fill/to dish out food or drink/(P)


kanji: 食む
kana: はむ
entry:
(v5m,uk,arch) to eat (fodder, grass, etc.)/to receive (a salary)/to receive a stipend from one's lord


kanji: 〇〇
kana: まるまる
entry:
(n) symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)


kanji: な行変格活用
kana: なぎょうへんかくかつよう
entry:
ナ行変格活用 [ナぎょうへんかくかつよう] /(n) irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of verbs ending in "nu" (in written Japanese)/


kanji: ら行変格活用
kana: らぎょうへんかくかつよう
entry:
ラ行変格活用 [ラぎょうへんかくかつよう] /(n) irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of a limited number of verbs ending in "ru" (in written Japanese)/


kanji: 上二段活用
kana: かみにだんかつよう
entry:
(n) conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "i" or "u" for every conjugation)


kanji: 下二段活用
kana: しもにだんかつよう
entry:
(n) conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "e" or "u" for every conjugation)


kanji: ら変
kana: らへん
entry:
ラ変 [ラへん] /(n,abbr) irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of a limited number of verbs ending in "ru" (in written Japanese)/


kanji: な変
kana: なへん
entry:
ナ変 [ナへん] /(n,abbr) irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of verbs ending in "nu" (in written Japanese)/


kanji: 好き
kana: ずき
entry:
(adj-na,adj-no,suf) -phil/-phile/enthusiast (for)/love (of)/being attractive (to)/to tend to be liked (by)


kana: ろんぐほーむるーむ
entry:
ロングホームルーム /(n) long homeroom/occasional or periodic extra long registration class or assembly in a school (e.g. for activities not related to class work)/


kanji: 今昔物語
kana: こんじゃくものがたり
entry:
(n,abbr) Konjaku Monogatarishuu (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period)


kanji: 粗末にする
kana: そまつにする
entry:
(exp,vs-i) to waste/to treat shabbily/to treat frivolously/to handle roughly/to treat without respect


kanji: 花金
kana: はなきん
entry:
(n) thank God it's Friday (lit: flowery Friday, when young men et al. stay out late)/TGIF/going out on Friday night


kanji: 花金
kana: はなきん
entry:
花金 [ハナきん] /(n) thank God it's Friday (lit: flowery Friday, when young men et al. stay out late)/TGIF/going out on Friday night/


kanji: 花金
kana: はなきん
entry:
花金 [はなキン] /(n) thank God it's Friday (lit: flowery Friday, when young men et al. stay out late)/TGIF/going out on Friday night/


kanji: はな金
kana: はなきん
entry:
ハナ金 [はなきん] /(n) thank God it's Friday (lit: flowery Friday, when young men et al. stay out late)/TGIF/going out on Friday night/


kanji: はな金
kana: はなきん
entry:
ハナ金 [ハナきん] /(n) thank God it's Friday (lit: flowery Friday, when young men et al. stay out late)/TGIF/going out on Friday night/


kanji: はな金
kana: はなきん
entry:
ハナ金 [はなキン] /(n) thank God it's Friday (lit: flowery Friday, when young men et al. stay out late)/TGIF/going out on Friday night/


kanji: 花きん
kana: はなきん
entry:
花キン [はなきん] /(n) thank God it's Friday (lit: flowery Friday, when young men et al. stay out late)/TGIF/going out on Friday night/


kanji: 花きん
kana: はなきん
entry:
花キン [ハナきん] /(n) thank God it's Friday (lit: flowery Friday, when young men et al. stay out late)/TGIF/going out on Friday night/


kanji: 花きん
kana: はなきん
entry:
花キン [はなキン] /(n) thank God it's Friday (lit: flowery Friday, when young men et al. stay out late)/TGIF/going out on Friday night/


kanji: 過
kana: か
entry:
(pref) surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words)/excess-/over-/per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)


kanji: 使い魔
kana: つかいま
entry:
(n) familiar (spirit or otherwise magical creature which aids a magician or sorcerer)/familiar spirit


kanji: 六国史
kana: りっこくし
entry:
(n) Rikkokushi (the six ancient Japanese historical collections compiled between the Nara and Heian periods)


kanji: 日本的経営
kana: にほんてきけいえい
entry:
(n) Japanese-style business management/adoption of Japanese business practices (such as lifelong employment, seniority-based promotions, etc.)


kanji: ろーま字綴り
kana: ろーまじつづり
entry:
ローマ字綴り [ローマじつづり] /(n) romanization (representation of foreign words using the Roman alphabet)/romanized spelling/


kanji: ろーま字つづり
kana: ろーまじつづり
entry:
ローマ字つづり [ローマじつづり] /(n) romanization (representation of foreign words using the Roman alphabet)/romanized spelling/


kanji: 訓仮名
kana: くんがな
entry:
(n,obsc) (prior to the advent of kana) kanji used to represent readings of words, selected for their kun-yomi, regardless of meaning


kanji: 音仮名
kana: おんがな
entry:
(n,obsc) (prior to the advent of kana) kanji used to represent readings of words, selected for their on-yomi, regardless of meaning


kanji: 開口音
kana: かいこうおん
entry:
(n) (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel/(of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds


kanji: 合口音
kana: ごうこうおん
entry:
(n) (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel/(of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds


kanji: 掛け
kana: がけ
entry:
(n-suf,adj-no) (after an article of clothing) clad/(after a masu stem) in the midst of/(after a number in the ichi, ni counting system) tenths/(after a number in the hitotsu, futatsu counting system) times (i.e. multiplied by)


kanji: 四公六民
kana: しこうろくみん
entry:
(n,arch) land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%


kanji: 五公五民
kana: ごこうごみん
entry:
(n,arch) land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half


kanji: 失意泰然
kana: しついたいぜん
entry:
(adj-t,adv-to,arch) keeping calm and collected at times of disappoinment/maintaining a serene state of mind in adversity


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


kanji: 後出し
kana: あとだし
entry:
(n) waiting to see one's opponent's move before doing anything (e.g. as an disallowed act in rock-paper-scissors)


kanji: 周産期
kana: しゅうさんき
entry:
(n,adj-no) (similar to) perinatal/period from around the 28th week of pregnancy to a week after the baby is born


kanji: く活用
kana: くかつよう
entry:
ク活用 [クかつよう] /(n) classical form of i-adjective inflection (easily recognized by its attributive form ending in "ki" and predicative form ending in "shi")/


kanji: かり活用
kana: かりかつよう
entry:
カリ活用 [カリかつよう] /(n) classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")/


kanji: 藪の中
kana: やぶのなか
entry:
(exp) inability to discern the truth due to conflicting testimony (name derived the Akutagawa Ryuunosuke story "In A Grove")


kanji: 止まない
kana: やまない
entry:
(exp,aux-adj,uk) (after the -te form of a verb) always/forever/very/greatly (esp. of hopes and desires)


kanji: しく活用
kana: しくかつよう
entry:
シク活用 [シクかつよう] /(n) classical form of i-adjective inflection (easily recognized by its attributive form ending in "shiki" and predicative form ending in "shi")/


kanji: たり活用
kana: たりかつよう
entry:
タリ活用 [タリかつよう] /(n) classical form of na-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the particle "to" with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")/


kanji: なり活用
kana: なりかつよう
entry:
ナリ活用 [ナリかつよう] /(n) classical form of na-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the particle "ni" with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")/


kanji: 議論になる
kana: ぎろんになる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to get into an argument/to come to discuss/to be controversial (usu. as an adjectival phrase)/to be contentious


kanji: 塗り固める
kana: ぬりかためる
entry:
(v1) to coat a surface with something that adheres strongly when hardened (i.e. grout, plaster, lacquer)


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


kanji: 結果的
kana: けっかてき
entry:
(adj-na) concerning the result (as opposed to the means used to achieve this result or the original goal)


kanji: 聖柄
kana: ひじりづか
entry:
(n,arch) sword hilt shaped similar to the handle of a vajra/plain, wooden sword hilt (as opposed to those wrapped in sharkskin)


kanji: 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
kana: ていしゅのすきなあかえぼし
entry:
(exp,arch) Family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black


kanji: 如露如電
kana: にょろにょでん
entry:
(n,obsc) existence (as we percieve it) is as mutable and incorporeal as is the morning dew or a flash of lightning


kanji: 五夜
kana: ごや
entry:
(n,arch) division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods/the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)


kanji: 相通ずる
kana: あいつうずる
entry:
(vz) to be in common/to have in common/to be in mutually understood/to be mutually connected/to have a link


kanji: 然れば
kana: しかれば
entry:
(conj,uk,arch,int) that being the case/therefore/so/well then, moving on to another topic.../(expressing surprise) ...on earth?/that's right


kanji: まんが喫茶
kana: まんがきっさ
entry:
マンガ喫茶 [マンガきっさ] /(n,abbr) coffee shop or cafe where one can read manga, often has Internet facilities/


kanji: まんが喫茶
kana: まんがきっさ
entry:
マンガ喫茶 [まんがきっさ] /(n,abbr) coffee shop or cafe where one can read manga, often has Internet facilities/


kanji: 漫画喫茶
kana: まんがきっさ
entry:
漫画喫茶 [マンガきっさ] /(n,abbr) coffee shop or cafe where one can read manga, often has Internet facilities/


kana: あるある
entry:
(exp) Oh yeah/Of course it is so/Cheer up, that's average/It happens/It's possible/Don't worry, it happens


kanji: 目くらまし
kana: めくらまし
entry:
(n) smoke screen/dazzler/distraction/camouflage/deceptive means/magic/witchcraft/sleight of hand/shell game


kanji: 山陰地方
kana: さんいんちほう
entry:
(n) San-in region of western Honshu (inc. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures)


kanji: 山陽地方
kana: さんようちほう
entry:
(n) San-you region of western Honshu (inc. Okayama, Hiroshima, southern Yamaguchi and sometimes western Hyogo prefectures)


kanji: 中部地方
kana: ちゅうぶちほう
entry:
(n) Chubu region (inc. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)


kanji: 九州地方
kana: きゅうしゅうちほう
entry:
(n) Kyushu region (inc. Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures)


kana: ざっくり
entry:
(adv,vs) roughly/approximately/loosely/cutting or breaking apart with vigour/deeply (cut or split)/rough (woollens, etc., as adjectival phrase with (to)shita)/sound of treading on pebbles


kanji: 準体言
kana: じゅんたいげん
entry:
(n) secondary substantive (inflectable word or phrase that acts as an uninflectable within a sentence)


kanji: 話題になる
kana: わだいになる
entry:
(exp) 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


kanji: 道府県
kana: どうふけん
entry:
(n) Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures (all administrative divisions of Japan except Tokyo-to)


kanji: 橋
kana: きょう
entry:
(n,adj-no) pons (pontes)/pons Varolii/pontine/part of the brain stem (links the medulla oblongata and cerebellum with the midbrain)


kanji: 愛きょうを振りまく
kana: あいきょうをふりまく
entry:
(exp) to make oneself pleasant to everybody/to smile at everybody/to try to please everybody/to make things pleasant


kanji: 屯する
kana: たむろする
entry:
(vs-s,vi,uk) to gather in large numbers (of people)/to hang out (as a large group)/to assemble (as a military unit or posse)/to be quartered (in a particular location)


kana: げっ
entry:
ゲッ /(int) exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)/


kana: げっ
entry:
(int) exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)


kana: げ
entry:
ゲ /(int) exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)/


kanji: ｗｅｂ拍手
kana: うぇぶはくしゅ
entry:
ｗｅｂ拍手 [ウェブはくしゅ] /(n) system for showing appreciation to the author of a web-site (lit: web-applause)/virtual applause/


kanji: うぇぶ拍手
kana: うぇぶはくしゅ
entry:
ウェブ拍手 [ウェブはくしゅ] /(n) system for showing appreciation to the author of a web-site (lit: web-applause)/virtual applause/


kanji: 達て
kana: たって
entry:
(adv,adj-no,uk,ateji) strongly hoping or requesting (of something that is difficult to be brought to fruition)


kanji: 百ます計算
kana: ひゃくますけいさん
entry:
百マス計算 [ひゃくマスけいさん] /(n) method of learning through repetition conceived by Kageyama Hideo, which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers (lit: hundred square calculations)/


kanji: 百ます計算
kana: ひゃくますけいさん
entry:
百マス計算 [ひゃくますけいさん] /(n) method of learning through repetition conceived by Kageyama Hideo, which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers (lit: hundred square calculations)/


kanji: 百ます計算
kana: ひゃくますけいさん
entry:
百ます計算 [ひゃくマスけいさん] /(n) method of learning through repetition conceived by Kageyama Hideo, which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers (lit: hundred square calculations)/


kanji: 百ます計算
kana: ひゃくますけいさん
entry:
(n) method of learning through repetition conceived by Kageyama Hideo, which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers (lit: hundred square calculations)


kanji: 渡る世間に鬼はない
kana: わたるせけんにおにはない
entry:
(exp,obsc) there are no devils in this world/all humans are good at heart (even though they may appear frightening)


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


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


kanji: 山高きが故に貴からず
kana: やまたかきがゆえにたっとからず
entry:
(exp,arch) never judge a book by its cover (lit: a mountain is not to be honoured just because it is high)


kanji: 柳の下にいつも泥鰌はおらぬ
kana: やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはおらぬ
entry:
(exp,obsc) just because a method works once doesn't mean it will work every time (lit: there aren't always loach under the willow tree)


kanji: 柳に雪折れなし
kana: やなぎにゆきおれなし
entry:
(exp,obsc) the soft may prove more durable than the hard (lit: willow trees never break under the weight of snow)


kanji: 焼け野の雉夜の鶴
kana: やけののきぎすよるのつる
entry:
(exp,obsc) parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night)


kanji: 安物買いの銭失い
kana: やすものがいのぜにうしない
entry:
(exp) you get what you pay for/buying cheap goods is a waste of money (because the quality is always so poor)


kanji: 焼け石に水
kana: やけいしにみず
entry:
(exp) something bound to fail due to inadequate effort, assistance, etc. (lit: like trying to cool a hot stone with a couple of drops of water)


kanji: 桃栗三年柿八年
kana: ももくりさんねんかきはちねん
entry:
(exp) it often takes time to bear the fruit of one's actions (lit: planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years to bear fruit, plums take eight)


kanji: 目は口ほどに物を言う
kana: めはくちほどにものをいう
entry:
(exp) 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


kanji: 目の上のこぶ
kana: めのうえのこぶ
entry:
(exp) a thorn in one's side/a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.)/nuisance/something in the way


kanji: 目の上のたんこぶ
kana: めのうえのたんこぶ
entry:
(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


kana: にする
entry:
(exp,vs-i,vt) to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B/to make use of A for B/to transform A to B/to exchange A for B/to view A as B/to handle A as if it were B


kanji: 杜仲茶
kana: とちゅうちゃ
entry:
(n) Tochuu tea (high in minerals and reputed to be beneficial for weight loss and in cases of high blood pressure)


kanji: 孫子
kana: そんし
entry:
(n,hon) Sun Tzu (Chinese military strategist, 544?-496 BCE)/The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu, 512 BC)/Sun Bin Bing Fa (military text by Sun Bin)


kanji: 小
kana: こ
entry:
(pref) small/little/slight/slightly less than/just about/somewhat/somehow/minor (sometimes derogatory)/petty


kanji: に限って
kana: にかぎって
entry:
(exp) (particularly) when ... (often in phrases like "the bus just has to be on-time when we are late")/(only) for .../if we are restricting the discussion to.../(P)


kana: ぱすも
entry:
パスモ /(n) PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores)/


kana: すいか
entry:
スイカ /(n) Suica (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train pass in the greater Tokyo, Osaka and Sendai regions and also as electric money in some stores)/


kanji: おりご糖
kana: おりごとう
entry:
オリゴ糖 [オリゴとう] /(n) oligosaccharide (sugar polymer containing several but not many component simple sugars)/


kana: くーるびず
entry:
クールビズ /(n) COOL BIZ (Japanese government campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes, companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.)/


kana: うぉーむびず
entry:
ウォームビズ /(n) WARM BIZ (Japanese government campaign encouraging companies to set their heater thermostats to 20 degrees Celsius over the winter)/


kanji: 旅は道連れ世は情け
kana: たびはみちづれよはなさけ
entry:
(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


kanji: 最後の審判
kana: さいごのしんぱん
entry:
(n) Last Judgment (judgment of mankind to take place when the world ends, according to various religious traditions)


kanji: う音便
kana: うおんびん
entry:
ウ音便 [ウおんびん] /(n) euphonic change wherein some mora ('ku', 'gu', 'hi', 'bi' and 'mi') are pronounced 'u'/


kanji: 黒い雨
kana: くろいあめ
entry:
(n) heavily polluted, radioactive rain sometimes following an atmospheric nuclear explosion (esp. that of Hiroshima)


kana: まいゆ
entry:
(adj-f) delicious/appetizing/appetising/skillful/clever/expert/wise/successful/fortunate/splendid/promising


kanji: 突兀
kana: とっこつ
entry:
(adj-t,adv-to) lofty/soaring/towering/precipitous/high and steep/sharply sticking out/jutting upward


kanji: お邪魔
kana: おじゃま
entry:
(n,vs,pol) hindrance/intrusion (suru and itasu verb forms are used as set phrases said prior to entering or leaving someone's home)


kana: わんこいん
entry:
ワンコイン /(n,n-pref,adj-no) one-coin (i.e. able to be paid for with only one coin, esp. a 500-yen or 100-yen coin)/


kanji: 親の顔が見たい
kana: おやのかおがみたい
entry:
(exp) expresses shock at misbehaviour of a youngster/what must his parents be like?/lit: I'd like to see his parents' faces


kana: けーぷぺんぎん
entry:
ケープペンギン /(n) Cape penguin/African penguin/blackfooted penguin/jackass penguin (Spheniscus demersus)/


kana: いんてりじぇんとでざいん
entry:
インテリジェントデザイン /(n) intelligent design (theory that life or the universe must have been designed by an intelligent being)/


kanji: Ｖさいん
kana: ぶいさいん
entry:
Ｖサイン [ブイサイン] /(n) V-sign (hand gesture similar to the peace sign, representing victory or happiness)/


kanji: まくすうぇるの方程式
kana: まくすうぇるのほうていしき
entry:
マクスウェルの方程式 [マクスウェルのほうていしき] /(n) Maxwell's equations (summarizing the classical properties of the electromagnetic field)/


kanji: ぽつだむ宣言
kana: ぽつだむせんげん
entry:
ポツダム宣言 [ポツダムせんげん] /(n) Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945 statement establishing the terms of a Japanese surrender)/


kanji: ぽつだむ会談
kana: ぽつだむかいだん
entry:
ポツダム会談 [ポツダムかいだん] /(n) Potsdam Conference (Jul.-Aug., 1945 conference regarding the postwar occupation of Germany)/


kanji: ぽつだむ命令
kana: ぽつだむめいれい
entry:
ポツダム命令 [ポツダムめいれい] /(n) Potsdam Orders (commands made after the Japanese surrender based on the demands of the Potsdam Declaration)/


kanji: 婚姻要件具備証明書
kana: こんいんようけんぐびしょうめいしょ
entry:
(n) certificate of legal capacity to contract marriage/certification of one's legal capacity to be married


kanji: 道
kana: どう
entry:
(n,abbr) road/way/Buddhist teachings/Taoism/modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)/historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.)


kanji: 女子挺身隊
kana: じょしていしんたい
entry:
(n) women's volunteer corps (groups of young female workers organized on Japanese territory during WWII, sometimes mistakenly associated with comfort women)


kana: いいとこ
entry:
(n,adj-f,n-adv) good thing/strong point/good family/prestigious school/the right moment/utter/extreme/at (the) best/at most


kanji: いいとこ取り
kana: いいとこどり
entry:
(n,vs) focusing on only the good points or strong points/incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks)/picking the best of both (everything)/cherrypicking (e.g. information)


kanji: すり合わせ
kana: すりあわせ
entry:
(n) precision surface finishing/lapping/bouncing of ideas (opinions, etc.) off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole


kanji: 梯子を外される
kana: はしごをはずされる
entry:
(exp) to be lonely at the top/to be left high and dry by one's friends (lit: to have the ladder pulled out from under one)


kanji: 一見さん
kana: いちげんさん
entry:
(n) first-time customer (of an inn or a restaurant)/chance customer/customer without an introduction from a regular customer


kanji: 気が回る
kana: きがまわる
entry:
(exp) to be attentive to small details/to be attentive to others (or others' concerns)/to have one's mind turn groundlessly to something negative


kana: えんがちょ
entry:
(n,col,vs) crossed fingers and word said to call someone to be avoided as 'dirty' (kids' talk)/to cross one's fingers (to ward off 'dirt')


kana: えんがちょ
entry:
エンガチョ /(n,col,vs) crossed fingers and word said to call someone to be avoided as 'dirty' (kids' talk)/to cross one's fingers (to ward off 'dirt')/


kanji: えんがちょ切った
kana: えんがちょきった
entry:
(exp) phrase used (usu. with accompanying crossed fingers gesture) to ward off catching 'dirtiness' from another child (kids' talk)


kanji: 再せっとあっぷ
kana: さいせっとあっぷ
entry:
再セットアップ [さいセットアップ] /(n) restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD)/


kanji: 渋皮がむける
kana: しぶかわがむける
entry:
(v1,vi) (a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking/to become experienced in worldly affairs


kana: すぱむ
entry:
スパム /(n) Spam (trademarked luncheon meat, made mostly from ham)/spam (unsolicited email messages)/(P)/


kanji: わんくりっく詐欺
kana: わんくりっくさぎ
entry:
ワンクリック詐欺 [ワンクリックさぎ] /(n) one-click fraud (online fraud and extortion technique often used by spammers)/


kanji: ＦＴＴｘ
kana: えふてぃーてぃーえっくす
entry:
ＦＴＴｘ [エフティーティーエックス] /(n) fiber to the x (generic term for any network architecture that uses optical fiber) (fibre)/FTTx/


kanji: ＩＰ電話
kana: あいぴーでんわ
entry:
ＩＰ電話 [アイピーでんわ] /(n) voice over IP (VoIP)/Internet protocol telephony/IP telephony/Internet telephony/


kanji: 枯れ木も山の賑わい
kana: かれきもやまのにぎわい
entry:
(exp) (similar to the saying) half a loaf is better than none (lit: even a dead tree adds to the interest of a mountain)


kanji: 形容矛盾
kana: けいようむじゅん
entry:
(n) contradictio in adjecto (contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies, i.e. "wooden iron", "hot ice", etc.)


kanji: 移り箸
kana: うつりばし
entry:
(n) using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette)


kanji: 探り箸
kana: さぐりばし
entry:
(n) using one's chopsticks to find a food one likes by rummaging in one's dish, pot, etc. (a breach of etiquette)


kanji: せせり箸
kana: せせりばし
entry:
(n) poking one's food around using one's chopsticks/playing with one's food with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)


kanji: 挵り箸
kana: せせりばし
entry:
(n,oK) poking one's food around using one's chopsticks/playing with one's food with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)


kanji: 惑い箸
kana: まどいばし
entry:
(n) hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette)


kanji: 空箸
kana: そらばし
entry:
(n) touching a food with one's chopsticks, then removing them without taking it (a breach of etiquette)


kanji: 叩き箸
kana: たたきばし
entry:
(n) ringing one's chopsticks against a dish (in order to request seconds, etc.) (a breach of etiquette)


kanji: まい箸
kana: まいばし
entry:
マイ箸 [マイばし] /(n) washable chopsticks carried in a case (to be used in place of disposable chopsticks)/


kanji: まい箸
kana: まいはし
entry:
マイ箸 [マイはし] /(n) washable chopsticks carried in a case (to be used in place of disposable chopsticks)/


kanji: 集合財
kana: しゅうごうざい
entry:
(n) collective goods (i.e, goods or services such as parks, highways, etc. which could be supplied privately, but are usually provided by the government)


kana: ちん
entry:
(n-suf) intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)


kanji: 原綴り
kana: もとつづり
entry:
(n) original spelling or kana usage/spelling in original language (for words transliterated into another language or script)


kanji: 泥棒猫
kana: どろぼうねこ
entry:
(n) a cat that enters someone's house (other than its owner's) to steal food/someone who secretly does bad things (i.e. an adulterer)


kanji: 兵馬俑
kana: へいばよう
entry:
(n) terracotta army (clay figurines found near the mausoleum of the first Qin emperor in China)/terracotta warriors and horses


kana: ぷりんきぴあ
entry:
プリンキピア /(n) Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (physical science treatise by Sir Isaac Newton, 1687)/


kanji: にゅーとん環
kana: にゅーとんかん
entry:
ニュートン環 [ニュートンかん] /(n) Newton's rings (interference pattern seen when a convex lens is placed on another surface)/


kanji: にゅーとん式望遠鏡
kana: にゅーとんしきぼうえんきょう
entry:
ニュートン式望遠鏡 [ニュートンしきぼうえんきょう] /(n) Newtonian telescope (having a secondary mirror at 45 degrees, reflecting light into the eyepiece)/


kanji: ぱぐうぉっしゅ会議
kana: ぱぐうぉっしゅかいぎ
entry:
パグウォッシュ会議 [パグウォッシュかいぎ] /(n) Pugwash conferences (series of international conferences promoting the peaceful application of science)/


kanji: 四色定理
kana: ししょくていり
entry:
(n) four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)


kanji: 蚊とんぼ
kana: かとんぼ
entry:
蚊トンボ [かトンボ] /(n,derog) crane fly/daddy longlegs (insect of family Tipulidae)/a tall, gangly person/string bean/


kanji: 蚊とんぼ
kana: かとんぼ
entry:
蚊トンボ [かとんぼ] /(n,derog) crane fly/daddy longlegs (insect of family Tipulidae)/a tall, gangly person/string bean/


kanji: 蚊蜻蛉
kana: かとんぼ
entry:
蚊蜻蛉 [かトンボ] /(n,derog) crane fly/daddy longlegs (insect of family Tipulidae)/a tall, gangly person/string bean/


kana: すきんへっど
entry:
スキンヘッド /(n) shaved head (from skinhead)/person with a shaved head/skinhead (shaved-headed member of a subculture often associated with Neo-nazism)/


kanji: その日暮らし
kana: そのひぐらし
entry:
(n) financially scraping by/meagre existence (meager)/hand to mouth existence/living one's life without plan/living life day-by-day/taking life one day at a time


kanji: 足長おじさん
kana: あしながおじさん
entry:
(n) anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidents (from Daddy-Long-Legs, a 1912 novel by Jean Webster)/harvestman


kanji: 番茶も出花
kana: ばんちゃもでばな
entry:
(exp) even a homely girl looks beautiful at the peak of her youth (lit: even coarse tea tastes good when freshly-brewed)


kanji: 鬼も十八番茶も出花
kana: おにもじゅうはちばんちゃもでばな
entry:
(exp) just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth


kanji: じぇのさいど条約
kana: じぇのさいどじょうやく
entry:
ジェノサイド条約 [ジェノサイドじょうやく] /(n) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations, 1948)/


kanji: 漫ろ
kana: そぞろ
entry:
(n,adj-na,adv) distraction/restlessness/nervousness/restless/on edge (and unable to concentrate)/distracted/(of an emotional or psychological state) for some reason


kana: ぐりーんかーど
entry:
グリーンカード /(n) green card (United States Permanent Resident Card)/green card (international insurance certificate for United Kingdom motorists)/


kanji: 細巻き
kana: ほそまき
entry:
(n) rolling something thinly/something rolled thinly (i.e. a cigarette, a thin roll of makizushi, etc.)


kana: まぐねっとすくーる
entry:
マグネットスクール /(n) magnet school (public school offering special instruction in order to attract a more diverse student body)/


kanji: さぶぷらいむ融資
kana: さぶぷらいむゆうし
entry:
サブプライム融資 [サブプライムゆうし] /(n) subprime lending in housing mortage market/housing loans to low-income, high-risk consumers/


kana: ねいりすと
entry:
ネイリスト /(n) nailist/someone whose occupation is to cut any type of nail, apply artificial nails (or "nail art") and care for nails/


kana: すぱにっしゅふらい
entry:
スパニッシュフライ /(n) Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria)/Spanish fly (crushed dried Spanish flies sometimes used as an aphrodisiac)/cantharides/


kana: すからべ
entry:
スカラベ /(n) scarab (Egyptian gemstone)/scarabeid (any of a group of beetles including the scarab beetle, Scarabeus sacer)/


kanji: 花潜
kana: はなむぐり
entry:
(n,uk) flower chafer (any flower beetle of tribe Cetoniini)/Eucetonia pilifera (flower chafer species of tribe Cetoniini)


kanji: 花潜
kana: はなむぐり
entry:
花潜 [ハナムグリ] /(n,uk) flower chafer (any flower beetle of tribe Cetoniini)/Eucetonia pilifera (flower chafer species of tribe Cetoniini)/


kanji: 花潜り
kana: はなむぐり
entry:
花潜り [ハナムグリ] /(n,uk) flower chafer (any flower beetle of tribe Cetoniini)/Eucetonia pilifera (flower chafer species of tribe Cetoniini)/


kanji: 雪隠金亀子
kana: せんちこがね
entry:
雪隠金亀子 [センチコガネ] /(n,uk) dor beetle (of family Geotrupidae)/Geotrupes laevistriatus (species of dor beetle)/


kanji: 芥虫
kana: ごみむし
entry:
(n,uk) ground beetle/carabid (esp. of superfamily Caraboidea, but excluding subfamily Carabinae)/Anisodactylus signatus (species of ground beetle)


kanji: 芥虫
kana: ごみむし
entry:
芥虫 [ゴミムシ] /(n,uk) ground beetle/carabid (esp. of superfamily Caraboidea, but excluding subfamily Carabinae)/Anisodactylus signatus (species of ground beetle)/


kanji: 塵芥虫
kana: ごみむし
entry:
塵芥虫 [ゴミムシ] /(n,uk) ground beetle/carabid (esp. of superfamily Caraboidea, but excluding subfamily Carabinae)/Anisodactylus signatus (species of ground beetle)/


kanji: 歩行虫
kana: ごみむし
entry:
歩行虫 [ゴミムシ] /(n,uk) ground beetle/carabid (esp. of superfamily Caraboidea, but excluding subfamily Carabinae)/Anisodactylus signatus (species of ground beetle)/


kanji: 精霊飛蝗擬
kana: しょうりょうばったもどき
entry:
精霊飛蝗擬 [ショウリョウバッタモドキ] /(n,uk) Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust)/


kanji: 精霊飛蝗擬き
kana: しょうりょうばったもどき
entry:
精霊飛蝗擬き [ショウリョウバッタモドキ] /(n,uk) Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust)/


kanji: きちきち蝗虫
kana: きちきちばった
entry:
(n,uk,col,obs) male Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea)/Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust)


kanji: きちきち蝗虫
kana: きちきちばった
entry:
きちきち蝗虫 [キチキチバッタ] /(n,uk,col,obs) male Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea)/Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust)/


kanji: 八大明王
kana: はちだいみょうおう
entry:
(n) eight great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Mezu, Munosho, Trilokavijaya, Ucchusma, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)


kanji: あくが強い
kana: あくがつよい
entry:
(exp) having a strong alkaline taste/harsh to the taste/excessively strong-willed/fiercely individualistic/strongly idiosyncratic


kanji: 目白鮫
kana: めじろざめ
entry:
(n,uk) requiem shark (esp. the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus and other members of this genus)


kanji: 目白鮫
kana: めじろざめ
entry:
目白鮫 [メジロザメ] /(n,uk) requiem shark (esp. the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus and other members of this genus)/


kanji: 藍鮫
kana: あいざめ
entry:
藍鮫 [アイザメ] /(n,uk) any shark of genus Centrophorus (esp. the dwarf gulper shark, Centrophorus atromarginatus)/


kanji: 蛸船
kana: たこぶね
entry:
(n,uk,col) eggcase (shell) of the winged argonaut/winged argonaut (species of paper nautilus, Argonauta hians)


kanji: 蛸船
kana: たこぶね
entry:
蛸船 [タコブネ] /(n,uk,col) eggcase (shell) of the winged argonaut/winged argonaut (species of paper nautilus, Argonauta hians)/


kanji: 豹紋蛸
kana: ひょうもんだこ
entry:
豹紋蛸 [ヒョウモンダコ] /(n,uk) blue-ringed octopus (esp. one species, the blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata)/


kana: かう
entry:
カウ /(n,abbr) automatically responding with an upload slot to someone who allows you to download (e.g. in P2P systems)/


kanji: 頭だし
kana: あたまだし
entry:
(n) cueing (e.g. a magnetic tape, recording) (cuing)/cue/feeding (e.g. paper under a print head)/feed/document loading


kanji: ぴるとだうん人
kana: ぴるとだうんじん
entry:
ピルトダウン人 [ピルトダウンじん] /(n) Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni)/


kana: えおあんとろぷす
entry:
エオアントロプス /(n,obsc) Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni)/


kanji: ぴるとだうん事件
kana: ぴるとだうんじけん
entry:
ピルトダウン事件 [ピルトダウンじけん] /(n,obsc) Piltdown hoax (1912 discovery of a fossilized ape-human missing-link skull, later revealed to be fraudulent)/


kanji: 多芸は無芸
kana: たげいはむげい
entry:
(exp) being multi-talented means never really being especially good at any one thing/jack of all trades, master of none


kanji: 目くそ鼻くそを笑う
kana: めくそはなくそをわらう
entry:
(exp) the pot calling the kettle black (lit: for the sleep in one's eyes to laugh at the snot in one's nose)


kanji: 像主
kana: ぞうしゅ
entry:
(n,obsc) subject (of a portrait or bust)/a person posing for a portrait or bust/(historically) patron/someone who commissions a Buddhist temple or work of art


kana: にゅーねっしー
entry:
ニューネッシー /(n) "New Nessie" (unidentified sea creature discovered by Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru in 1977)/


kanji: 竜田揚げ
kana: たつたあげ
entry:
(n) fish (meat, etc.) flavoured with soy sauce and cooking sake, coated with dogtooth violet starch and then deep fried


kanji: 立田揚げ
kana: たつたあげ
entry:
(n,iK) fish (meat, etc.) flavoured with soy sauce and cooking sake, coated with dogtooth violet starch and then deep fried


kanji: ちり鍋
kana: ちりなべ
entry:
(n) dish of fish (meat, etc.), tofu, vegetables boiled together and served with ponzu dipping sauce/pot used to cook such a dish


kanji: お釜を掘る
kana: おかまをほる
entry:
(exp) to perform anal sex/to bugger/to sodomize/to sodomise/to crash a car into the back of another (usu. used in the passive voice)/to rear-end


kanji: 素粒子の相互作用
kana: そりゅうしのそうごさよう
entry:
(n) fundamental interaction (i.e. gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interaction, strong interaction)


kanji: 酸化窒素
kana: さんかちっそ
entry:
(n) nitrogen oxide (esp. nitric oxide, but also nitrous oxide, nitrogen dioxide, dinitrogen pentoxide, etc.)


kana: びっぐくらんち
entry:
ビッグクランチ /(n) big crunch (theoretical reversal of the big bang resulting in the demise of the universe)/


kanji: 閉塞感
kana: へいそくかん
entry:
(n) locked up feeling/cooped up feeling/feeling of entrapment/(feeling of hopelessness)/being in a bind


kanji: 吹き出し
kana: ふきだし
entry:
(n) blowoff/blowing/venting/speech balloons (in a comic strip)/speech bubble/blowing (of a seasonal or climatic wind)


kana: ふるにとらぜぱむ
entry:
フルニトラゼパム /(n) flunitrazepam (hypnotic drug formerly marketed as Rohypnol)/roofies (flunitrazepam used as a date-rape drug)/


kanji: みつぐ君
kana: みつぐくん
entry:
ミツグ君 [ミツグくん] /(n,sl) man who is easily compelled into giving a woman gifts/a man only used to receive gifts from/


kanji: 帙
kana: ちつ
entry:
(n,ctr) protective covering for books, often in the form of a folding case with clasps/counter for book covers/book cover or dust jacket


kanji: 大船に乗る
kana: おおぶねにのる
entry:
(exp,v5r) metaphor for gaining a reliable foundation and being in a safe condition (lit: to board a large ship)


kanji: 快然
kana: かいぜん
entry:
(adv-to,adj-t,adj-na) happy/elated/good mood/pleasant feelings/cured (of an illness)/recovered (from an illness)


kanji: 目抜
kana: めぬけ
entry:
(n,uk) any large, red, deep-water scorpionfish with big eyes/Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae)


kanji: 目抜
kana: めぬけ
entry:
目抜 [メヌケ] /(n,uk) any large, red, deep-water scorpionfish with big eyes/Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae)/


kanji: 赤魚
kana: あかうお
entry:
(n) Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae)/Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus)/comb goby (Ctenotrypauchen microcephalus)/Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis)


kanji: 赤魚
kana: あかうお
entry:
赤魚 [アカウオ] /(n) Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae)/Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus)/comb goby (Ctenotrypauchen microcephalus)/Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis)/


kana: あかむつ
entry:
アカムツ /(n) Doederleinia berycoides (species of temperate ocean bass)/male dark chub (Zacco temmincki) in mating season/


kanji: 補助単位
kana: ほじょたんい
entry:
(n,obs) prefixed unit of measurement (i.e. millimeter, kilogram, etc.)/supplementary SI unit (radian and steradian)


kanji: 然らば
kana: さらば
entry:
(conj,exp,arch) be that so/in that case/however (with neg)/though that may be the case (with neg)/farewell


kanji: 檜扇
kana: ひおうぎ
entry:
(n) formal folding fan made of hinoki cypress/blackberry lily (Belamcanda Chinensis)/leopard lily/leopard flower


kana: ぞろり
entry:
(adv,adv-to,arch,on-mim) all together in a line/all together in a lump/dressed sloppily/overdressed for the occasion


kana: きりり
entry:
(adv,adv-to,on-mim) stiff and slackless/tense without any looseness/cling tightly/pulled or stretched as far as possible/creaking of a door or oar


kana: でぃーぷすろーと
entry:
ディープスロート /(n,sl) deep throat (i.e. a concealed informant)/deep throat (i.e. deeply penetrative fellatio)/


kanji: 幌
kana: ほろ
entry:
(n) canopy (esp. the cloth or canvas used for it)/awning/top (of a convertible)/hood/helmet cape/cloth covering one's back to protect against arrows during battle


kanji: 餅餤
kana: へいだん
entry:
(n) type of pastry of the Heian period made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares


kanji: 餅腅
kana: へいだん
entry:
(n,oK) type of pastry of the Heian period made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares


kanji: 飾り車
kana: かざりぐるま
entry:
(n) type of carriage beautifully decorated with gold, silver, gems, etc., for use by Heian era nobles at festivals and like activities


kanji: 散形花序
kana: さんけいかじょ
entry:
(n) umbellate inflorescence/umbel (i.e. flower with a large number of flowers growing radially from a common center)


kanji: 繧繝
kana: うんげん
entry:
(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


kanji: 大頭
kana: おおがしら
entry:
(n,uk) leader of a (large) group/large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp/leader of a (large) group


kanji: 綟
kana: もじ
entry:
(n) hemp yarn or linen thread woven into a coarse cloth used for mosquito nets, summer clothes, etc.


kanji: 立てこもり
kana: たてこもり
entry:
(n) shutting oneself in (one's room, etc.)/barricading oneself in (a fort, etc.) while being besieged


kanji: 饕餮
kana: とうてつ
entry:
(n,arch) tao-tie (mythological Chinese creature engraved on bronzeware during the Shang &amp; Zhou dynasties)/(used as a metaphor for a) brutal person/coveting of wealth (property, etc.)


kanji: 痛痒を感じない
kana: つうようをかんじない
entry:
(exp) to neither itch nor feel pain/to not be affected by something/to not feel the effects of something


kanji: 真鍮鑞
kana: しんちゅうろう
entry:
(n) type of alloy of copper and zinc (brass) with zinc at about 33-67% used to solder metals like copper and iron


kanji: 衛士
kana: えじ
entry:
(n) soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc./term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system


kanji: 繞
kana: にょう
entry:
(n,uk) kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji/kanji enclosure-type radical


kanji: 牛舌魚
kana: うしのした
entry:
(n,uk) cow's tongue/sole (any flatfish of suborder Soleoidei, esp. the tonguefishes of family Cynoglossidae or true soles of family Soleidae)


kanji: 結合犯
kana: けつごうはん
entry:
(n) single crime consisting of multiple independent crimes (i.e. robbery, which consists of theft and threats or use of violence)


kanji: 集合犯
kana: しゅうごうはん
entry:
(n) single crime that naturally consists of a number of incidences and is charged as only one count (i.e. habitual gambling)/crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (i.e. insurrection)


kanji: 子の日
kana: ねのひ
entry:
(n,abbr) day of the rat (esp. the first day of the rat in the new year)/collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots/pine shoot pulled out in such a manner


kanji: 子の日の遊び
kana: ねのひのあそび
entry:
(n) collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the rat of the new year)


kanji: 子忌み
kana: ねいみ
entry:
(n,obsc) collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the rat of the new year)


kanji: 此れは
kana: これは
entry:
(exp,uk,int) as for this/hey there (expression of surprise when one encounters something unexpected)/see here/I say


kanji: 過ちを観て斯に仁を知る
kana: あやまちをみてここにじんをしる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to observe the reasons and types of faults a person makes is to come to know whether they are virtuous or not


kanji: 千金の裘は一狐の腋に非ず
kana: せんきんのきゅうはいっこのえきにあらず
entry:
(exp) an expensive fur coat will not be made with a single fox alone/to rule a country requires many great men


kanji: 二十八宿
kana: にじゅうはっしゅく
entry:
(n) twenty-eight mansions of Chinese astronomy (constellations dividing the ecliptic into 28 positions)


kanji: 蒼竜
kana: そうりょう
entry:
(n) blue dragon/Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)/seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens/large horse with a bluish-leaden coat


kanji: 青龍
kana: せいりょう
entry:
(n) blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology)/Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)


kanji: 四神
kana: しじん
entry:
(n) four gods said to rule over the four directions/(in China) four gods said to rule over the four seasons


kanji: 四獣
kana: しじゅう
entry:
(n) four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)/four gods said to rule over the four directions


kanji: 朱雀
kana: すざく
entry:
(n) Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens)/seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens


kanji: 白虎
kana: びゃっこ
entry:
(n) White Tiger (god said to rule over the western heavens)/seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the western heavens


kanji: 玄武
kana: げんぶ
entry:
(n) Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens)/seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens


kanji: 分霊
kana: ぶんれい
entry:
(n) division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine/spirit divided in such a manner


kanji: 勧請
kana: かんじょう
entry:
(n,vs) praying for the coming of a deity/ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location


kanji: 大宮
kana: おおみや
entry:
(n,hon) imperial palace/shrine/Grand Empress Dowager/Empress Dowager/woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child/elderly woman of imperial lineage


kanji: 宝の山に入りながら手を空しくして帰る
kana: たからのやまにいりながらてをむなしくしてかえる
entry:
(exp,v5r) though sitting on a pile of riches, one comes back empty handed/to have a good opportunity only to let it slip from your grasp


kanji: 鬼宿日
kana: きしゅくにち
entry:
(n) "day of the ghost" (an extremely auspicious day on the lunar calendar for everything but weddings)


kanji: 社日
kana: しゃにち
entry:
(n) "tsuchinoe" day that falls closest to the vernal or autumnal equinox (a day of religious significance for harvests)


kanji: 選日
kana: せんじつ
entry:
(n) selecting an auspicious date by looking at the astrological information on the calendar/date selected in such a manner


kana: ぎゅう
entry:
(adv,adv-to,on-mim,n,col) squeezing something tightly/sound made by someone (or something) being squeezed/criticizing someone severely/sound made by someone being criticized/hug


kanji: ふらぐが立つ
kana: ふらぐがたつ
entry:
フラグが立つ [フラグがたつ] /(exp,v5t,sl) to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end)/


kanji: 解釈改憲
kana: かいしゃくかいけん
entry:
(n,vs) effecting de facto constitutional changes through creative interpretation of the existing constitution/reinterpretation of the constitution


kanji: 籠の鳥
kana: かごのとり
entry:
(exp) caged bird/person whose freedom has been restricted (esp. a prostitute, mistress, concubine, etc.)


kanji: 籠で水を汲む
kana: かごでみずをくむ
entry:
(exp,v5m,obsc) like trying to scoop water with a basket (i.e. impossible, a waste of time &amp; energy)


kanji: 天に向かって唾を吐く
kana: てんにむかってつばきをはく
entry:
(exp,v5k) to spit into the wind/in trying to cause harm to another, one invites disaster upon onelself


kanji: 童部
kana: わらわべ
entry:
(n,arch,hum) child/children/child servant/temple page/my (young or child-like) wife/young slacker (who has not yet attained adulthood)


kana: うんともすんとも
entry:
(exp,adv) (followed by a negative verb form) not uttering a single word/not giving even the slightest response


kanji: 髻
kana: もとどり
entry:
(n,arch) place where hair is gathered together atop the head/hair tied (or pinned) together in this position


kanji: 摺り込み染め
kana: すりこみぞめ
entry:
(n,obsc) coloring fabric by placing a paper stencil over it and brushing on the dye/fabric colored in such a manner


kanji: 摺り染め
kana: すりぞめ
entry:
(n,obsc) method of patterning fabric by pounding on leaves (or flowers, etc.) placed on it, or by rubbing in dye made from these materials/coloring fabric by placing a paper stencil over it and brushing on the dye


kanji: ふぜあ調
kana: ふぜあちょう
entry:
フゼア調 [フゼアちょう] /(n) Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)/


kanji: しぷれ調
kana: しぷれちょう
entry:
シプレ調 [シプレちょう] /(n) Chypre fragrance (family of scents including sage, lavender, and oak moss, used in perfumes)/


kanji: 忍
kana: しのぶ
entry:
(n,uk,abbr) Davallia mariesii (species of fern)/Lepisorus thunbergiana (species of fern)/color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue)/ancient women's hairstyle


kanji: 襲
kana: かさね
entry:
(n,abbr) layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat/combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours)


kanji: 下前
kana: したまえ
entry:
(n) part of the fabric that is tucked closest to the skin when wearing a garment that is wrapped in front of one (such as a kimono)


kanji: 長襦袢
kana: ながじばん
entry:
長襦袢 [ながジバン] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 長襦袢
kana: ながじゅばん
entry:
長襦袢 [ながジュバン] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 長じばん
kana: ながじゅばん
entry:
長ジバン [ながじゅばん] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 長じばん
kana: ながじばん
entry:
長ジバン [ながじばん] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 長じばん
kana: ながじばん
entry:
長ジバン [ながジバン] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 長じばん
kana: ながじゅばん
entry:
長ジバン [ながジュバン] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 長じゅばん
kana: ながじゅばん
entry:
長ジュバン [ながじゅばん] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 長じゅばん
kana: ながじばん
entry:
長ジュバン [ながじばん] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 長じゅばん
kana: ながじばん
entry:
長ジュバン [ながジバン] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 長じゅばん
kana: ながじゅばん
entry:
長ジュバン [ながジュバン] /(n) long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono/under-kimono/


kanji: 袖下
kana: そでした
entry:
(n,arch) bottom of the sleeve/height of the sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)/secret/secret bribe


kanji: 忘れ緒
kana: わすれお
entry:
(n) decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi


kanji: 半臂の緒
kana: はんぴのお
entry:
(n,obsc) decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi


kanji: 配する
kana: はいする
entry:
(vs-s,vt,arch) to distribute/to arrange/to allot (to a position of authority, etc.)/to arrange/to lay out (as in decorating)/to marry off/to exile/to banish


kanji: あいぬ新法
kana: あいぬしんぽう
entry:
アイヌ新法 [アイヌしんぽう] /(n) New Ainu Law (passed in 1997, aiming at promoting and protecting Ainu culture)/


kanji: 副部長
kana: ふくぶちょう
entry:
(n) deputy director/assistant director/vice director/deputy general manager/assistant general manager/vice (general) manager


kanji: 闕腋
kana: けってき
entry:
(n,abbr) unstitched, open side of some traditional Japanese clothing/clothing with such an open side/robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides and no ran


kanji: 縫腋の袍
kana: ほうえきのほう
entry:
(n) robe with a round collar, stitched sides and a ran, worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials


kanji: 縫腋
kana: ほうえき
entry:
(n) stitched side of some traditional Japanese clothing/clothing with such a stitched side/robe with a round collar, stitched sides and a ran, worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials


kana: あぽみくてぃっく
entry:
アポミクティック /(n) apomictic/of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis/related to reproduction without fertilization, meiosis or production of gametes, with the result that the seeds are genetically identical to the parent plant/


kanji: あぽみくしす性
kana: あぽみくしすせい
entry:
アポミクシス性 [アポミクシスせい] /(n,adj-no) apomictic/of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis/related to reproduction without fertilization, meiosis or production of gametes, with the result that the seeds are genetically identical to the parent plant/


kanji: 缶
kana: ほとぎ
entry:
(n) fat-bodied, small-mouthed earthenware jar for carrying water/water vessel used for a baby's first bath


kanji: 老頭
kana: おいがしら
entry:
(n) helmet with white hair coming out of the top to make one look like an old person/kanji "old" radical at top


kanji: には及ばない
kana: にはおよばない
entry:
(exp,uk) (after a verb) there is no need to/it is fine if you don't/unnecessary/(after a noun) does not match/out of reach of


kanji: 半挿
kana: はんぞう
entry:
(n) tea pot like object made typically of lacquer ware and used to pour hot and cold liquids/basin of water with two handles on either side used for washing one's face or hands


kanji: 匜
kana: はんぞう
entry:
(n,oK) tea pot like object made typically of lacquer ware and used to pour hot and cold liquids/basin of water with two handles on either side used for washing one's face or hands


kanji: 頭が上がらない
kana: あたまがあがらない
entry:
(exp) to be no match for (e.g. outclassed in authority, strength or in debt to)/to be unable to act on an equal basis with


kanji: 山が当たる
kana: やまがあたる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to accurately guess what subjects will turn up on a test/to have one's predictions turn out correct


kanji: 唯識
kana: ゆいしき
entry:
(n) vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind)


kanji: 根
kana: こん
entry:
(n) stick-to-itiveness/perseverance/persistence/radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily)/root/indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs)


kanji: 根から
kana: ねから
entry:
(adv,adj-no) since the beginning/natural-born (salesman, etc.)/(followed by a verb in negative form) absolutely (not)/(not) at all


kanji: 蠱物
kana: まじもの
entry:
(n,vs,arch) charmed and cursed/something that bewilders/something that leads one astray/the work of demons


kanji: 蠱
kana: まじ
entry:
(n,arch) charmed and cursed/something that bewilders/something that leads one astray/the work of demons


kanji: 呪う
kana: まじなう
entry:
(v5u,arch) to pray that one avoids disaster or illness/to pray/to pray for the death or misfortune of another/to curse/to treat illness with prayer


kanji: 洋形
kana: ようけい
entry:
(n) Japanese Western-style envelope (opening on the long dimension; numbered 0-7, each with different sizes)


kanji: 角形
kana: かくけい
entry:
(n) (N)-cornered polygon, incl. triangle/Japanese rectangular envelope (opening on the short dimension; numbered 0-8, A3, A4, each with different sizes)


kanji: 糸を引く
kana: いとをひく
entry:
(exp,v5k) to pull (the puppet) strings/to direct things from behind the scenes/to stretch out (and keep going)/to linger on


kanji: 後を引く
kana: あとをひく
entry:
(exp,v5k) to be moreish/to have a quality that encourages you to eat (drink) more of them after/to have lingering effects


kanji: 石帯
kana: せきたい
entry:
(n,obsc) special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels


kanji: 石の帯
kana: いしのおび
entry:
(n) special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels


kanji: 田楽返し
kana: でんがくがえし
entry:
(n,arch) device with axle used to change the backdrop of a (kabuki) play/turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides


kanji: 田遊び
kana: たあそび
entry:
(n) ritual Shinto performance (usually performed around New Year's) to pray for a successful rice harvest in the coming year


kanji: 田植え踊り
kana: たうえおどり
entry:
(n) refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tohoku about half way through the first lunar month


kanji: 神田
kana: しんでん
entry:
(n,arch) field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations)


kanji: 田植え祭り
kana: たうえまつり
entry:
(n) shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a succesful harvest/seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine


kanji: のり突っ込み
kana: のりつっこみ
entry:
ノリ突っ込み [ノリつっこみ] /(n) going along with a joke (or other boke) at the start then pointing out its ridiculousness/


kanji: 謀る
kana: たばかる
entry:
(v5r,vt,arch,uk) to work out a plan of deception/to scheme/to take in/to dupe/to think up a plan/to think over a plan/to discuss/to consult


kana: そーらーぽんど
entry:
ソーラーポンド /(n) solar pond (salty pond in which energy from solar energy accumulates in the lower layers, due to lack of convection)/


kanji: 後を追う
kana: あとをおう
entry:
(exp,v5u) to pursue/to die right after a loved one/to kill oneself (because one misses or longs to be with a loved one)/to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)


kanji: ちゃぐちゃぐ馬こ
kana: ちゃぐちゃぐうまこ
entry:
チャグチャグ馬コ [チャグチャグうまコ] /(n) Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture)/small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate prefecture)/


kanji: ちゃぐちゃぐ馬こ
kana: ちゃぐちゃぐうまこ
entry:
チャグチャグ馬コ [チャグチャグうまこ] /(n) Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture)/small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate prefecture)/


kanji: ちゃぐちゃぐ馬こ
kana: ちゃぐちゃぐうまこ
entry:
チャグチャグ馬こ [チャグチャグうまコ] /(n) Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture)/small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate prefecture)/


kanji: ちゃぐちゃぐ馬こ
kana: ちゃぐちゃぐうまこ
entry:
チャグチャグ馬こ [チャグチャグうまこ] /(n) Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture)/small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate prefecture)/


kanji: 寵愛昂じて尼にする
kana: ちょうあいこうじてあまにする
entry:
(exp,vs-i,obsc) to love one's child too much for their own good (lit: to love one's daughter so much as to make her a nun)


kanji: 寵愛昂じて尼になす
kana: ちょうあいこうじてあまになす
entry:
(exp,obsc) to love one's child too much for their own good (lit: to love one's daughter so much as to make her a nun)


kana: ぶるせらしょっぷ
entry:
ブルセラショップ /(n) used women's clothing store (catering to male clientele who purchase panties, high-school uniforms, etc. for sexual arousal)/


kanji: 皮蛋
kana: ぴーたん
entry:
皮蛋 [ピータン] /(n) century egg/thousand-year old egg/hundred-year old egg/preserved egg (Chinese delicacy)/


kanji: 整合説
kana: せいごうせつ
entry:
(n) coherence theory (theory that a proposition is true if it corresponds with a specified set of other propositions)


kanji: 対応説
kana: たいおうせつ
entry:
(n) correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts)


kanji: 達磨歌
kana: だるまうた
entry:
(n,obsc) confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika)


kanji: 不幸中の幸い
kana: ふこうちゅうのさいわい
entry:
(exp) small mercy (from some misfortune)/silver lining of a dark cloud/consolation in sadness/blessing in disguise


kanji: 法輪
kana: ほうりん
entry:
(n) dharmachakra (dharma wheel, the teachings of Buddha as likened to a weapon used to destroy the evil of mankind)


kanji: 菩提道場
kana: ぼだいどうじょう
entry:
(n) Bodhi-manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)


kanji: 白沢
kana: はくたく
entry:
(n) bai ze (mythical chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)


kanji: 宇賀神
kana: うがじん
entry:
(n) god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox)


kanji: 宇賀の神
kana: うかのかみ
entry:
(n,obsc) god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox)


kanji: 果
kana: か
entry:
(n,ctr) phala (attained state, result)/enlightenment (as the fruits of one's Buddhist practice)/fruit/counter for pieces of fruit


kanji: 五明
kana: ごみょう
entry:
(n) the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)


kanji: 声明
kana: しょうみょう
entry:
(n) sabdavidya (ancient Indian linguistic and grammatical studies)/chanting of Buddhist hymns (usu. in Sanskrit or Chinese)


kanji: 寂
kana: じゃく
entry:
(n,n-suf,adj-t,adv-to) (entering into) nirvana/used after a date to indicate the death of a monk at that time/silent/tranquil


kanji: 三聖
kana: さんせい
entry:
(n) any of a number of lists of three enlightened men, including (but not limited to): Buddha, Confucius and Christ/Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha/Fu Xi, King Wen and Confucius


kana: かうんたーきっちん
entry:
カウンターキッチン /(n) kitchen with a small counter for eating, usu. allowing a view into the living and dining rooms/


kanji: 油子
kana: あぶらこ
entry:
油子 [アブラコ] /(n,uk) (as used in Northern Japan) greenling/(as used in Kochi and surrounds) medaka ricefish/


kanji: 捨て印
kana: すていん
entry:
(n) marginal seal (special seal affixed into the margins of an official document to indicate that any later revisions to the document are valid)


kanji: 訂正印
kana: ていせいいん
entry:
(n) revision seal/correction seal (special seal used to indicate a correction in an official document)


kanji: 犬も歩けば棒に当たる
kana: いぬもあるけばぼうにあたる
entry:
(exp) no matter what you attempt, tragedy may befall you (lit: even a dog, if it walks, will bump into a pole)/good luck may come unexpectedly


kanji: 廟号
kana: びょうごう
entry:
(n) temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty)/name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.)


kanji: 浩然の気
kana: こうぜんのき
entry:
(n) universal life force (the source of animation for all things)/free spirit (i.e. a mindset unencumbered with worldly concerns)


kana: ぷろまいど
entry:
プロマイド /(n) Promide (product name for bromides released by Marubell)/bromide (publicity photograph of a movie star, entertainer, etc.)/


kanji: 駅前留学
kana: えきまえりゅうがく
entry:
(n) attending foreign language study at a school near the train station (esp. used as a NOVA catchphrase)


kanji: 黥く
kana: めさく
entry:
(v5k,arch,obsc) to have a facial tattoo (esp. one around the eye, one form of punishment in ancient Japan)


kanji: 妄心
kana: もうしん
entry:
(n) deluded mind (a mind polluted with klesha, incapable of understanding the original essence of things)


kanji: 小笠原流
kana: おがさわらりゅう
entry:
(n,col) Ogasawara-ryu (school of etiquette)/punctilious etiquette/Ogasawara-ryu (school of archery, inc. horseback archery)/Ogasawara-ryu (school of military strategy)


kanji: 応身
kana: おうじん
entry:
(n) nirmanakaya (response body, form taken by a buddha according to the capabilities of those who are to be saved)


kanji: はこべ塩
kana: はこべじお
entry:
ハコベ塩 [はこべじお] /(n,obsc) chickweed (stitchwort) roasted and mixed with salt, then ground into a powder for use as toothpaste/


kanji: はこべ塩
kana: はこべじお
entry:
ハコベ塩 [ハコベじお] /(n,obsc) chickweed (stitchwort) roasted and mixed with salt, then ground into a powder for use as toothpaste/


kanji: はこべ塩
kana: はこべじお
entry:
(n,obsc) chickweed (stitchwort) roasted and mixed with salt, then ground into a powder for use as toothpaste


kanji: はこべ塩
kana: はこべじお
entry:
はこべ塩 [ハコベじお] /(n,obsc) chickweed (stitchwort) roasted and mixed with salt, then ground into a powder for use as toothpaste/


kanji: 繁縷塩
kana: はこべじお
entry:
繁縷塩 [ハコベじお] /(n,obsc) chickweed (stitchwort) roasted and mixed with salt, then ground into a powder for use as toothpaste/


kanji: 鸛の揺り籠
kana: こうのとりのゆりかご
entry:
鸛の揺り籠 [コウノトリのゆりかご] /(n,uk) baby hatch for unwanted newborns at Jikei Hospital, Kumamoto (lit: stork's cradle)/


kanji: こうのとりの揺り籠
kana: こうのとりのゆりかご
entry:
コウノトリの揺り籠 [こうのとりのゆりかご] /(n,uk) baby hatch for unwanted newborns at Jikei Hospital, Kumamoto (lit: stork's cradle)/


kanji: こうのとりの揺り籠
kana: こうのとりのゆりかご
entry:
コウノトリの揺り籠 [コウノトリのゆりかご] /(n,uk) baby hatch for unwanted newborns at Jikei Hospital, Kumamoto (lit: stork's cradle)/


kana: くーばーど
entry:
クーバード /(n,obsc) couvade (custom in which a male acts out the physical process of his own child being born)/


kanji: 用不用説
kana: ようふようせつ
entry:
(n) Lamarckian evolutionary theory in which individuals lose characteristics that are not used and develop characteristics that are often used


kanji: 内障
kana: ないしょう
entry:
(n) internal hindrance/any visual disorder caused by a problem within the eye (i.e. glaucoma, amaurosis, etc.)


kanji: 紅葉卸し
kana: もみじおろし
entry:
紅葉卸し [モミジオロシ] /(n) whole daikon with a chile pepper notched inside and then grated/grated daikon and grated carrot mixed together/


kanji: 紅葉卸し
kana: もみじおろし
entry:
(n) whole daikon with a chile pepper notched inside and then grated/grated daikon and grated carrot mixed together


kanji: 紅葉おろし
kana: もみじおろし
entry:
紅葉おろし [モミジオロシ] /(n) whole daikon with a chile pepper notched inside and then grated/grated daikon and grated carrot mixed together/


kanji: 妹背鳥
kana: いもせどり
entry:
(n,obsc) any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits)/lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)


kanji: 山杜鵑
kana: やまほととぎす
entry:
(n,uk) lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) (esp. one living in the mountains)/Tricyrtis macropoda (species of toad lily)


kanji: 托卵
kana: たくらん
entry:
(n) brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)


kanji: 託卵
kana: たくらん
entry:
(n,iK) brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)


kanji: 瑠璃鳥
kana: るりちょう
entry:
(n,col) Formosan whistling thrush (Myophonus insularis)/blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)


kanji: 葭切
kana: よしきり
entry:
葭切 [ヨシキリ] /(n,uk) reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler)/


kanji: 葦切
kana: よしきり
entry:
葦切 [ヨシキリ] /(n,uk) reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler)/


kanji: 葦雀
kana: よしきり
entry:
葦雀 [ヨシキリ] /(n,uk) reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler)/


kanji: 盗賊鴎
kana: とうぞくかもめ
entry:
(n,uk) skua (any bird of family Stercorariidae, inc. the jaegers)/pomarine jaeger/pomarine skua (Stercorarius pomarinus)


kanji: 盗賊鴎
kana: とうぞくかもめ
entry:
盗賊鴎 [トウゾクカモメ] /(n,uk) skua (any bird of family Stercorariidae, inc. the jaegers)/pomarine jaeger/pomarine skua (Stercorarius pomarinus)/


kanji: 鶲
kana: ひたき
entry:
(n,uk) Old World flycatcher (any bird of family Muscicapinae, esp. the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae)


kanji: 鶲
kana: ひたき
entry:
鶲 [ヒタキ] /(n,uk) Old World flycatcher (any bird of family Muscicapinae, esp. the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae)/


kanji: 火焼
kana: ひたき
entry:
火焼 [ヒタキ] /(n,uk) Old World flycatcher (any bird of family Muscicapinae, esp. the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae)/


kana: あいどるこらーじゅ
entry:
アイドルコラージュ /(n) altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc./


kana: あいこら
entry:
アイコラ /(n,abbr) altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc./


kanji: 真烏賊
kana: まいか
entry:
真烏賊 [マイカ] /(n) Japanese common squid/Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus)/golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta)/Japanese spineless cuttlefish (Sepiella japonica)/


kanji: 真烏賊
kana: まいか
entry:
(n) Japanese common squid/Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus)/golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta)/Japanese spineless cuttlefish (Sepiella japonica)


kanji: 墨烏賊
kana: すみいか
entry:
墨烏賊 [スミイカ] /(n,uk) golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta)/Japanese spineless cuttlefish (Sepiella japonica)/


kanji: 喜知次
kana: きちじ
entry:
喜知次 [キチジ] /(n,uk) broadbanded thornyhead/broadfin thornyhead/kichiji rockfish (Sebastolobus macrochir)/


kanji: 吉次
kana: きちじ
entry:
吉次 [キチジ] /(n,uk) broadbanded thornyhead/broadfin thornyhead/kichiji rockfish (Sebastolobus macrochir)/


kanji: 太極
kana: たいきょく
entry:
(n) taiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, inc. time and space)


kanji: 寺預け
kana: てらあずけ
entry:
(n,obsc) incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)


kanji: 寺入り
kana: てらいり
entry:
(n) to enrol in a temple school/child enrolled in a temple school/incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)


kanji: 嘴細啄木鳥
kana: はしぼそきつつき
entry:
(n,uk) northern flicker (species of bird, inc. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)


kanji: 嘴細啄木鳥
kana: はしぼそきつつき
entry:
嘴細啄木鳥 [ハシボソキツツキ] /(n,uk) northern flicker (species of bird, inc. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)/


kanji: 幕が開く
kana: まくがあく
entry:
(exp,v5k) to start an act (of a play)/to have curtains open/to have an (event, period of history, etc.) start


kanji: 西国
kana: さいごく
entry:
(n,abbr) the western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki)/western nations (esp. India or Europe)/33 temples in the Kinki area containing a statue of Avalokitesvara


kanji: 黒酢
kana: くろず
entry:
(n) black vinegar, usu. produced from unpolished rice/charred kelp or shiitake mushrooms ground and mixed with vinegar, used to dress raw fish and vegetables


kanji: 苗代茱萸
kana: なわしろぐみ
entry:
苗代茱萸 [ナワシログミ] /(n,uk) silverthorn (species of oleaster, Elaeagnus pungens)/thorny elaeagnus/thorny olive/


kanji: 苗代胡頽子
kana: なわしろぐみ
entry:
苗代胡頽子 [ナワシログミ] /(n,uk) silverthorn (species of oleaster, Elaeagnus pungens)/thorny elaeagnus/thorny olive/


kanji: ろしゅ限界
kana: ろしゅげんかい
entry:
ロシュ限界 [ロシュげんかい] /(n) Roche limit/Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)/


kanji: ろしゅ限界
kana: ろっしゅげんかい
entry:
ロシュ限界 [ロッシュげんかい] /(n) Roche limit/Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)/


kanji: ろっしゅ限界
kana: ろしゅげんかい
entry:
ロッシュ限界 [ロシュげんかい] /(n) Roche limit/Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)/


kanji: ろっしゅ限界
kana: ろっしゅげんかい
entry:
ロッシュ限界 [ロッシュげんかい] /(n) Roche limit/Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)/


kana: かんぺ
entry:
カンペ /(n,abbr) large sketchbook used during TV filming to notify the cast of special stage direction, relay messages, etc./cue card/


kanji: 揚羽
kana: あげは
entry:
揚羽 [アゲハ] /(n,uk,abbr) swallowtail butterfly (esp. the citrus swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus)/


kanji: です体
kana: ですたい
entry:
(n) literary form imparting the nuance of polite speech (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")


kanji: 世に説く
kana: よにとく
entry:
(exp,v5k) to set forth/to put forward/to present for consideration/to explain the facts of life/to preach


kanji: 大不敬
kana: だいふけい
entry:
(n,arch) great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family)/crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.)


kanji: 不道
kana: ふどう
entry:
(n,arch) immorality/inhumanity/(the crime of) barbarity (such as killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse)


kanji: 十悪
kana: じゅうあく
entry:
(n) the ten abominations (the ten most grievous offenses under traditional Chinese law)/the ten evil deeds


kanji: 海星
kana: ひとで
entry:
(n,uk) starfish (any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea)/asteroid/sea star/northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)/someone else's hands/other hands/hand (worker)


kanji: 海星
kana: ひとで
entry:
海星 [ヒトデ] /(n,uk) starfish (any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea)/asteroid/sea star/northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)/someone else's hands/other hands/hand (worker)/


kanji: 人手
kana: ひとで
entry:
人手 [ヒトデ] /(n,uk) starfish (any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea)/asteroid/sea star/northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)/someone else's hands/other hands/hand (worker)/


kanji: 海盤車
kana: ひとで
entry:
海盤車 [ヒトデ] /(n,uk) starfish (any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea)/asteroid/sea star/northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)/someone else's hands/other hands/hand (worker)/


kanji: 川竹
kana: かわたけ
entry:
(n,arch,id) bamboo growing along a river bank/Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides)/giant timber bamboo/madake/Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)/prostitute


kanji: 苦竹
kana: にがたけ
entry:
(n) Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides)/giant timber bamboo/madake/Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)


kanji: 幹竹
kana: からたけ
entry:
(n,uk) Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides)/giant timber bamboo/madake/Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)


kanji: 幹竹
kana: からたけ
entry:
幹竹 [カラタケ] /(n,uk) Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides)/giant timber bamboo/madake/Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)/


kanji: 角蝉
kana: つのぜみ
entry:
角蝉 [ツノゼミ] /(n,uk) treehopper (any insect of family Membracidae, esp. the species Orthobelus flavipes)/


kanji: 特典映像
kana: とくてんえいぞう
entry:
(n) bonus footage (e.g. behind-the-scenes interviews), such as that included on DVDs of movies, television programs, etc.


kanji: 汎称
kana: はんしょう
entry:
(n,vs) lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name/collective name/generic term


kanji: 七つ星
kana: ななつぼし
entry:
(n) the big dipper/family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles)/Japanese pilchard/Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus)


kanji: 橄欖
kana: かんらん
entry:
橄欖 [カンラン] /(n,uk) Chinese white olive (Canarium album)/olive (Olea europea) (used as an incorrect translation)/


kana: やぶさめ
entry:
ヤブサメ /(n) Asian stubtail (bird), Urosphena squameiceps/family of birds (stubtails), Urosphena, including the Asian stubtail, the Timor stubtail, etc./


kanji: 貂
kana: てん
entry:
貂 [テン] /(n,uk) Japanese marten (Martes melampus)/marten (any arboreal weasel-like mammal of genus Martes)/


kanji: 黄鼬
kana: てん
entry:
黄鼬 [テン] /(n,uk) Japanese marten (Martes melampus)/marten (any arboreal weasel-like mammal of genus Martes)/


kanji: 対馬貂
kana: つしまてん
entry:
対馬貂 [ツシマテン] /(n,uk) Tsushima marten (Martes melampus tsuensis, a subspecies of the Japanese marten)/


kanji: ×
kana: ばつ
entry:
(n,uk) x-mark (used to indicate an incorrect answer in a test, etc.)/impossibility/futility/uselessness


kanji: ×
kana: ぺけ
entry:
× [ペケ] /(n,uk) x-mark (used to indicate an incorrect answer in a test, etc.)/impossibility/futility/uselessness/


kanji: 語群
kana: ごぐん
entry:
(n) group of languages (i.e. the Romance languages, considered as a subset of the Italic languages)/group of words


kanji: ぶらいと運動
kana: ぶらいとうんどう
entry:
ブライト運動 [ブライトうんどう] /(n) Bright's movement (movement comprised of naturalists, atheists, agnostics, etc.)/


kanji: 尾巻猿
kana: おまきざる
entry:
(n,uk) any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)


kanji: 尾巻猿
kana: おまきざる
entry:
尾巻猿 [オマキザル] /(n,uk) any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)/


kana: ないとろじぇんますたーど
entry:
ナイトロジェンマスタード /(n) nitrogen mustard (chemical compound related to mustard gas, used as a chemical weapon or an anticarcinogen)/


kanji: 持ち越し
kana: もちこし
entry:
(n,vs,col) work, items, etc. carried over from earlier/hangover/what you ate the day before (and is still being digested)


kanji: 機織鳥
kana: はたおりどり
entry:
機織鳥 [ハタオリドリ] /(n,uk) weaverbird/weaver (any of a number of birds in family Ploceidae that weave elaborate nests)/


kanji: 蜜吸い
kana: みつすい
entry:
(n,uk) honeyeater (any of a number of long-tongued Australasian songbirds, esp. the cardinal honeyeater, Myzomela cardinalis)


kanji: 蜜吸い
kana: みつすい
entry:
蜜吸い [ミツスイ] /(n,uk) honeyeater (any of a number of long-tongued Australasian songbirds, esp. the cardinal honeyeater, Myzomela cardinalis)/


kanji: 蜜吸
kana: みつすい
entry:
蜜吸 [ミツスイ] /(n,uk) honeyeater (any of a number of long-tongued Australasian songbirds, esp. the cardinal honeyeater, Myzomela cardinalis)/


kanji: 鶸
kana: ひわ
entry:
(n,uk) cardueline finch (any finch of subfamily Carduelinae, esp. the Eurasian siskin, Carduelis spinus)


kanji: 鶸
kana: ひわ
entry:
鶸 [ヒワ] /(n,uk) cardueline finch (any finch of subfamily Carduelinae, esp. the Eurasian siskin, Carduelis spinus)/


kanji: 金翅雀
kana: ひわ
entry:
金翅雀 [ヒワ] /(n,uk) cardueline finch (any finch of subfamily Carduelinae, esp. the Eurasian siskin, Carduelis spinus)/


kanji: 十方
kana: じっぽう
entry:
(n) the ten directions (north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, up &amp; down)/all directions/everywhere


kanji: 宮古蟇
kana: みやこひきがえる
entry:
(n,uk) Miyako toad (Bufo gargarizans miyakonis, a subspecies of the Asiatic toad endemic to the Ryukyu Islands)


kanji: 宮古蟇
kana: みやこひきがえる
entry:
宮古蟇 [ミヤコヒキガエル] /(n,uk) Miyako toad (Bufo gargarizans miyakonis, a subspecies of the Asiatic toad endemic to the Ryukyu Islands)/


kanji: 紅毛船
kana: こうもうせん
entry:
(n,arch,col) foreign ship (originally only of Dutch ships, but later referring to all foreign ships)


kanji: 北狄
kana: ほくてき
entry:
(n,arch,derog) northern barbarians (used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the north)


kanji: こけ植物
kana: こけしょくぶつ
entry:
コケ植物 [コケしょくぶつ] /(n) bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, inc. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)/


kanji: こけ植物
kana: こけしょくぶつ
entry:
コケ植物 [こけしょくぶつ] /(n) bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, inc. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)/


kanji: 苔植物
kana: こけしょくぶつ
entry:
苔植物 [コケしょくぶつ] /(n) bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, inc. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)/


kanji: 松藻
kana: まつも
entry:
松藻 [マツモ] /(n,uk) common hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum)/Analipus japonicus (species of brown alga)/


kanji: 狭鼻猿類
kana: きょうびえんるい
entry:
(n,adj-no) catarrhine (primate of infraorder Catarrhini having nostrils that are close together, esp. the Old World monkeys of family Cercopithecidae)


kana: さばんなもんきー
entry:
サバンナモンキー /(n) savannah monkey (the vervet monkey, green monkey and grivet monkey taken collectively as one species, Cercopithecus aethiops)/


kanji: 緑猿
kana: みどりざる
entry:
(n) green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus, sometimes considered to be a subspecies of Chlorocebus aethiops)


kanji: 手を打つ
kana: てをうつ
entry:
(exp,v5t) to take measures (in face of events being anticipated)/to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.)/to strike a bargain/to clap one's hands together


kanji: 針金虫
kana: はりがねむし
entry:
(n,uk) any horsehair worm of class Gordioidea/gordian worm (of class Gordioidea)/hair worm (of class Gordioidea)/wireworm (click beetle larva)


kanji: 針金虫
kana: はりがねむし
entry:
針金虫 [ハリガネムシ] /(n,uk) any horsehair worm of class Gordioidea/gordian worm (of class Gordioidea)/hair worm (of class Gordioidea)/wireworm (click beetle larva)/


kanji: 線形虫
kana: せんけいちゅう
entry:
(n) nematomorph/horsehair worm/gordian worm/hair worm (any of the parasitic nematode-like worms of phylum Nematomorpha)


kanji: ＣＡＭ植物
kana: かむしょくぶつ
entry:
ＣＡＭ植物 [カムしょくぶつ] /(n) CAM plant (any plant, such as the pineapple, that uses crassulacean acid metabolism)/


kanji: 入唐八家
kana: にっとうはっけ
entry:
(n) eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian (Enchin, Engyou, Ennin, Eun, Jougyou, Kuukai, Saichou, and Shuuei)


kanji: 南都六宗
kana: なんとろくしゅう
entry:
(n) six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)


kanji: 八宗
kana: はっしゅう
entry:
(n) the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period


kanji: 八家
kana: はっけ
entry:
(n,abbr) the eight early Japanese Buddhist sects/eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian


kanji: く語法
kana: くごほう
entry:
ク語法 [クごほう] /(n) creating a noun by affixing "ku" to the end of an inflectable word (i.e. "omowaku", "osoraku", etc.)/


kanji: 兄
kana: けい
entry:
(n,n-suf,pn,adj-no,fam,male) elder brother/pronoun or suffix used in reference to an older brother figure/Mister/Mr


kanji: 閨
kana: ねや
entry:
(n) sleeping quarters/bedroom (mainly refers to one used by a married couple)/inner room/inner sanctum


kanji: 京の着倒れ
kana: きょうのきだおれ
entry:
(exp) financially ruining oneself by buying too many clothes (as a fabled tendency of the people of Kyoto)


kanji: 大阪の食い倒れ
kana: おおさかのくいだおれ
entry:
(exp) financially ruining oneself by overindulging in food and drink (as a fabled tendency of the people of Osaka)


kanji: 水母の骨
kana: くらげのほね
entry:
(exp,obsc) something that one would not expect to exist (lit: jellyfish bones)/something exceedingly rare


kanji: 借りてきた猫
kana: かりてきたねこ
entry:
(exp) being quiet and meek (in contrast to normal behaviour) (c.f. meek as a lamb)/lit: a borrowed cat


kanji: 唐当帰
kana: からとうき
entry:
唐当帰 [カラトウキ] /(n,uk) dong quai (aromatic herb used to treat various gynecological symptoms, Angelica sinensis)/


kanji: 当帰
kana: とうき
entry:
(n,uk,obsc) dong dang gui (aromatic herb similar to dong quai, Angelica acutiloba)/dong quai (aromatic herb used to treat various gynecological symptoms, Angelica sinensis)


kanji: 当帰
kana: とうき
entry:
当帰 [トウキ] /(n,uk,obsc) dong dang gui (aromatic herb similar to dong quai, Angelica acutiloba)/dong quai (aromatic herb used to treat various gynecological symptoms, Angelica sinensis)/


kanji: 下文
kana: くだしぶみ
entry:
(n) edict from a senior official in government or military which had the status of a binding official document


kanji: 由ありげ
kana: よしありげ
entry:
(adj-na,arch) meaningful/suggestive/seeming to be with a history/seeming to be with circumstances that are hard to explain


kanji: 子細ありげ
kana: しさいありげ
entry:
(adj-na) seeming to be for a certain reason/seeming to indicate there are special circumstances/seeming to indicate there is more than meets the eye


kana: ふらいんぐげっと
entry:
フライングゲット /(n,vs) obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale/


kana: ふらっぐげっと
entry:
フラッグゲット /(n,vs) obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale/


kana: ふらげ
entry:
フラゲ /(n,vs,abbr) obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale/


kanji: 帰りなんいざ
kana: かえりなんいざ
entry:
(exp,arch) Come away home! (expression suggesting quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown)


kana: ぎりせーふ
entry:
ギリセーフ /(exp,col,abbr) just safe (e.g. just avoiding being late, failing an exam, etc.)/just (barely) OK/


kanji: 餡餅
kana: あんもち
entry:
(n,fem) mochi rice cake with red bean jam filling/mochi rice cake covered in red bean jam/mochi rice cake


kanji: 石油ぴーく
kana: せきゆぴーく
entry:
石油ピーク [せきゆピーク] /(n) peak oil (date when the peak of the world's petroleum production rate is reached)/


kanji: つけが回って来る
kana: つけがまわってくる
entry:
ツケが回って来る [ツケがまわってくる] /(exp,vk) the bill will come due (expression used to imply that someone will eventually have to pay the price for their misdeeds)/


kanji: つけが回って来る
kana: つけがまわってくる
entry:
ツケが回って来る [つけがまわってくる] /(exp,vk) the bill will come due (expression used to imply that someone will eventually have to pay the price for their misdeeds)/


kanji: 付けが回って来る
kana: つけがまわってくる
entry:
付けが回って来る [ツケがまわってくる] /(exp,vk) the bill will come due (expression used to imply that someone will eventually have to pay the price for their misdeeds)/


kanji: 付けが回って来る
kana: つけがまわってくる
entry:
(exp,vk) the bill will come due (expression used to imply that someone will eventually have to pay the price for their misdeeds)


kanji: 付けが回る
kana: つけがまわる
entry:
(exp,v5r) the bill will come due (expression used to imply that someone will eventually have to pay the price for their misdeeds)


kanji: 糸くず
kana: いとくず
entry:
(n) lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket)/waste thread/fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam/fluff


kanji: 削り代
kana: けずりしろ
entry:
(n) cutting stock (extra material cut off in machining operations as a safety margin for tolerances)/machining allowance


kanji: 獣
kana: しし
entry:
(n,arch,abbr) beast (esp. one used for its meat, such as a boar or a deer)/hunting (of animals such as boar, deer, etc.)


kanji: はんろんの剃刀
kana: はんろんのかみそり
entry:
ハンロンの剃刀 [ハンロンのかみそり] /(n,obsc) Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity")/


kana: ぶっぶー
entry:
ブッブー /(int,col) buh-boo (from sound of 'wrong' buzzer in quiz shows, used when somebody says an incorrect answer)/


kanji: ＲＶ車
kana: あーるぶいしゃ
entry:
ＲＶ車 [アールブイしゃ] /(n) sports utility vehicle/SUV/four wheel drive (car or minivan)/lit: recreational vehicle (RV) (usu. not camper or motor home)/


kanji: あーるぶい車
kana: あーるぶいしゃ
entry:
アールブイ車 [アールブイしゃ] /(n) sports utility vehicle/SUV/four wheel drive (car or minivan)/lit: recreational vehicle (RV) (usu. not camper or motor home)/


kanji: 百八
kana: ひゃくはち
entry:
(n) 108/one hundred and eight/the number of Kilesa, worldly thoughts and passions/the sum of 12 months, 24 seasons of the solar year, and 72 'climates' of one year


kanji: もーせの五書
kana: もーせのごしょ
entry:
モーセの五書 [モーセのごしょ] /(n,obsc) Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible, traditionally attributed to Moses)/


kanji: あまるな文書
kana: あまるなぶんしょ
entry:
アマルナ文書 [アマルナぶんしょ] /(n) Amarna letters (archive of Egyptian correspondence, recorded on clay tablets)/


kanji: 王朝時代
kana: おうちょうじだい
entry:
(n) Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate)


kanji: 桂園時代
kana: けいえんじだい
entry:
(n) Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)


kanji: 三国時代
kana: さんごくじだい
entry:
(n) Three Kingdoms period (of Chinese history, 220-280 CE)/Three Kingdoms period (of Korean history, 4th-7th centuries CE)


kanji: 大空位時代
kana: だいくういじだい
entry:
(n) Great Interregnum (gap between Hohenstaufen and Habsburg rule of the Holy Roman Empire, approx. 1254-1273 CE)


kanji: 吉野朝時代
kana: よしのちょうじだい
entry:
(n,obsc) Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)


kanji: かんぶりあ系
kana: かんぶりあけい
entry:
カンブリア系 [カンブリアけい] /(n,adj-no) Cambrian system (i.e. rock layer deposited during the Cambrian period)/


kanji: きり番
kana: きりばん
entry:
キリ番 [キリばん] /(n) good turning point number (10000, 12345 etc., often referring to web site visit counts)/


kanji: きり番
kana: きりばん
entry:
キリ番 [きりばん] /(n) good turning point number (10000, 12345 etc., often referring to web site visit counts)/


kanji: 切り番
kana: きりばん
entry:
切り番 [キリばん] /(n) good turning point number (10000, 12345 etc., often referring to web site visit counts)/


kana: きりりく
entry:
キリリク /(n,col) lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000)/


kanji: 黒雷鳥
kana: くろらいちょう
entry:
黒雷鳥 [クロライチョウ] /(n,uk) black grouse (Tetrao tetrix)/blackcock (male black grouse)/greyhen (female black grouse)/


kanji: かのぽす壺
kana: かのぽすつぼ
entry:
カノポス壺 [カノポスつぼ] /(n) Canopic jar/Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)/


kanji: かのぽす壺
kana: かのぷすつぼ
entry:
カノポス壺 [カノプスつぼ] /(n) Canopic jar/Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)/


kanji: かのぽす壺
kana: かのーぷすつぼ
entry:
カノポス壺 [カノープスつぼ] /(n) Canopic jar/Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)/


kanji: かのぷす壺
kana: かのぽすつぼ
entry:
カノプス壺 [カノポスつぼ] /(n) Canopic jar/Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)/


kanji: かのぷす壺
kana: かのぷすつぼ
entry:
カノプス壺 [カノプスつぼ] /(n) Canopic jar/Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)/


kanji: かのぷす壺
kana: かのーぷすつぼ
entry:
カノプス壺 [カノープスつぼ] /(n) Canopic jar/Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)/


kanji: かのーぷす壺
kana: かのぽすつぼ
entry:
カノープス壺 [カノポスつぼ] /(n) Canopic jar/Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)/


kanji: かのーぷす壺
kana: かのぷすつぼ
entry:
カノープス壺 [カノプスつぼ] /(n) Canopic jar/Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)/


kanji: かのーぷす壺
kana: かのーぷすつぼ
entry:
カノープス壺 [カノープスつぼ] /(n) Canopic jar/Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)/


kanji: 復古神道
kana: ふっこしんとう
entry:
(n) Fukko Shinto/Restoration Shinto/Reform Shinto (prominent 18th century form of Shinto, based on the classics, and free from Confucian and Buddhist influences)


kanji: お雇い外国人
kana: おやといがいこくじん
entry:
(n) hired foreigners/foreign advisors hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era


kanji: 五蘊
kana: ごうん
entry:
(n) the five skandhas (the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness)


kanji: 印可
kana: いんか
entry:
(n,vs) dharma transmission (formal confirmation of a student's awakening by his master)/certificate of proficiency (in flower arrangement, etc.)


kana: ぼんぼん
entry:
(adv,adv-to,n,abbr) fiercely (e.g. of a fire burning)/bong-bong (of clock ringing)/with repeated bangs (e.g. of fire cracker)/striking clock/green young man from a well-to-do family


kanji: 神風たくしー
kana: かみかぜたくしー
entry:
神風タクシー [かみかぜタクシー] /(n,col) kamikaze taxi (1960s term for taxis that fail to heed traffic regulations)/


kanji: 側生動物
kana: そくせいどうぶつ
entry:
(n) parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)


kanji: 掛絡
kana: から
entry:
(n,arch) Zen monk's waistcoat (a short, informal kasaya)/ring (usu. made of ivory) attached to this waistcoat/netsuke/item attached to a netsuke


kanji: 言わでもの事
kana: いわでものこと
entry:
(exp,n) something that goes without saying/something that needn't be said/something that should rather be left unsaid


kanji: 五大老
kana: ごたいろう
entry:
(n) Council of Five Elders (committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age)


kanji: あほ毛
kana: あほげ
entry:
アホ毛 [アホげ] /(n,m-sl) long spike (or 'antenna') of hair, may do tricks (seen in anime and manga)/frizz/short tufts springing up from hair surface here and there/


kanji: 架ける
kana: かける
entry:
(v1,vt,uk) to suspend between two points/to build (a bridge, etc.)/to put up on something (e.g. legs up on table)


kanji: 庭見草
kana: にわみぐさ
entry:
(n,obsc) bush clover/Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza)/Japanese fiber banana (Musa basjoo)


kanji: 虎の尾
kana: とらのお
entry:
(n,uk) tiger's tail/gooseneck loosestrife (species of flowering plant, Lysimachia clethroides)/Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort)


kanji: 禊萩
kana: みそはぎ
entry:
(n,uk) Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife closely related to purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria)


kanji: 禊萩
kana: みそはぎ
entry:
禊萩 [ミソハギ] /(n,uk) Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife closely related to purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria)/


kanji: 禊萩
kana: みぞはぎ
entry:
禊萩 [ミゾハギ] /(n,uk) Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife closely related to purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria)/


kanji: 溝萩
kana: みそはぎ
entry:
溝萩 [ミソハギ] /(n,uk) Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife closely related to purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria)/


kanji: 溝萩
kana: みぞはぎ
entry:
溝萩 [ミゾハギ] /(n,uk) Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife closely related to purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria)/


kanji: 刀布
kana: とうふ
entry:
(n) bronze currency of ancient China (some pieces shaped like spades and others like opened straight razors)


kana: ほーすからーたいぷ
entry:
ホースカラータイプ /(n) type of scuba buoyancy control device with a front-mounted air bladder/front-mounted BCD/


kana: じゃけっとたいぷ
entry:
ジャケットタイプ /(n) jacket type (e.g. a style of clothing)/jacket-style buoyancy control device (BCD) shaped like a sleeveless coat/


kanji: 廬山会議
kana: ろざんかいぎ
entry:
(n) Lushan Conference (1959 meeting of the Communist Party of China to discuss the Great Leap Forward)


kanji: 南都七大寺
kana: なんとしちだいじ
entry:
(n) the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)


kanji: 七大寺
kana: しちだいじ
entry:
(n,obsc) the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)


kanji: 蝦夷鼯鼠
kana: えぞももんが
entry:
蝦夷鼯鼠 [エゾモモンガ] /(n,uk) Pteromys volans orii (subspecies of the Siberian flying squirrel, endemic to Hokkaido)/


kana: おくとぱす
entry:
オクトパス /(n,abbr) octopus/octopus regulator/alternate 2nd stage air pressure regulator used as an alternate air source in an emergency/


kana: まい
entry:
(aux) probably isn't (doesn't, won't, etc.)/don't (doesn't) intend to/intend not to/must not/(when used in an imperative sentence) don't


kana: ますくすくいず
entry:
マスクスクイズ /(n) unequal pressure between the mask air space and the vascular pressure within the blood vessels of the face/


kana: ませんか
entry:
(exp,pol) (used to ask a question in the negative) won't (hasn't, isn't, doesn't, etc.)/(used to make invitations, express desires or give indirect commands) won't you/(P)


kana: ないか
entry:
(exp) (used to ask a question in the negative) won't (hasn't, isn't, doesn't, etc.)/(used to make invitations, express desires or give indirect commands) won't you


kana: ます
entry:
(aux-v,pol,arch,hum) used to indicate respect for the listener (or reader)/used to indicate respect for those affected by the action


kana: ましょう
entry:
(exp,pol) (used to express the speaker's volition) I'll/(used to make an invitation, request, etc.) let's/(used to express a conjecture) probably


kana: ましょ
entry:
(exp,pol,ik) (used to express the speaker's volition) I'll/(used to make an invitation, request, etc.) let's/(used to express a conjecture) probably


kana: ませ
entry:
(aux,pol) (used to make a polite request or demand) please/used to increase the politeness of a greeting, apology, etc.


kana: ますくぶろー
entry:
マスクブロー /(vs) blowing air into a dive mask through the nose to clear out the water or equalize the pressure/


kanji: 保護すーつ
kana: ほごすーつ
entry:
保護スーツ [ほごスーツ] /(n) diver's exposure suit/body suits, wet suits, and dry suits/suit which protects divers from exposure and abrasion/


kana: れくりぇーしょなるだいびんぐ
entry:
レクリェーショナルダイビング /(n) recreational diving/no decompression stop diving/diving at depths which do not exceed 40 meters or 130 feet/


kana: へりおっくす
entry:
ヘリオックス /(n) heliox/gas mixture of helium and oxygen/often hypoxic gas mix used by divers/medical gas used for its low density and easy breathing/


kanji: 手を挙げる
kana: てをあげる
entry:
(exp,v1) to raise one's hand or hands/to surrender/to raise a hand to someone (as a threat to strike)/to improve


kanji: 二十二社
kana: にじゅうにしゃ
entry:
(n) The Twenty-Two Shrines (the 22 most important Shinto shrines, as designated during the Heian period)


kanji: 一通り揃う
kana: ひととおりそろう
entry:
(exp,v5u) to have the (full, general) selection available/to have (a lineup) from A to Z/to have the full array of


kanji: 情けは人の為ならず
kana: なさけはひとのためならず
entry:
(n,id) the good you do for others is good you do yourself/lit: compassion is not for other people's benefit


kanji: お見知り置き
kana: おみしりおき
entry:
(exp) pleased to make your acquaintance (formal phrase used on first meeting someone to encourage them to remember you)


kanji: 山帰来
kana: さんきらい
entry:
山帰来 [サンキライ] /(n,uk,col) Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla)/Smilax china (species of sarsaparilla)/


kanji: 山奇量
kana: さんきらい
entry:
山奇量 [サンキライ] /(n,uk,col) Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla)/Smilax china (species of sarsaparilla)/


kanji: 土茯苓
kana: どぶくりょう
entry:
(n,obsc) Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla, used esp. to refer to its dried rhizome, used in Chinese medicine)


kanji: 蝦夷黒貂
kana: えぞくろてん
entry:
蝦夷黒貂 [エゾクロテン] /(n,uk) Japanese sable (subspecies of sable native to Hokkaido, Martes zibellina brachyura)/


kana: のーうぇいと
entry:
ノーウェイト /(n,abbr) no wait state memory (memory the CPU can access without requiring wait states)/instant (e.g. for display speed of text in computer games)/


kana: のーうえいと
entry:
ノーウエイト /(n,abbr) no wait state memory (memory the CPU can access without requiring wait states)/instant (e.g. for display speed of text in computer games)/


kanji: 丸山わくちん
kana: まるやまわくちん
entry:
丸山ワクチン [まるやまワクチン] /(n) Maruyama vaccine (said to be effective against leprosy, cancer and cutaneous tuberculosis)/


kanji: お忍び
kana: おしのび
entry:
(n,abbr) travelling incognito (traveling)/special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito


kanji: くの字点
kana: くのじてん
entry:
(n) iteration mark shaped like the hiragana "ku" (used in vertical writing to represent repetition of two or more characters)


kanji: 二の字点
kana: にのじてん
entry:
(n) iteration mark used to represent repetition of the previous kanji (to be read using its kun-yomi)


kana: べ
entry:
(aux,suf) word used at sentence-end (like a particle) to indicate speculation, volition or invitation/familiar suffix used after a personal name


kanji: 彰義隊
kana: しょうぎたい
entry:
(n) Shogitai (group of former Tokugawa retainers opposed to the Meiji government who fought in the battle of Ueno)


kanji: 十五年戦争
kana: じゅうごねんせんそう
entry:
(n) Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)


kanji: たら戦争
kana: たらせんそう
entry:
タラ戦争 [タラせんそう] /(n) Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))/


kanji: たら戦争
kana: たらせんそう
entry:
タラ戦争 [たらせんそう] /(n) Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))/


kanji: 鱈戦争
kana: たらせんそう
entry:
鱈戦争 [タラせんそう] /(n) Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))/


kanji: 鱈戦争
kana: たらせんそう
entry:
(n) Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))


kanji: 三国干渉
kana: さんごくかんしょう
entry:
(n) Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki)


kanji: かなだ藻
kana: かなだも
entry:
カナダ藻 [カナダも] /(n) waterweed (any aquatic plant of genus Elodea, esp. common waterweed, Elodea canadensis)/


kanji: なくても良い
kana: なくてもよい
entry:
(exp) (after neg. stem of verb) need not (verb)/(not) have to/expressing absence of obligation or necessity/need not have/need not exist


kanji: 蟠桃
kana: ばんとう
entry:
(n) donut peach (Amygdalus persica var. compressa)/UFO peach/flat peach/pan tao peach/Saturn peach/saucer peach


kanji: 蟠桃
kana: ばんとう
entry:
蟠桃 [バントウ] /(n) donut peach (Amygdalus persica var. compressa)/UFO peach/flat peach/pan tao peach/Saturn peach/saucer peach/


kanji: 子
kana: し
entry:
(n,hon,arch,n-suf) child (esp. a boy)/viscount/master (founder of a school of thought, esp. Confucius)/philosophy (branch of Chinese literature)/non-Confucian Hundred Schools of Thought writings


kanji: 糞人参
kana: くそにんじん
entry:
糞人参 [クソニンジン] /(n) annual mugwort (Artemisia annua)/annual wormwood/sweet sagewort/sweet Annie/sweet wormwood/


kanji: それ見ろ
kana: それみろ
entry:
(exp) Well, look at that... (used when someone ignores your advice and ultimately fails at something)


kanji: それ御覧
kana: それごらん
entry:
(exp,obsc) Well, look at that... (used when someone ignores your advice and ultimately fails at something)


kanji: 待遇表現
kana: たいぐうひょうげん
entry:
(n) attitudinal expression (indicating the speaker's respect, contempt, etc. for the listener or the person being discussed)


kanji: 美化語
kana: びかご
entry:
(n) more refined language through prefixing of "o-" or "-go" to words, and use of appropriate vocabulary


kanji: 其処許
kana: そこもと
entry:
(n,arch,pn,adj-no) that place/there/you (usu. used by samurai when speaking to their equals or inferiors)


kanji: 目にかかる
kana: めにかかる
entry:
(exp,v5r,arch) to meet (someone of higher status)/to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status)/to be visible/to be seen/to be noticed


kanji: 不徳の致すところ
kana: ふとくのいたすところ
entry:
(exp) (with an apologetic tone) undesirable state brought about by (my) lack of virtue/feeling morally responsible/mea culpa


kana: まーる
entry:
マール /(n) maar (broad, shallow volcanic crater)/marc (brandy distilled from pomace wine)/marl (unconsolidated lime-rich rock)/


kanji: 藍子
kana: あいご
entry:
藍子 [アイゴ] /(n,uk) mottled spinefoot (species of fish, Siganus fuscescens)/dusky rabbitfish/sandy spinefoot/


kanji: 九品
kana: くほん
entry:
(n,abbr) nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land/Amitabha's Pure Land/nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land


kanji: 元へ
kana: もとへ
entry:
(int) (in calisthenics) return to your original position!/er, rather (used in speech to correct yourself)


kanji: やるた秘密協定
kana: やるたひみつきょうてい
entry:
ヤルタ秘密協定 [ヤルタひみつきょうてい] /(n) The Yalta Agreement (secret American-British-Soviet agreement wherein the Soviets agreed to attack Japan within three months of the German surrender: Feb. 11, 1945)/


kanji: 習うより慣れよ
kana: ならうよりなれよ
entry:
(exp) practice makes perfect (implying that it is better to learn from personal experience than from an instructor)


kanji: 箇
kana: か
entry:
(ctr) counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted)/a noun read using its on-yomi


kanji: 箇
kana: か
entry:
箇 [カ] /(ctr) counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted)/a noun read using its on-yomi/


kanji: 個
kana: か
entry:
個 [カ] /(ctr) counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted)/a noun read using its on-yomi/


kanji: 个
kana: か
entry:
个 [カ] /(ctr) counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted)/a noun read using its on-yomi/


kana: ヶ
entry:
(ctr) (read as "ka") counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted)/a noun read using its on-yomi


kana: け
entry:
ケ /(ctr) (read as "ka") counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted)/a noun read using its on-yomi/


kanji: 箇
kana: つ
entry:
(ctr,uk) counter for the hito-futa-mi counting system (forming hitotsu, futatsu, mitsu, and misoji, yasoji, etc.)


kanji: 箇
kana: ち
entry:
(ctr,uk,ok) counter for the hito-futa-mi counting system (forming hitotsu, futatsu, mitsu, and misoji, yasoji, etc.)


kanji: ろしあ五人組
kana: ろしあごにんぐみ
entry:
ロシア五人組 [ロシアごにんぐみ] /(n) The Five (circle of Russian composers: Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin)/


kanji: 矢切りの渡し
kana: やぎりのわたし
entry:
(n) Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)


kanji: 桜桃忌
kana: おうとうき
entry:
(n) anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide


kanji: 口にちゃっく
kana: くちにちゃっく
entry:
口にチャック [くちにチャック] /(exp,col) zip it (when used to others)/I'll shut up (when used by oneself)/button (one's) lips/lit: (put a) zipper on (one's) mouth/


kanji: 締結日
kana: ていけつひ
entry:
(n) date of execution (e.g. of a contract)/agreement date (e.g. of a contract)/entering date (e.g. into treaty)


kanji: 枢
kana: くるる
entry:
(n) pivot hinge (using extensions on the top &amp; bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)/sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)


kanji: 枢
kana: とまら
entry:
(n) extensions on the top &amp; bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge)


kanji: 金魚藻
kana: きんぎょも
entry:
(n,col) Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum)/aquatic plants such as hornwort that are commonly used in goldfish tanks, etc.


kanji: 大鷹
kana: おおたか
entry:
(n,uk,abbr) northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)/female hawk (or falcon)/falconry (using a northern goshawk)


kanji: 大鷹
kana: おおたか
entry:
大鷹 [オオタカ] /(n,uk,abbr) northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)/female hawk (or falcon)/falconry (using a northern goshawk)/


kanji: 火車
kana: かしゃ
entry:
(n,abbr,arch) fiery chariot/kasha (mythical beast said to devour dead bodies)/(in China) train (i.e. steam locomotive)/vile old hag


kanji: 親とも
kana: おやとも
entry:
親トモ [おやトモ] /(n,obsc,sl) keitai-mail friend (someone one keeps in touch with only by typing messages with one's thumb)/


kanji: 珍走団
kana: ちんそうだん
entry:
(n) (used as a replacement for "bosozoku", which has a 'cool' image) biker gang/group of hot-rodders


kanji: 付す
kana: ふす
entry:
(v5s,vt) to affix/to append/to attach/to entrust/to refer/to handle (as such)/to follow (the leader)/to submit (a document, etc.)


kanji: 六義
kana: りくぎ
entry:
(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)


kanji: 偽瓢虫
kana: てんとうむしだまし
entry:
(n,uk,col) handsome fungus beetle (any beetle of family Endomychidae)/28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)


kanji: 偽瓢虫
kana: てんとうむしだまし
entry:
偽瓢虫 [テントウムシダマシ] /(n,uk,col) handsome fungus beetle (any beetle of family Endomychidae)/28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)/


kanji: 朔
kana: さく
entry:
(n) new moon/first day of the lunar month/(in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)


kanji: 近点
kana: きんてん
entry:
(n,adj-no) near point (closest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye)/periapsis


kanji: 朝日る
kana: あさひる
entry:
朝日る [アサヒる] /(v5r,uk,sl) to fabricate (stories) (based on alleged behaviour of the Asahi newspaper)/to make up/


kanji: 産む機械
kana: うむきかい
entry:
(exp) baby-making machine (famously used by Health, Labour and Welfare Minister Yanagisawa Hakuo to refer to women)


kanji: 恐いもの見たさ
kana: こわいものみたさ
entry:
(exp) rubbernecking/the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant


kanji: 関心を呼ぶ
kana: かんしんをよぶ
entry:
(exp,v5b) to be the subject of attention/to call people's attention/to be the rage/to be of interest


kanji: 足を棒にして
kana: あしをぼうにして
entry:
(exp) (e.g. to walk, stand, etc., until) one's legs turn to lead/(doing something) until one's legs tire and stiffen


kanji: くらぶ活動
kana: くらぶかつどう
entry:
クラブ活動 [クラブかつどう] /(n) club activities (usu. clubs in association with a school)/extracurricular activities/(P)/


kanji: うぉーれす線
kana: うぉーれすせん
entry:
ウォーレス線 [ウォーレスせん] /(n) Wallace's line (hypothetical line separating the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions)/


kanji: 府
kana: ふ
entry:
(n) (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)/the centre or seat (of) (center)/(government) office


kanji: 五右衛門風呂
kana: ごえもんぶろ
entry:
(n) bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)


kanji: 総秘書
kana: そうひしょ
entry:
(n,obsc) general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea)/secretary-general


kanji: 鏑
kana: かぶら
entry:
(n,abbr) turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired)/arrow with such a whistle attached


kanji: 八目
kana: やつめ
entry:
(n,abbr) eighth (place, position, etc.)/having eight eyes/having many eyes/(of a fabric) having a loose knit/lamprey/eight-holed arrow whistle


kanji: 採れる
kana: とれる
entry:
(v1) to be collected/to be gathered (e.g. mushrooms, etc.)/to be harvested/to be mined/to be able to collect/to be able to mine


kanji: 獲れる
kana: とれる
entry:
(v1) to be harvested/to be reaped/to be yielded/to be able to harvest/to be able to reap/to be able to yield


kanji: 臣
kana: おみ
entry:
(n,arch,hum) retainer/attendant/Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight)/I (used by a servant when speaking to his master)


kanji: 連
kana: むらじ
entry:
(n,arch) Muraji (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to seventh highest of eight)


kanji: 撥鬢
kana: ばちびん
entry:
(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)


kanji: 八識
kana: はっしき
entry:
(n) eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness)


kanji: 労働三法
kana: ろうどうさんぽう
entry:
(n) the three labor laws (trade union law, labor standards law, labor relations adjustment law) (labour)


kanji: 彼岸桜
kana: ひがんざくら
entry:
(n,uk,col) higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella)/early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox)/double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)


kanji: 彼岸桜
kana: ひがんざくら
entry:
彼岸桜 [ヒガンザクラ] /(n,uk,col) higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella)/early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox)/double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)/


kanji: 樺桜
kana: かばざくら
entry:
(n,uk,arch) ornamental variety of double weeping rosebud cherry/any cherry tree with birch-like bark/Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)


kanji: 針桑
kana: はりぐわ
entry:
針桑 [ハリグワ] /(n,uk) storehousebush (Cudrania tricuspidata)/mandarin melon berry/silkworm thorn/cudrang/


kanji: 柘
kana: はりぐわ
entry:
柘 [ハリグワ] /(n,uk) storehousebush (Cudrania tricuspidata)/mandarin melon berry/silkworm thorn/cudrang/


kanji: お里が知れる
kana: おさとがしれる
entry:
(exp,v1) to reveal one's upbringing (through one's words, actions, etc.)/to betray one's origin/to give oneself away


kanji: 洗い替え
kana: あらいがえ
entry:
(n,arch) exchanging clothing at the time of laundering/(money) laundering/moving average method of valuation/reassessing


kanji: 瓠
kana: ふくべ
entry:
(n,uk) Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd)/gourd (container) made from its fruit/Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd)


kanji: 坊
kana: ぼう
entry:
(n,suf) bonze/monk/monk's dwelling/(vocative) boy/sonny/I (used by male children)/me/(after name) familiar form of address/person who is ..


kanji: 胡琴
kana: こきん
entry:
(n,arch) huqin (any Chinese string instrument played with a bow)/biwa (4 or 5-stringed Oriental lute)


kanji: 五胡
kana: ごこ
entry:
(n) Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China between the 3rd &amp; 5th centuries: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)


kanji: 五胡十六国
kana: ごこじゅうろっこく
entry:
(n) Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China from 304 to 439 CE)/Sixteen Kingdoms period


kanji: 嬢さん
kana: じょうさん
entry:
(n,n-suf,hon) daughter (may be used a honorific after name)/young lady (esp. of respectable upbringing) (may be used a honorific after name)


kanji: 白蝶
kana: しろちょう
entry:
白蝶 [シロチョウ] /(n,uk) any butterfly of family Pieridae (inc. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)/


kanji: 爺さん
kana: じいさん
entry:
(n) grandfather (may be used after name as honorific)/male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)/(P)


kanji: 蜻蜓
kana: やんま
entry:
(n,uk,oK) darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae)/devil's darning needle/dragonfly (esp. a large one)


kanji: 蜻蜓
kana: やんま
entry:
蜻蜓 [ヤンマ] /(n,uk,oK) darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae)/devil's darning needle/dragonfly (esp. a large one)/


kanji: 七節
kana: ななふし
entry:
七節 [ナナフシ] /(n,uk) walking stick (any insect of order Phasmatodea)/walkingstick/stick insect/leaf insect/


kanji: 竹節虫
kana: ななふし
entry:
竹節虫 [ナナフシ] /(n,uk) walking stick (any insect of order Phasmatodea)/walkingstick/stick insect/leaf insect/


kanji: 進学校
kana: しんがくこう
entry:
(n) school centred on preparing students to get into university/high-level school a person has entered


kanji: 三易
kana: さんえき
entry:
(n) three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)


kanji: 蓍
kana: めど
entry:
(n,arch) Chinese lespedeza (species of bush clover, Lespedeza cuneata)/fortune-telling (using divination sticks)


kanji: 筆降ろし
kana: ふでおろし
entry:
(n,vs) first use of a new brush/doing something for the first time/young man's first sexual experience, esp. one initiated by an older woman


kanji: 一貫教育校
kana: いっかんきょういくこう
entry:
(n) integrated set of schools that offers education from one stage to the next without taking extrance exams en route


kanji: 手纏
kana: たまき
entry:
(n,arch) bracelet (made of stringed jewels or bells and worn at the elbow)/bracer (for the elbow of an archer)


kanji: えすかれーたー校
kana: えすかれーたーこう
entry:
エスカレーター校 [エスカレーターこう] /(n,col) private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route/


kanji: えすかれーたー校
kana: えすかれーたこう
entry:
エスカレーター校 [エスカレータこう] /(n,col) private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route/


kanji: えすかれーた校
kana: えすかれーたーこう
entry:
エスカレータ校 [エスカレーターこう] /(n,col) private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route/


kanji: えすかれーた校
kana: えすかれーたこう
entry:
エスカレータ校 [エスカレータこう] /(n,col) private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route/


kanji: えすかれーたー学校
kana: えすかれーたーがっこう
entry:
エスカレーター学校 [エスカレーターがっこう] /(n,col) private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route/


kanji: えすかれーたー学校
kana: えすかれーたがっこう
entry:
エスカレーター学校 [エスカレータがっこう] /(n,col) private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route/


kanji: えすかれーた学校
kana: えすかれーたーがっこう
entry:
エスカレータ学校 [エスカレーターがっこう] /(n,col) private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route/


kanji: えすかれーた学校
kana: えすかれーたがっこう
entry:
エスカレータ学校 [エスカレータがっこう] /(n,col) private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route/


kanji: 金腹
kana: きんぱら
entry:
金腹 [キンパラ] /(n,uk) chestnut munia (species of passerine bird, Lonchura atricapilla)/black-headed munia/


kana: へろへろ
entry:
ヘロヘロ /(adj-na,adv-to,vs) completely exhausted/dog-tired/dreadfully weary/terribly frustrated/limp/weak/flimsy/


kana: へろへろ
entry:
(adj-na,adv-to,vs) completely exhausted/dog-tired/dreadfully weary/terribly frustrated/limp/weak/flimsy


kana: ばつ
entry:
(n,adj-no) one's circumstances or condition, esp. compared to that of another/coherence (e.g. of a conversation)


kanji: 四衆
kana: ししゅ
entry:
(n) four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)/four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices)


kanji: 七衆
kana: しちしゅ
entry:
(n) seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees)


kanji: お蔵
kana: おくら
entry:
(n) shelving (a play, movie, etc.)/closing down/cancelling/canceling/the shelf/rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate


kanji: お蔵
kana: おくら
entry:
お蔵 [オクラ] /(n) shelving (a play, movie, etc.)/closing down/cancelling/canceling/the shelf/rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate/


kanji: お倉
kana: おくら
entry:
お倉 [オクラ] /(n) shelving (a play, movie, etc.)/closing down/cancelling/canceling/the shelf/rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate/


kanji: 御蔵
kana: おくら
entry:
御蔵 [オクラ] /(n) shelving (a play, movie, etc.)/closing down/cancelling/canceling/the shelf/rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate/


kanji: 御倉
kana: おくら
entry:
御倉 [オクラ] /(n) shelving (a play, movie, etc.)/closing down/cancelling/canceling/the shelf/rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate/


kana: けち
entry:
(n,adj-na) stinginess/miserliness/penny-pinching/cheesparing/miser/pinchpenny/skinflint/cheapskate/tightwad/niggard/shabby/cheap/mangy/poor/petty/narrow-minded/quibbling


kanji: 多羅葉
kana: たらよう
entry:
(n,uk) lusterleaf holly (Ilex latifolia)/pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)


kanji: 竜灯
kana: りゅうとう
entry:
(n) phosphorescent lights seen at sea at night/the lights that can be seen on the altar of gods,intended as an offering


kanji: 脱おたく
kana: だつおたく
entry:
脱オタク [だつオタク] /(n) ex-nerd/one who has given up geeky or nerdy hobbies/one who has given up stereotypically geeky dress, mannerisms, etc./


kanji: やめ検
kana: やめけん
entry:
ヤメ検 [ヤメけん] /(n,abbr,col) former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer/retired public prosecutor/


kanji: やめ検
kana: やめけん
entry:
ヤメ検 [やめけん] /(n,abbr,col) former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer/retired public prosecutor/


kanji: やめ検
kana: やめけん
entry:
やめ検 [ヤメけん] /(n,abbr,col) former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer/retired public prosecutor/


kanji: やめ検弁護士
kana: やめけんべんごし
entry:
ヤメ検弁護士 [ヤメけんべんごし] /(n,col) former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer/prosecutor-turned-lawyer/


kanji: やめ検弁護士
kana: やめけんべんごし
entry:
ヤメ検弁護士 [やめけんべんごし] /(n,col) former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer/prosecutor-turned-lawyer/


kanji: やめ検弁護士
kana: やめけんべんごし
entry:
やめ検弁護士 [ヤメけんべんごし] /(n,col) former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer/prosecutor-turned-lawyer/


kana: いもびらいざー
entry:
イモビライザー /(n) immobiliser (electronic device that prevents an automobile engine from running without the key)/immobilizer/


kanji: 鉈鎌
kana: なたがま
entry:
(n,uk) billhook/fascine knife/sickle-shaped tool with a sharp inner edge, halfway between a knife and an axe


kanji: のりの良い
kana: のりのいい
entry:
ノリの良い [ノリのいい] /(adj-i,uk) easy to get into (e.g. of music, etc.)/easily getting into (a certain mood, etc.)/


kanji: のりが悪い
kana: のりがわるい
entry:
ノリが悪い [ノリがわるい] /(exp) difficult to get into/not be easily influenced into joining some mood or activity/


kanji: あくの強い
kana: あくのつよい
entry:
(adj-i) harsh tasting/strongly alkaline tasting/excessively strong-willed/fiercely individualistic/strongly idiosyncratic


kanji: 日本語でおｋ
kana: にほんごでおっけー
entry:
日本語でおｋ [にほんごでオッケー] /(exp,sl) Is that Japanese? (implies the message being replied to is nonsensical)/Can I have that in Japanese?/


kana: のっぺらぼう
entry:
(adj-na,n) smooth/flat/lacking bumps and dents/featureless/uneventful/mythical being with flat featureless face


kanji: 宝探し
kana: たからさがし
entry:
(n) treasure hunting/lucky dip/game involving finding hidden prizes from a sand box, barrel of leaves, etc.


kanji: 爵
kana: しゃく
entry:
(n) jue (ancient 3-legged Chinese wine pitcher, usu. made of bronze)/peerage (hereditary title bestowed by the emperor)


kanji: 爵
kana: さく
entry:
(n,ok) jue (ancient 3-legged Chinese wine pitcher, usu. made of bronze)/peerage (hereditary title bestowed by the emperor)


kanji: 気がとがめる
kana: きがとがめる
entry:
(exp,v1) to feel guilty/to suffer from a guilty conscience/to feel uneasy/to have qualms about/to have scruples about/to feel regret


kanji: 泉門
kana: せんもん
entry:
(n) soft spot (in the skull of an infant)/fontanelle/fontanel/gates of Hades/entrance to the underworld


kanji: かめら小僧
kana: かめらこぞう
entry:
カメラ小僧 [カメラこぞう] /(n) photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions/


kana: かめこ
entry:
カメコ /(n,abbr) photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions/


kanji: 応鐘
kana: おうしょう
entry:
(n) (in China) 12th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C sharp)/tenth month of the lunar calendar


kanji: 無射
kana: ぶえき
entry:
(n) (in China) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C)/ninth month of the lunar calendar


kanji: 南呂
kana: なんりょ
entry:
(n) (in China) 10th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. B)/eighth month of the lunar calendar


kanji: 鸞鏡
kana: らんきょう
entry:
(n) mirror with a mythical Chinese bird carved into the back/(in Japan) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp)


kanji: 唐楽
kana: とうがく
entry:
(n) Tang-era Chinese music/style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance


kanji: 呂旋
kana: りょせん
entry:
(n) Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: so, la, ti, do, re, mi, fa), similar to Mixolydian mode


kanji: 律旋法
kana: りつせんぽう
entry:
(n) Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) similar to Dorian mode


kanji: 双調
kana: そうじょう
entry:
(n) (in Japan) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G)/(in gagaku) scale similar to Mixolydian mode on G


kanji: 勝絶
kana: しょうせつ
entry:
(n,arch,vs) (in Japan) 4th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F)/excellence (of scenery, etc.)


kanji: 平調
kana: ひょうじょう
entry:
(n) (in Japan) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E)/(in gagaku) scale similar to the Dorian mode on E


kanji: 六調子
kana: ろくちょうし
entry:
(n) six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian)


kanji: 呂
kana: りょ
entry:
(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)


kanji: 糠蝿
kana: ぬかばえ
entry:
(n,obsc) biting midge (any insect of family Ceratopogonidae)/no-see-um/plant hopper (any insect of family Delphacidae)


kanji: 楓鳥
kana: かえでちょう
entry:
(n,uk) black-rumped waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes)/estrildid (any bird of family Estrildidae)/waxbill


kanji: 楓鳥
kana: かえでちょう
entry:
楓鳥 [カエデチョウ] /(n,uk) black-rumped waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes)/estrildid (any bird of family Estrildidae)/waxbill/


kanji: 縞蠅
kana: しまばえ
entry:
縞蠅 [シマバエ] /(n,uk) lauxaniid fly (any fly of family Lauxaniidae)/flesh fly (any fly of family Sarcophagidae)/


kanji: 縞蝿
kana: しまばえ
entry:
縞蝿 [シマバエ] /(n,uk) lauxaniid fly (any fly of family Lauxaniidae)/flesh fly (any fly of family Sarcophagidae)/


kanji: 大麻蠅
kana: しまばえ
entry:
大麻蠅 [シマバエ] /(n,uk) lauxaniid fly (any fly of family Lauxaniidae)/flesh fly (any fly of family Sarcophagidae)/


kanji: 大麻蝿
kana: しまばえ
entry:
大麻蝿 [シマバエ] /(n,uk) lauxaniid fly (any fly of family Lauxaniidae)/flesh fly (any fly of family Sarcophagidae)/


kanji: 雲梯
kana: うんてい
entry:
(n) overhead ladder/horizontal ladder/monkey bars/yunti (scaling ladder used for escalade in ancient China)


kanji: 蜘蛛海星
kana: くもひとで
entry:
(n,uk) brittle star (any starfish-like echinoderm of the order Ophiuroidea)/brittlestar/Ophioplocus japonicus (species of brittlestar)


kanji: 蜘蛛海星
kana: くもひとで
entry:
蜘蛛海星 [クモヒトデ] /(n,uk) brittle star (any starfish-like echinoderm of the order Ophiuroidea)/brittlestar/Ophioplocus japonicus (species of brittlestar)/


kanji: 蜘蛛人手
kana: くもひとで
entry:
蜘蛛人手 [クモヒトデ] /(n,uk) brittle star (any starfish-like echinoderm of the order Ophiuroidea)/brittlestar/Ophioplocus japonicus (species of brittlestar)/


kanji: 白し
kana: びゃくし
entry:
(n,uk) bai zhi (Chinese name for angelica species Angelica dahurica)/traditional Chinese cure made from the root of this plant/Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed)


kanji: 白し
kana: びゃくし
entry:
白し [ビャクシ] /(n,uk) bai zhi (Chinese name for angelica species Angelica dahurica)/traditional Chinese cure made from the root of this plant/Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed)/


kanji: 白芷
kana: びゃくし
entry:
(n,uk,oK) bai zhi (Chinese name for angelica species Angelica dahurica)/traditional Chinese cure made from the root of this plant/Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed)


kanji: 白芷
kana: びゃくし
entry:
白芷 [ビャクシ] /(n,uk,oK) bai zhi (Chinese name for angelica species Angelica dahurica)/traditional Chinese cure made from the root of this plant/Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed)/


kanji: 能無し犬の高吠え
kana: のうなしいぬのたかぼえ
entry:
(exp,id,obsc) a barking dog seldom bites (meaning those who make the most noise have the least talent)


kanji: 幽霊蜘蛛
kana: ゆうれいぐも
entry:
(n,uk,col) pholcid spider (any spider of family Pholcidae, esp. species Pholcus crypticolens)/harvestman/daddy longlegs


kanji: 幽霊蜘蛛
kana: ゆうれいぐも
entry:
幽霊蜘蛛 [ユウレイグモ] /(n,uk,col) pholcid spider (any spider of family Pholcidae, esp. species Pholcus crypticolens)/harvestman/daddy longlegs/


kanji: 袋蜘蛛
kana: ふくろぐも
entry:
(n,uk) sac spider (any spider of family Clubionidae)/Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider)


kanji: 袋蜘蛛
kana: ふくろぐも
entry:
袋蜘蛛 [フクログモ] /(n,uk) sac spider (any spider of family Clubionidae)/Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider)/


kanji: 戸閉蜘蛛
kana: とたてぐも
entry:
(n,uk) trapdoor spider (any spider of family Ctenizidae)/folding trapdoor spider (any spider of family Antrodiaetidae)


kanji: 戸閉蜘蛛
kana: とたてぐも
entry:
戸閉蜘蛛 [トタテグモ] /(n,uk) trapdoor spider (any spider of family Ctenizidae)/folding trapdoor spider (any spider of family Antrodiaetidae)/


kanji: 戸立蜘蛛
kana: とたてぐも
entry:
戸立蜘蛛 [トタテグモ] /(n,uk) trapdoor spider (any spider of family Ctenizidae)/folding trapdoor spider (any spider of family Antrodiaetidae)/


kanji: 土蜘蛛
kana: つちぐも
entry:
(n,uk) Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider)/tsuchigumo (people of ancient Japan who were not subjects of the Yamato court)


kanji: きも可愛い
kana: きもかわいい
entry:
きも可愛い [キモかわいい] /(adj-f,sl,col) being both repellant and attractive at the same time/being both cute and disgusting/


kanji: きも可愛い
kana: きもかわいい
entry:
きも可愛い [キモカワイイ] /(adj-f,sl,col) being both repellant and attractive at the same time/being both cute and disgusting/


kanji: きも可愛い
kana: きもかわいい
entry:
キモ可愛い [きもかわいい] /(adj-f,sl,col) being both repellant and attractive at the same time/being both cute and disgusting/


kanji: きも可愛い
kana: きもかわいい
entry:
キモ可愛い [キモかわいい] /(adj-f,sl,col) being both repellant and attractive at the same time/being both cute and disgusting/


kanji: きも可愛い
kana: きもかわいい
entry:
キモ可愛い [キモカワイイ] /(adj-f,sl,col) being both repellant and attractive at the same time/being both cute and disgusting/


kanji: 日本住血吸虫症
kana: にほんじゅうけつきゅうちゅうしょう
entry:
(n) schistosomiasis japonica (form of bilharzia caused by the Oriental blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum)


kanji: 日本住血吸虫病
kana: にほんじゅうけつきゅうちゅうびょう
entry:
(n,obsc) schistosomiasis japonica (form of bilharzia caused by the Oriental blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum)


kana: たまかい
entry:
タマカイ /(n) giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus)/brindle bass/bumblebee grouper/Queensland grouper/


kanji: 諸子
kana: もろこ
entry:
(n,uk) gudgeon (any fish of genus Gnathopogon or related genera)/willow gudgeon (Gnathopogon caerulescens)/longtooth grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus bruneus)


kanji: 諸子
kana: もろこ
entry:
諸子 [モロコ] /(n,uk) gudgeon (any fish of genus Gnathopogon or related genera)/willow gudgeon (Gnathopogon caerulescens)/longtooth grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus bruneus)/


kanji: 鎌柄
kana: かまつか
entry:
(n,uk) sickle handle/goby minnow (Pseudogobio esocinus)/Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa)/Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis)/Joseph's-coat (species of amaranth, Amaranthus tricolor)


kanji: 鎌柄
kana: かまつか
entry:
鎌柄 [カマツカ] /(n,uk) sickle handle/goby minnow (Pseudogobio esocinus)/Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa)/Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis)/Joseph's-coat (species of amaranth, Amaranthus tricolor)/


kanji: 求仙
kana: きゅうせん
entry:
求仙 [キュウセン] /(n,uk) multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus)/


kanji: 九仙
kana: きゅうせん
entry:
九仙 [キュウセン] /(n,uk) multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus)/


kanji: 気宇仙
kana: きゅうせん
entry:
気宇仙 [キュウセン] /(n,uk) multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus)/


kanji: 皇御孫
kana: すめみま
entry:
(n,arch) grandchild of Amaterasu (i.e. Ninigi no Mikoto)/descendant of Amaterasu/person of imperial lineage/emperor


kanji: 折衷尺
kana: せっちゅうじゃく
entry:
(n,arch) compromised shaku (compromise between the Kyouhou shaku and the Matajirou shaku; approx. 30.3 cm)


kanji: 真経津の鏡
kana: まふつのかがみ
entry:
(n,arch,obsc) mirror/Mafutsu no Kagami (alternate name for Yata no Kagami, the mirror of the Imperial regalia)


kanji: 天叢雲剣
kana: あまのむらくものつるぎ
entry:
(n) Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi (heavenly gathering of clouds sword; one of the three Imperial regalia)


kanji: 叢雲剣
kana: むらくものつるぎ
entry:
(n,obsc) Murakumo no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia)


kanji: 草薙の剣
kana: くさなぎのつるぎ
entry:
(n) Kusanagi no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia)/grass-mowing sword


kanji: 八尺瓊勾玉
kana: やさかにのまがたま
entry:
(n,arch) large jewel/string of jewels/Yasakani no Magatama (the grand jewel or string of jewels; one of the three Imperial regalia)


kanji: 八咫烏
kana: やたがらす
entry:
(n) Yatagarasu (mythical raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition)/three-legged crow inhabiting the sun in Chinese mythology


kanji: 八咫の烏
kana: やたのからす
entry:
(n,obsc) Yatagarasu (mythical raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition)/three-legged crow inhabiting the sun in Chinese mythology


kanji: 天の浮橋
kana: あまのうきはし
entry:
(n,arch) Ama no Ukihashi (the heavenly floating bridge; by which gods are said to descend from the heavens to the earth)


kanji: おのころ島
kana: おのころじま
entry:
オノコロ島 [オノコロじま] /(n,arch) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: おのころ島
kana: おのごろじま
entry:
オノコロ島 [オノゴロじま] /(n,arch) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: おのころ島
kana: おのころじま
entry:
オノコロ島 [おのころじま] /(n,arch) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: おのころ島
kana: おのごろじま
entry:
オノコロ島 [おのごろじま] /(n,arch) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: おのごろ島
kana: おのころじま
entry:
オノゴロ島 [オノコロじま] /(n,arch) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: おのごろ島
kana: おのごろじま
entry:
オノゴロ島 [オノゴロじま] /(n,arch) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: おのごろ島
kana: おのころじま
entry:
オノゴロ島 [おのころじま] /(n,arch) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: おのごろ島
kana: おのごろじま
entry:
オノゴロ島 [おのごろじま] /(n,arch) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: 磤馭慮島
kana: おのころじま
entry:
磤馭慮島 [オノコロじま] /(n,arch,oK) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: 磤馭慮島
kana: おのごろじま
entry:
磤馭慮島 [オノゴロじま] /(n,arch,oK) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan/


kanji: 磤馭慮島
kana: おのころじま
entry:
(n,arch,oK) Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)/Onogoro Island/Japan


kanji: 天の御柱
kana: あまのみはしら
entry:
(n,arch) Ama no Mihashira (the heavenly pillar on Onokoro Island, around which Izanagi and Izanami are said to have wed)


kanji: 八州
kana: はっしゅう
entry:
(n,arch) Japan/eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke &amp; Shimotsuke)


kanji: 関八州
kana: かんはっしゅう
entry:
(n,abbr) eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke &amp; Shimotsuke)


kanji: 関東八州
kana: かんとうはっしゅう
entry:
(n) eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke &amp; Shimotsuke)


kanji: 谷地鼠
kana: やちねずみ
entry:
谷地鼠 [ヤチネズミ] /(n,uk) Japanese red-backed vole (Myodes andersoni)/red-backed vole (any rodent of genus Myodes)/


kanji: 野地鼠
kana: やちねずみ
entry:
野地鼠 [ヤチネズミ] /(n,uk) Japanese red-backed vole (Myodes andersoni)/red-backed vole (any rodent of genus Myodes)/


kanji: 相殿
kana: あいどの
entry:
(n) enshrinement of two or more deities in one building of a shrine/shrine building dedicated to two or more deities


kanji: 造化の三神
kana: ぞうかのさんしん
entry:
(n) the three creator gods (Amanominakanushi no Kami, Takamimusuhi no Kami &amp; Kamimusuhi no Kami)


kanji: 太占
kana: ふとまに
entry:
(n,arch) scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer)/scapulomancy/spatulamancy/armomancy


kanji: 猿楽
kana: さるがく
entry:
(n,arch) sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries)/noh/fooling around


kanji: 散楽
kana: さんがく
entry:
(n) form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period)


kanji: 簓子
kana: ささらこ
entry:
(n) notched bamboo rod rubbed with an implement similar to a bamboo whisk (used as a percussion instrument)/wooden vertical batten


kanji: 権現造り
kana: ごんげんづくり
entry:
(n) style of Shinto architecture in which the main hall and worship hall share one roof, and are connected via an intermediate passageway


kanji: 巳の日の祓
kana: みのひのはらえ
entry:
(n,arch) purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar


kanji: 大幣
kana: おおぬさ
entry:
(n,arch) streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies)/being in great demand


kanji: 小幣
kana: こぬさ
entry:
(n,arch) small purification wand/thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods)


kanji: 初宮参り
kana: はつみやまいり
entry:
(n) first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old)


kanji: 神籬
kana: ひもろぎ
entry:
(n,arch) primitive shrine (originally a swath of sacred land surrounded by evergreens; later a decorated sakaki branch on an eight-legged table)


kanji: 薦
kana: こも
entry:
(n,abbr,arch) woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves)/beggar/Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)


kanji: 式年
kana: しきねん
entry:
(n) year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th &amp; 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter)


kanji: 式年祭
kana: しきねんさい
entry:
(n) imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)


kanji: 式年遷宮祭
kana: しきねんせんぐうさい
entry:
(n) fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)


kana: ぱんや
entry:
パンヤ /(n) silk cotton (esp. from the Indian silk cotton tree)/Indian silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)/


kanji: 官幣社
kana: かんぺいしゃ
entry:
(n,obs) shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji)


kanji: 国幣社
kana: こくへいしゃ
entry:
(n,obs) shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji)


kanji: 別格官幣社
kana: べっかくかんぺいしゃ
entry:
(n,obs) Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department)


kanji: 神送り
kana: かみおくり
entry:
(n) rite seeing off the gods on their way to Izumo Shrine (held on the last night of the ninth lunar month and first night of the tenth lunar month)/exorcism


kanji: 三諦
kana: さんたい
entry:
(n) (in Tendai) threefold truth (all things are void; all things are temporary; all things are in the middle state between these two)


kanji: 中諦
kana: ちゅうたい
entry:
(n) truth of the middle (all things are in a middle state, being void yet having temporary existence)


kanji: 神宮奉斎会
kana: じんぐうほうさいかい
entry:
(n,obs) Ise Shrine Offering Association (secular organization formed from Jingu-kyo in 1899; dissolved in 1946)


kanji: 神道十三派
kana: しんとうじゅうさんぱ
entry:
(n) the thirteen sects of Sect Shinto (Fuso-kyo, Taisha-kyo, Jikko-kyo, Konko-kyo, Kurozumi-kyo, Misogi-kyo, Ontake-kyo, Shinri-kyo, Shinshu-kyo, Shinto Shusei-ha, Shinto Taikyo, Taisei-kyo, Tenri-kyo)


kanji: 伊勢神道
kana: いせしんとう
entry:
(n) Ise Shinto (school of Shinto established the Watarai family priests of Ise Jingu's Outer Shrine)


kanji: 吉田神道
kana: よしだしんとう
entry:
(n) Yoshida Shinto (fusion of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism &amp; Taoism stressing traditional Japanese elements)


kanji: 山王一実神道
kana: さんのういちじつしんとう
entry:
(n) Sannou Ichijitsu Shinto (alt. name for Hie Shinto: a form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai)


kanji: 一実神道
kana: いちじつしんとう
entry:
(n,abbr,obsc) Ichijitsu Shinto (alt. name for Hie Shinto: a form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai)


kanji: 六朝
kana: りくちょう
entry:
(n) Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen)/calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period


kanji: 貝
kana: ばい
entry:
(n,uk,abbr) Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica)/Japanese ivory shell/spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell)


kanji: 貝
kana: ばい
entry:
貝 [バイ] /(n,uk,abbr) Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica)/Japanese ivory shell/spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell)/


kanji: にたり貝
kana: にたりがい
entry:
ニタリ貝 [ニタリがい] /(n,sl) Korean mussel (Mytilus coruscus)/silicone receptacle used for male masturbation/


kanji: にたり貝
kana: にたりがい
entry:
ニタリ貝 [にたりがい] /(n,sl) Korean mussel (Mytilus coruscus)/silicone receptacle used for male masturbation/


kanji: 似たり貝
kana: にたりがい
entry:
似たり貝 [ニタリがい] /(n,sl) Korean mussel (Mytilus coruscus)/silicone receptacle used for male masturbation/


kanji: 狩衣
kana: かりぎぬ
entry:
(n,arch) kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards)/(during the Edo period) patterned kariginu


kanji: 激する
kana: げきする
entry:
(vs-s) to intensify/to be excited/to fly into a rage/to get into a passion/to dash against/to encourage


kanji: 張
kana: ちょう
entry:
(n,arch,suf,ctr) Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)/counter for objects with stretched strings (i.e. bows, kotos), curtains, papers, etc.


kanji: 紫微
kana: しび
entry:
(n,abbr) Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)


kanji: 紫微垣
kana: しびえん
entry:
(n) Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)


kanji: 蚊帳吊草
kana: かやつりぐさ
entry:
(n,uk) galingale (any plant of genus Cyperus, esp. species Cyperus microiria)/nut grass (Cyperus rotundus)


kanji: 蚊帳吊草
kana: かやつりぐさ
entry:
蚊帳吊草 [カヤツリグサ] /(n,uk) galingale (any plant of genus Cyperus, esp. species Cyperus microiria)/nut grass (Cyperus rotundus)/


kanji: 莎草
kana: かやつりぐさ
entry:
莎草 [カヤツリグサ] /(n,uk) galingale (any plant of genus Cyperus, esp. species Cyperus microiria)/nut grass (Cyperus rotundus)/


kanji: 入国かーど
kana: にゅうこくかーど
entry:
入国カード [にゅうこくカード] /(n) disembarkation card/entry card/arrival card/immigration card/landing card/incoming passenger card/


kanji: 大宰府
kana: だざいふ
entry:
(n) dazaifu (under the ritsuryo system, governmental office with jurisdiction over Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima)


kanji: 八色の姓
kana: やくさのかばね
entry:
(n,arch) eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)


kanji: 八姓
kana: はっせい
entry:
(n,arch,obsc) eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)


kanji: 宿禰
kana: すくね
entry:
(n,arch,hon) Lord (title of respect for nobility, etc.)/Sukune (third highest of the eight hereditary titles)


kanji: 稲置
kana: いなぎ
entry:
(n,arch) regional official responsible for rice storage (under the Yamato court)/Inagi (lowest of the eight hereditary titles)


kanji: 五刑
kana: ごけい
entry:
(n,arch) five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)/five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)


kanji: 五罪
kana: ござい
entry:
(n,arch) five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)/five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)


kanji: 同音異字
kana: どうおんいじ
entry:
(n) homophone/word with the same pronunciation and similar meaning as another but a different written form


kanji: 長官
kana: かみ
entry:
(n,adj-no,arch) director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo period)/chief


kanji: 次官
kana: すけ
entry:
(n,arch) assistant director (second highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo period)


kanji: 主典
kana: さかん
entry:
(n,arch,obs) secretary (lowest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo period)/shrine official (ranking below a negi)


kanji: 主典
kana: そうかん
entry:
(n,arch,obs,ok) secretary (lowest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo period)/shrine official (ranking below a negi)


kana: すうぃーてぃ
entry:
スウィーティ /(n) sweetie (sweet green-skinned citrus; cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo)/oroblanco/


kana: すいーてぃー
entry:
スイーティー /(n) sweetie (sweet green-skinned citrus; cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo)/oroblanco/


kanji: 三革
kana: さんかく
entry:
(n,obsc) armor, helmet &amp; shield (armour)/kakurei, kakuun &amp; kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to onmyou-dou)


kanji: 蝶蝶魚
kana: ちょうちょううお
entry:
蝶蝶魚 [チョウチョウウオ] /(n,uk) Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes)/butterflyfish (any species of genus Chaetodon)/


kanji: 蝶蝶魚
kana: おりえんたるばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
蝶蝶魚 [オリエンタルバタフライフィッシュ] /(n,uk) Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes)/butterflyfish (any species of genus Chaetodon)/


kanji: 弁官
kana: べんかん
entry:
(n) Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)


kanji: 弁官
kana: おおともいのつかさ
entry:
(n,ok) Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)


kanji: 辨官
kana: べんかん
entry:
(n,oK) Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)


kanji: 辨官
kana: おおともいのつかさ
entry:
(n,ok,oK) Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)


kanji: 精米歩合
kana: せいまいぶあい
entry:
(n) ratio indicating the quantity of polished rice gained from a given quantity of brown rice (nowadays usually expressed as a percent)


kanji: 思いやり予算
kana: おもいやりよさん
entry:
(n) omoiyari yosan/appreciation payment/financial support towards welfare benefits and allowances of U.S. forces stationed in Japan


kanji: 首をひねる
kana: くびをひねる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to cock one's head in puzzlement/to tilt one's head in contemplation/to wrack one's brain/to think hard


kanji: 三省
kana: さんしょう
entry:
(n) three ministries (under the ritsuryo system: Ministries of Civil Services, Health &amp; War)/three departments (in Tang-dynasty China: Secretariat, Chancellory &amp; Dept. of State Affairs)


kanji: 箱河豚
kana: はこふぐ
entry:
(n,uk) bluespotted boxfish (Ostracion immaculatus)/boxfish (any fish of family Ostraciidae)/trunkfish


kanji: 箱河豚
kana: はこふぐ
entry:
箱河豚 [ハコフグ] /(n,uk) bluespotted boxfish (Ostracion immaculatus)/boxfish (any fish of family Ostraciidae)/trunkfish/


kanji: 海雀
kana: うみすずめ
entry:
(n,uk) murrelet (esp. the ancient murrelet, Synthliboramphus antiquus)/roundbelly cowfish (Lactoria diaphana)


kanji: 海雀
kana: うみすずめ
entry:
海雀 [ウミスズメ] /(n,uk) murrelet (esp. the ancient murrelet, Synthliboramphus antiquus)/roundbelly cowfish (Lactoria diaphana)/


kanji: 辺
kana: へ
entry:
(n,arch,suf) surrounding area/shore (of the sea)/suffix used as a rough indicator of location, direction, time, etc.


kanji: 兄
kana: にい
entry:
(n-suf,fam,n) used after the name of someone who is an older brother figure/used with various honorifics to mean (older) brother


kanji: 体する
kana: たいする
entry:
(vs-s,vt) to keep in mind and do as one has been told/to learn and obey/to act in accordance/to comply


kana: つんと
entry:
(adv,vs) prickly (attitude)/aloof/to look standoffish/acrid/sharp (smell)/popping (e.g. of ears, sinuses, etc.)


kanji: 無きゃいけない
kana: なきゃいけない
entry:
(exp,uk) cannot do without something/indispensable/absolutely necessary/(after negative base of verb) have to do/(P)


kanji: 親
kana: しん
entry:
(n,n-pref) intimacy/closeness/friendliness/close relative/pro- (i.e. pro-American, pro-Japanese, etc.)


kanji: 国郡里制
kana: こくぐんりせい
entry:
(n) province-district-neighbourhood system (system of administrative divisions under the ritsuryo; 1 neighbourhood=~50 homes, 1 district=2-20 neighbourhoods)


kanji: 郷里制
kana: ごうりせい
entry:
(n) township-neighbourhood system (redefining the province-district-neighbourhood system, establishing 50-home townships of 2-3 neighbourhoods each; 715-740 CE)


kanji: 弾正台
kana: だんじょうだい
entry:
(n) Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (1869-1871 CE)/Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (under the ritsuryo system)


kanji: 許し
kana: ばかし
entry:
(prt,uk,col) approximately/about/only/nothing but/(after the -ta form of a verb) just (finished, etc.)


kanji: 半跏思惟像
kana: はんかしいぞう
entry:
(n) Buddhist statue of a figure sitting contemplatively in the half-lotus position (often of Maitreya)


kanji: 花を咲かせる
kana: はなをさかせる
entry:
(exp,v1) to make lively/to become animated/to have fun talking about something/to become successful and well known


kanji: 編鐘
kana: へんしょう
entry:
(n) bianzhong (ancient Chinese musical instrument; bronze bells set in a wooden frame, played with a mallet)


kanji: 磬
kana: けい
entry:
(n) qing (ancient Chinese musical instrument; suspended gong-like chime shaped like an inverted 'v'; orig. made of stone)


kanji: 篠
kana: しの
entry:
(n,abbr) thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters)/Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes)/sliver (strand of loose fibers)


kanji: お変わりありませんか
kana: おかわりありませんか
entry:
(exp,pol) how have (you) been? (gen. used after some time apart)/lit: nothing (untoward) has happened, has it?


kanji: 下って
kana: くだって
entry:
(conj) humble conjuction used when referring to oneself in a letter to one's superior/after a time/later


kana: ない
entry:
(aux-adj,suf,adj-i) not (verb-negating suffix; may indicate question or invitation with rising intonation)/emphatic suffix (used after the root of an adjective)/(P)


kanji: 姫初め
kana: ひめはじめ
entry:
(n,col,X) eating the first meal of soft rice (himeii) after the traditional hard rice of New Year (kowaii)/loss of maidenhead


kanji: 帖
kana: じょう
entry:
(n,suf,ctr) folding book/counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori)/counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.


kanji: 高麗
kana: こうらい
entry:
(n,abbr,n-pref) Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE)/Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty)/(stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine


kana: み
entry:
(suf) -ness (nominalizing suffix, esp. of sensory or subjective adjectives)/nominalizing suffix indicating location/(as ...mi ...mi) alternating between ... and ...


kanji: 日本国現報善悪霊異記
kana: にほんこくげんほうぜんあくりょういき
entry:
(n) set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki


kana: からなる
entry:
(exp) Y adding up to Z/Y making up Z/Y constituting Z/Z consisting of Y/Z composed of Y/Z containing Y


kanji: 得体が知れない
kana: えたいがしれない
entry:
(exp,adj-i) strange (when used to modify the following noun)/unfamiliar/mysterious/suspicious/to not know the true nature


kanji: 左弁官
kana: さべんかん
entry:
(n) Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration &amp; Popular Affairs)


kanji: 乙姫海老
kana: おとひめえび
entry:
乙姫海老 [オトヒメエビ] /(n,uk) banded coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus)/coral banded shrimp/banded boxer shrimp/


kanji: 乙姫蝦
kana: おとひめえび
entry:
乙姫蝦 [オトヒメエビ] /(n,uk) banded coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus)/coral banded shrimp/banded boxer shrimp/


kanji: 油蟹
kana: あぶらがに
entry:
油蟹 [アブラガニ] /(n,uk) blue king crab (Paralithodes platypus)/striped shore crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes)/


kana: がらな
entry:
ガラナ /(n) guarana (tree)/Paullinia cupana/guarana (seed extract as an ingredient used in stamina drinks and foods for restorative and stimulant effect)/


kanji: 県
kana: あがた
entry:
(n,arch) territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.)/countryside


kanji: 縣
kana: あがた
entry:
(n,arch,oK) territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.)/countryside


kanji: 神も仏もない
kana: かみもほとけもない
entry:
(exp) There is no God! (used to express despair at the heartlessness of the world)/lit: there is no god or Buddha


kanji: 背筋を伸ばす
kana: せすじをのばす
entry:
(exp,v5s) to straighten up one's back (e.g. stand up straight, sit up straight)/to hold one's head high


kanji: 瓢箪から駒
kana: ひょうたんからこま
entry:
(exp) something very unexpected/something said as a joke actually happening/lit: a horse comes from a gourd


kana: めがふぇぷす
entry:
メガフェプス /(n) megafeps (mnemonic for verbs that never precede infinitives, but rather their gerunds)/mind, enjoy, give up, avoid, finish, escape, postpone, stop/


kanji: 伯父さん
kana: おじさん
entry:
伯父さん [オジサン] /(n,hon,fam,uk) uncle/old man/mister (vocative)/manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)/


kanji: 叔父さん
kana: おじさん
entry:
叔父さん [オジサン] /(n,hon,fam,uk) uncle/old man/mister (vocative)/manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)/


kanji: 小父さん
kana: おじさん
entry:
小父さん [オジサン] /(n,hon,fam,uk) uncle/old man/mister (vocative)/manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)/


kanji: 人間宣言
kana: にんげんせんげん
entry:
(n) Declaration of Humanity (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; Jan. 1, 1946)


kanji: 天皇人間宣言
kana: てんのうにんげんせんげん
entry:
(n) Imperial Declaration of Humanity (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; Jan. 1, 1946)


kanji: 虎の門事件
kana: とらのもんじけん
entry:
虎ノ門事件 [とらノもんじけん] /(n) Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito, Dec. 27, 1923)/


kanji: 虎の門事件
kana: とらのもんじけん
entry:
虎ノ門事件 [とらのもんじけん] /(n) Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito, Dec. 27, 1923)/


kanji: 虎の門事件
kana: とらのもんじけん
entry:
虎の門事件 [とらノもんじけん] /(n) Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito, Dec. 27, 1923)/


kana: うっとりする
entry:
(exp,vs-i) to be entranced/to be enraptured/to be transported/to be fascinated/to be absentminded/to be miles away/to be in a world of one's own


kanji: 片目
kana: めっかち
entry:
(n,uk,sens) blindness in one eye/having one eye much bigger than the other/someone blind in one eye/someone with one eye much bigger than the other


kanji: 玉音放送
kana: ぎょくおんほうそう
entry:
(n) radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the end of the war (recording of Hirohito; broadcast Aug. 15, 1945)


kanji: 聖
kana: ひじり
entry:
(n,hon,arch) highly virtuous monk/monk/Buddhist solitary/Buddhist missionary/saint (i.e. a virtuous person)/emperor


kanji: 赤また黒また
kana: あかまたくろまた
entry:
(n,uk) red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands)/harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)


kanji: 赤また黒また
kana: あかまたくろまた
entry:
赤また黒また [アカマタクロマタ] /(n,uk) red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands)/harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)/


kanji: 姫椿
kana: ひめつばき
entry:
(n,uk,arch) Chinese guger tree (species of evergreen, Schima wallichii)/sasanqua (Camellia sasanqua)/Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum)


kanji: 姫椿
kana: ひめつばき
entry:
姫椿 [ヒメツバキ] /(n,uk,arch) Chinese guger tree (species of evergreen, Schima wallichii)/sasanqua (Camellia sasanqua)/Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum)/


kanji: 独立行政法人等個人情報保護法
kana: どくりつぎょうせいほうじんとうこじんじょうほうほごほう
entry:
(n) Law for the Protection of Personal Information Retained by Independent Administrative Institutions (2003)


kana: おーばーてくのろじー
entry:
オーバーテクノロジー /(n) super technology/technology beyond our current capabilities, mainly in science fiction/


kanji: 菱
kana: ひし
entry:
(n,uk) Trapa japonica (species of plant closely related to water chestnut or water caltrop)/caltrop (weapon)/caltrap


kanji: 御綱柏
kana: みつながしわ
entry:
(n) Asplenium antiquum (species of spleenwort)/Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant)/leaves used for serving or offering sake, rice, etc.


kanji: 普賢延命菩薩
kana: ふげんえんめいぼさつ
entry:
(n) image of the Samantabhadra of long life (with either two or twenty arms, usu. on a white elephant)


kana: まーがれっと
entry:
マーガレット /(n) marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens)/Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)/


kana: まがれいと
entry:
マガレイト /(n) marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens)/Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)/


kana: まがれーと
entry:
マガレート /(n) marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens)/Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)/


kana: わんぽいんと
entry:
ワンポイント /(n,abbr,adj-f) stitched ornament/small needlepoint design/relief pitcher brought in to face one batter (baseball)/single point (e.g. lesson, advice)/single place/


kanji: 姉
kana: ねえ
entry:
(n-suf,fam,n) used after the name of someone who is an older sister figure/used with various honorifics to mean (older) sister


kanji: けじめを付ける
kana: けじめをつける
entry:
(exp,v1) to draw the line (between two situations)/to make a clear distinction/to take clear responsibility for (mistakes, etc.)


kanji: 貰い乳
kana: もらいぢ
entry:
(n,ok) having one's baby nursed by another woman/wet-nursing/breast milk received from another woman


kanji: 借音
kana: しゃくおん
entry:
(n) using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)


kanji: 借訓
kana: しゃっくん
entry:
(n) using the Japanese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)


kanji: 予備尋問
kana: よびじんもん
entry:
(n) voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)


kanji: 警策
kana: けいさく
entry:
(n,abbr) Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive Zazen sitter)/warning stick (Rinzai Zen)/encouragement stick (Soto Zen)/horsewhip


kanji: 大鳥
kana: おおとり
entry:
(n) large bird/kun (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to be able to turn into a fish)/fenghuang (Chinese phoenix)


kanji: 四大節
kana: しだいせつ
entry:
(n) the four grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday, Emperor Meiji's birthday; 1927-1948)


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


kana: すぁっと
entry:
スァット /(vs) swat - to hit with a sharp slapping blow usually with an instrument (as a bat or flyswatter)/


kanji: 五陰
kana: ごおん
entry:
(n,arch) the five skandhas (the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness)


kanji: 八戒
kana: はっかい
entry:
(n) the eight precepts (in addition to the five precepts, prohibitions against: lying in a luxurious bed; self-decoration, song &amp; dance; and eating after noon)


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


kana: の
entry:
(prt) indicates possessive among other uses (for full details and examples see the main entry (linked))


kanji: 転がし
kana: ころがし
entry:
(n,abbr) rolling (something)/knocking down/fishing with multiple hooks on a weighted line/repeatedly buying and selling


kanji: 絶対領域
kana: ぜったいりょういき
entry:
(n,m-sl,obsc) exposed skin between top of knee-high socks and hemline of skirt (lit: absolute territory)


kana: よいよい
entry:
(n,col,sens) locomotor ataxia/difficulty walking or speaking (due to alcoholism, a stroke, etc.)/someone with this problem


kanji: 加持身
kana: かじしん
entry:
(n) buddha-body within a practitioner (esoteric Buddhism)/altruistic manifested form of Mahavairocana (New Shingon)


kanji: 室鯵
kana: むろあじ
entry:
(n,uk) brownstriped mackerel scad (Decapterus muroadsi)/mackerel scad (any fish of genus Decapterus)


kanji: 室鯵
kana: むろあじ
entry:
室鯵 [ムロアジ] /(n,uk) brownstriped mackerel scad (Decapterus muroadsi)/mackerel scad (any fish of genus Decapterus)/


kanji: 室鰺
kana: むろあじ
entry:
室鰺 [ムロアジ] /(n,uk) brownstriped mackerel scad (Decapterus muroadsi)/mackerel scad (any fish of genus Decapterus)/


kanji: ぶっ叩く
kana: ぶったたく
entry:
(v5k) to beat vigorously/to rain stikes upon someone/to tan someone's hide/to mericlessly pummel/to beat the daylights out of


kana: あだるとちるどれん
entry:
アダルトチルドレン /(n,col) people psychologically traumatized from being raised in a abusive or dysfunctional family (e.g. by alcoholic parents)/immature adults/childish adults/


kanji: ＡＴＭ
kana: えーてぃーえむ
entry:
ＡＴＭ [エーティーエム] /(n) automatic teller machine/ATM/automated teller machine/asynchronous transfer mode/ATM/anti-tank missile/ATM/(P)/


kanji: 朱
kana: しゅ
entry:
(n) cinnabar/vermillion/red/slightly-orange red/red pigment (and ink made from same)/red text (as used to correct documents)


kanji: 追加削除
kana: ついかさくじょ
entry:
(n,vs) additions and deletions/adding and deleting/revisions/revising/to add and to delete/to revise


kanji: 口がかかる
kana: くちがかかる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to be summoned (i.e. of a geisha, by a customer)/to be offered (the job of ...)/to be invited (to do ...)


kana: うぇるかむぼーど
entry:
ウェルカムボード /(n) welcome board (e.g. placed outside wedding reception to greet guests, and confirm location)/


kanji: 固肥える
kana: かたごえる
entry:
(v1,vi) to put on a moderate amount of lean or firm weight/to gain healthy weight (e.g. from muscle)/to become overweight as opposed to obese


kanji: 脚下照顧
kana: きゃっかしょうこ
entry:
(exp) look carefully where your own footsteps fall/seek enlightenment by knowing yourself and not by watching others/know thyself


kana: どっぐいやー
entry:
ドッグイヤー /(n) "dog year", expression for the rapid pace at which the information technology field moves/


kanji: 白毫
kana: びゃくごう
entry:
(n) whorl of white hair on the forehead of the Buddha, represented by a white precious stone on statues of Buddha/urna


kanji: 貯留
kana: ちょりゅう
entry:
(n,vs) accumulation/retention/collection/sequestration (as in carbon dioxide sequestration)/storage (usually a liquid, e.g. rainwater, or behind a dam.)


kanji: 身を委ねる
kana: みをゆだねる
entry:
(exp) to yield oneself to (something)/to devote oneself to something/to surrender oneself to something


kanji: あそしえーしょん応答側応用えんてぃてぃ
kana: あそしえーしょんおうとうがわおうようえんてぃてぃ
entry:
アソシエーション応答側応用エンティティ [アソシエーションおうとうがわおうようエンティティ] /(n) association-responding-application-entity/association-responder/


kanji: あそしえーしょん起動側応用えんてぃてぃ
kana: あそしえーしょんきどうがわおうようえんてぃてぃ
entry:
アソシエーション起動側応用エンティティ [アソシエーションきどうがわおうようエンティティ] /(n) association-initiating-application-entity/association-initiator/


kanji: あぷりけーしょん開発者
kana: あぷりけーしょんかいはつしゃ
entry:
アプリケーション開発者 [アプリケーションかいはつしゃ] /(n) application developer/applications developer/applications programmer/


kanji: うぃんどうびゅーいんぐ変換
kana: うぃんどうびゅーいんぐへんかん
entry:
ウィンドウビューイング変換 [ウィンドウビューイングへんかん] /(n) normalization transformation/Viewing transformation/window-to-viewport transformation/


kanji: きーぼーど及び外部ぷろぐらむ入力式計算器
kana: きーぼーどおよびがいぶぷろぐらむにゅうりょくしきけいさんき
entry:
キーボード及び外部プログラム入力式計算器 [キーボードおよびがいぶプログラムにゅうりょくしきけいさんき] /(n) calculator with keyboard and external program input/


kanji: きーぼーど制御式のあどれす指定可能な記憶域をもつ計算器
kana: きーぼーどせいぎょしきのあどれすしていかのうなきおくいきをもつけいさんき
entry:
キーボード制御式のアドレス指定可能な記憶域をもつ計算器 [キーボードせいぎょしきのアドレスしていかのうなきおくいきをもつけいさんき] /(exp) calculator with keyboard controlled addressable storage/


kanji: きゃりあ検地多重あくせす衝突回避ねっとわーく
kana: きゃりあけんちたじゅうあくせすしょうとつかいひねっとわーく
entry:
キャリア検地多重アクセス衝突回避ネットワーク [キャリアけんちたじゅうアクセスしょうとつかいひネットワーク] /(n) carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance network/CSMA/CA network/


kanji: きゃりあ検地多重あくせす衝突検出ねっとわーく
kana: きゃりあけんちたじゅうあくせすしょうとつけんしゅつねっとわーく
entry:
キャリア検地多重アクセス衝突検出ネットワーク [キャリアけんちたじゅうアクセスしょうとつけんしゅつネットワーク] /(n) carrier sense multiple access with collision detection network/CSMA/CD network/


kanji: こんぴゅーたそふとうぇあ著作権協会
kana: こんぴゅーたそふとうぇあちょさくけんきょうかい
entry:
コンピュータソフトウェア著作権協会 [コンピュータソフトウェアちょさくけんきょうかい] /(n) Association of Copyright for Computer Software/ACCS/


kanji: さぶねっとわーく接続点あどれす
kana: さぶねっとわーくせつぞくてんあどれす
entry:
サブネットワーク接続点アドレス [サブネットワークせつぞくてんアドレス] /(n) subnetwork point of attachment address/subnetwork address/


kanji: とらんざくしょん処理応用さーびす要素
kana: とらんざくしょんしょりおうようさーびすようそ
entry:
トランザクション処理応用サービス要素 [トランザクションしょりおうようサービスようそ] /(n) Transaction Processing Application Service Element/TPASE/


kanji: はいぱめでぃあ及び時間依存情報の構造化言語
kana: はいぱめでぃあおよびじかんいぞんじょうほうのこうぞうかげんご
entry:
ハイパメディア及び時間依存情報の構造化言語 [ハイパメディアおよびじかんいぞんじょうほうのこうぞうかげんご] /(n) Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language/HyTime/


kanji: びゅーいんぐ変換
kana: びゅーいんぐへんかん
entry:
ビューイング変換 [ビューイングへんかん] /(n) viewing transformation/normalization transformation/window-to-viewport transformation/


kanji: ふぁいる保護りんぐ
kana: ふぁいるほごりんぐ
entry:
ファイル保護リング [ファイルほごリング] /(n) write-enable ring/write ring/file-protection ring/file protect ring/safety ring/


kanji: ぷれふぃっくす表記法
kana: ぷれふぃっくすひょうきほう
entry:
プレフィックス表記法 [プレフィックスひょうきほう] /(n) prefix notation/Polish notation/parenthesis-free notation/Lukasiewicz notation/


kanji: ぷろぐらむ制御式のあどれす指定可能な記憶域をもつ計算器
kana: ぷろぐらむせいぎょしきのあどれすしていかのうなきおくいきをもつけいさんき
entry:
プログラム制御式のアドレス指定可能な記憶域をもつ計算器 [プログラムせいぎょしきのアドレスしていかのうなきおくいきをもつけいさんき] /(exp) calculator with program-controlled addressable storage/


kanji: ぷろぐらむ制御式及びきーぼーど制御式のあどれす指定可能な記憶域をもつ計算器
kana: ぷろぐらむせいぎょしきおよびきーぼーどせいぎょしきのあどれすしていかのうなきおくいきをもつけいさんき
entry:
プログラム制御式及びキーボード制御式のアドレス指定可能な記憶域をもつ計算器 [プログラムせいぎょしきおよびキーボードせいぎょしきのアドレスしていかのうなきおくいきをもつけいさんき] /(n) calculator with program-controlled and keyboard controlled addressable storage/


kanji: ぽーらんど表記法
kana: ぽーらんどひょうきほう
entry:
ポーランド表記法 [ポーランドひょうきほう] /(n) prefix notation/Polish notation/parenthesis-free notation/Lukasiewicz notation/


kanji: るかーしぇびっち表記法
kana: るかーしぇびっちひょうきほう
entry:
ルカーシェビッチ表記法 [ルカーシェビッチひょうきほう] /(n) prefix notation/Polish notation/parenthesis-free notation/Lukasiewicz notation/


kanji: 逆ぽーらんど表記式計算器
kana: ぎゃくぽーらんどひょうきしきけいさんき
entry:
逆ポーランド表記式計算器 [ぎゃくポーランドひょうきしきけいさんき] /(n) calculator with postfix notation logic/calculator with suffix notation logic/calculator with reverse-Polish notation logic/


kanji: 共通おぶじぇくとりくえすとぶろーかあーきてくちゃ
kana: きょうつうおぶじぇくとりくえすとぶろーかあーきてくちゃ
entry:
共通オブジェクトリクエストブローカアーキテクチャ [きょうつうオブジェクトリクエストブローカアーキテクチャ] /(n) Common Object Request Broker Architecture/CORBA/


kanji: 共同利用型音声照会通知しすてむ
kana: きょうどうりようけいおんせいしょうかいつうちしすてむ
entry:
共同利用型音声照会通知システム [きょうどうりようけいおんせいしょうかいつうちシステム] /(n) ANSER/Automatic Answer Network System for Electrical Request/


kanji: 国際電気通信連合電気通信標準化せくた
kana: こくさいでんきつうしんれんごうでんきつうしんひょうじゅんかせくた
entry:
国際電気通信連合電気通信標準化セクタ [こくさいでんきつうしんれんごうでんきつうしんひょうじゅんかセクタ] /(n) International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector (formerly CCITT)/ITU-TS/


kanji: 試験用ぷろとこる実装補助情報
kana: しけんようぷろとこるじっそうほじょじょうほう
entry:
試験用プロトコル実装補助情報 [しけんようプロトコルじっそうほじょじょうほう] /(n) protocol implementation extra information for testing/PIXIT/


kanji: 社団法人情報さーびす産業協会
kana: しゃだんほうじんじょうほうさーびすさんぎょうきょうかい
entry:
社団法人情報サービス産業協会 [しゃだんほうじんじょうほうサービスさんぎょうきょうかい] /(n) JISA/Japan Information Service Industry Association/


kanji: 受諾側あそしえーしょん制御ぷろとこる機械
kana: じゅだくがわあそしえーしょんせいぎょぷろとこるきかい
entry:
受諾側アソシエーション制御プロトコル機械 [じゅだくがわアソシエーションせいぎょプロトコルきかい] /(n) accepting Association Control Protocol Machine/


kanji: 書込み許可りんぐ
kana: かきこみきょかりんぐ
entry:
書込み許可リング [かきこみきょかリング] /(n) write-enable ring/write ring/file-protection ring/file protect ring/safety ring/


kanji: 消去及びぷろぐらむ可能読取り専用記憶装置
kana: しょうきょおよびぷろぐらむかのうよみとりせんようきおくそうち
entry:
消去及びプログラム可能読取り専用記憶装置 [しょうきょおよびプログラムかのうよみとりせんようきおくそうち] /(n) erasable programmable read-only memory/EPROM/


kanji: 情報交換用あめりか標準こーど
kana: じょうほうこうかんようあめりかひょうじゅんこーど
entry:
情報交換用アメリカ標準コード [じょうほうこうかんようアメリカひょうじゅんコード] /(n) American Standard Code for Information Exchange/ASCII/


kanji: 条件付きえんとろぴー
kana: じょうけんつきえんとろぴー
entry:
条件付きエントロピー [じょうけんつきエントロピー] /(n) conditional entropy/mean conditional information content/average conditional information content/


kanji: 条件付えんとろぴー
kana: じょうけんつきえんとろぴー
entry:
条件付エントロピー [じょうけんつきエントロピー] /(n) conditional entropy/mean conditional information content/average conditional information content/


kanji: 条件付き平均情報量
kana: じょうけんつきへいきんじょうほうりょう
entry:
(n) conditional entropy/mean conditional information content/average conditional information content


kanji: 状態変化
kana: じょうたいへんか
entry:
(n,col) phase change/state change/transformation of characters - includes flattening, petrification, chocolization, etc.


kanji: 新世代こんぴゅーた技術開発機構
kana: しんせだいこんぴゅーたぎじゅつかいはつきこう
entry:
新世代コンピュータ技術開発機構 [しんせだいコンピュータぎじゅつかいはつきこう] /(n) The Institute for New Generation Computer Technology/ICOT/


kanji: 同位えんてぃてぃに割り当てられるうぃんどう上限
kana: どういえんてぃてぃにわりあてられるうぃんどうじょうげん
entry:
同位エンティティに割り当てられるウィンドウ上限 [どういエンティティにわりあてられるウィンドウじょうげん] /(n) upper window edge allocated to the peer entity/


kanji: 非０復帰１記録
kana: ひぜろふっきいちきろく
entry:
非０復帰１記録 [ひゼロふっきいちきろく] /(n) non-return-to-zero change-on-ones recording/NRZ-1/non-return-to-zero (mark) recording/NRZ(M)/


kanji: 非ぜろ復帰まーく記録
kana: ひぜろふっきまーくきろく
entry:
非ゼロ復帰マーク記録 [ひゼロふっきマークきろく] /(n) non-return-to-zero change-on-ones recording/NRZ-1/non-return-to-zero (mark) recording/NRZ(M)/


kanji: 分断後部
kana: ぶんだんこうぶ
entry:
(n,obsc) widow (one or more lines separated from the rest of the preceding passage by page or column break)


kanji: 分断前部
kana: ぶんだんぜんぶ
entry:
(n,obsc) orphan (one or more lines separated from the rest of the following passage by page or paragraph break)


kanji: 方向性
kana: ほうこうせい
entry:
(n,adj-no) trend/course of action/direction/directionality/directivity/orientation/directional/vectorial


kanji: 命令あどれすれじすた
kana: めいれいあどれすれじすた
entry:
命令アドレスレジスタ [めいれいアドレスレジスタ] /(n) instruction address register/program register/instruction pointer register/


kanji: 命令ぽいんたれじすた
kana: めいれいぽいんたれじすた
entry:
命令ポインタレジスタ [めいれいポインタレジスタ] /(n) instruction address register/program register/instruction pointer register/


kanji: 明示的並列命令こんぴゅーてぃんぐ技術
kana: めいじてきへいれつめいれいこんぴゅーてぃんぐぎじゅつ
entry:
明示的並列命令コンピューティング技術 [めいじてきへいれつめいれいコンピューティングぎじゅつ] /(n) EPIC:Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing/


kanji: 要求側あそしえーしょん制御ぷろとこる機械
kana: ようきゅうがわあそしえーしょんせいぎょぷろとこるきかい
entry:
要求側アソシエーション制御プロトコル機械 [ようきゅうがわアソシエーションせいぎょプロトコルきかい] /(n) requesting Association Control Protocol Machine/


kanji: 子安
kana: こやす
entry:
(n,abbr) safe, easy childbirth/guardian bodhisattva, buddha or deity of children or childbirth (esp. Ksitigarbha or Avalokitesvara)


kanji: 水子地蔵
kana: みずこじぞう
entry:
(n) Ksitigarbha statue erected to help deliver miscarried and aborted fetuses to buddhahood (foetuses)


kanji: 遺伝資源へのあくせすと利益配分
kana: いでんしげんへのあくせすとりえきはいぶん
entry:
遺伝資源へのアクセスと利益配分 [いでんしげんへのアクセスとりえきはいぶん] /(n) access to genetic resources and benefit sharing/Access and Benefit-Sharing/ABS/


kanji: 奥歯に物が挟まる
kana: おくばにものがはさまる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly)/to imply something in a roundabout way


kanji: 基礎年金番号
kana: きそねんきんばんごう
entry:
(n) universal pension number/common number shared between different pension schemes/basic pension number


kanji: 町石卒塔婆
kana: ちょうせきそとば
entry:
(n) stupa-shaped stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one cho (approx. 109 meters) on a temple approach


kanji: ないと行けない
kana: ないといけない
entry:
(exp,uk) (after negative base of verb) have to (verb)/must (verb)/is indispensable/absolutely necessary/(P)


kanji: 無いと
kana: ないと
entry:
(exp,abbr,uk,col) (after negative base of verb) have to (verb)/must (verb)/is indispensable/absolutely necessary


kanji: 木簡
kana: もっかん
entry:
(n) narrow, long, and thin pieces of wood strung together that were used to write on in ancient times


kanji: しつつ行なう
kana: しつつおこなう
entry:
(exp) to be carrying out/to be in the process of carrying out/to be performing/to be in the process of performing


kanji: 候ふ
kana: そうろう
entry:
(vi,arch,aux-v,pol) to serve (by a superior's side)/to be (auxiliary used in place of "aru" after "de" or "ni" when forming a copula)/to do (auxiliary used in place of "-masu" after a -masu stem)


kanji: 候ふ
kana: そうらう
entry:
(vi,arch,aux-v,pol,ok) to serve (by a superior's side)/to be (auxiliary used in place of "aru" after "de" or "ni" when forming a copula)/to do (auxiliary used in place of "-masu" after a -masu stem)


kanji: 候
kana: そうろう
entry:
(vi,arch,aux-v,pol,io) to serve (by a superior's side)/to be (auxiliary used in place of "aru" after "de" or "ni" when forming a copula)/to do (auxiliary used in place of "-masu" after a -masu stem)


kanji: 候
kana: そうらう
entry:
(vi,arch,aux-v,pol,ok,io) to serve (by a superior's side)/to be (auxiliary used in place of "aru" after "de" or "ni" when forming a copula)/to do (auxiliary used in place of "-masu" after a -masu stem)


kana: てれびどあほん
entry:
テレビドアホン /(n) video intercom (wasei: television door phone)/intercom with a video camera and display/video doorphone/


kanji: 本切羽
kana: ほんせっぱ
entry:
(n) functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e., those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned)/surgeon's cuffs


kanji: 桂剥き
kana: かつらむき
entry:
(n,uk) rotary cutting/thinly slicing into a long strip (e.g. daikon, carrot, wood for plywood, etc.)


kanji: 彼等
kana: あれら
entry:
(n,adj-no,uk,arch) those (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener, or something understood without naming it directly)/they (of people) (used to refer to one's equals or inferiors)


kanji: 思い立ったが吉日
kana: おもいたったがきちじつ
entry:
(exp,id) no time like the present (lit: it's the auspicious day when you've just thought of it)/make hay while the sun shines


kanji: 椎間板へるにあ
kana: ついかんばんへるにあ
entry:
椎間板ヘルニア [ついかんばんヘルニア] /(n) disk herniation/herniated disk/hernia of intervertebral disk/slipped disk/


kanji: 花がるた
kana: はながるた
entry:
花がるた [はなガルタ] /(n) floral playing cards/Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit repr. a month indic. by a flower)/


kanji: 花がるた
kana: はながるた
entry:
花ガルタ [はながるた] /(n) floral playing cards/Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit repr. a month indic. by a flower)/


kanji: 花がるた
kana: はながるた
entry:
花ガルタ [はなガルタ] /(n) floral playing cards/Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit repr. a month indic. by a flower)/


kanji: 明石焼き
kana: あかしやき
entry:
(n) var. of pottery from Hyogo prefecture/round balls made from eggs, flour, etc., (local food of Akashi)


kana: そとわーる
entry:
ソトワール /(n) sautoir/long necklace (longer than opera-length), often with an ornament (tassel or pendant) at the end/


kanji: ゆびきたす社会
kana: ゆびきたすしゃかい
entry:
ユビキタス社会 [ユビキタスしゃかい] /(n) society where IT related gadgets are prevalent and their function transparent (from "ubiquitous computing")/


kanji: 意味段落
kana: いみだんらく
entry:
(n) logical paragraph (as opposed to a formal paragraph)/segment of text expressing a single meaning


kanji: 形式段落
kana: けいしきだんらく
entry:
(n) formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph)/paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation)


kanji: 空芯菜
kana: くうしんさい
entry:
(n) ipomoea aquatica/kang kong/water morning glory/(Chinese) water spinach/water convolvulus/swamp cabbage/ong choy/hung tsai/rau muong/pak boong


kanji: 磯馴
kana: そなれ
entry:
(n) Japanese garden juniper/dwarf Japanese garden juniper/Juniperus procumbens/J. chinensis var. procumbens


kanji: 守破離
kana: しゅはり
entry:
(n) Shuhari/three stages of learning mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, parting with traditional wisdom


kanji: 群を抜く
kana: ぐんをぬく
entry:
(exp,v5k) to surpass the rest (e.g. of a large group)/to stand out from the crowd/to be the best by far


kanji: やんきー座
kana: やんきーずわり
entry:
ヤンキー座 [ヤンキーずわり] /(n) squatting, usu. with elbows on knees and often while smoking, typically considered a low class activity/


kanji: ばとんを渡す
kana: ばとんをわたす
entry:
バトンを渡す [バトンをわたす] /(exp,v5s) to pass the baton (e.g. in a relay race)/to pass the torch (to one's successor)/to pass the '(musical) baton' (e.g. a set of questions) to the next people/


kana: あんぶしゅあ
entry:
アンブシュア /(n) embouchure (the position and use of the lips, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument)/mouthpiece of a musical instrument/


kana: あんぶしゅーる
entry:
アンブシュール /(n) embouchure (the position and use of the lips, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument)/mouthpiece of a musical instrument/


kanji: 皇民化政策
kana: こうみんかせいさく
entry:
(n) imperialisation policy (esp. on Korea during Japan's colonial rule) (imperialization)/policy of imperialisation


kanji: 気を利かせる
kana: きをきかせる
entry:
(exp,v1) to (take in the situation, etc.) and make the smart move/to (consider someone's feelings) and do the tactful or helpful thing


kanji: 自切
kana: じせつ
entry:
(n) autotomy/self amputation/act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator


kanji: 割増手当
kana: わりましてあて
entry:
(n) salary supplement, e.g. for work performed at inconvenient times or as overtime allowance usually for so-called exempt workers, i.e. workers who are expected to work a certain number of overtime hours


kanji: 調整手当
kana: ちょうせいてあて
entry:
(n) adjustment payment/compensatory payment/indemnity payment/severance (termination) pay/settlement payment/gratuity


kanji: 爺ちゃん
kana: じいちゃん
entry:
(n,fam) grandfather (may be used after name as honorific)/male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)


kanji: 誤表記
kana: ごひょうき
entry:
(n) mistaken way of writing something/mistaken spelling/wrong way of writing something/wrong spelling


kanji: 総合電気めーかー
kana: そうごうでんきめーかー
entry:
総合電気メーカー [そうごうでんきメーカー] /(n) general electric devices manufacturing company/general electrical manufacturer/


kanji: 大手電気めーかー
kana: おおてでんきめーか
entry:
大手電気メーカー [おおてでんきメーカ] /(n) major electrical manufacturer/major company manufacturing electric devices/


kanji: ばかが移る
kana: ばかがうつる
entry:
バカが移る [バカがうつる] /(exp,v5r,col) to catch 'the stupid' (e.g. from talking to stupid people, watching mindless TV, etc.)/


kanji: ばかが移る
kana: ばかがうつる
entry:
バカが移る [ばかがうつる] /(exp,v5r,col) to catch 'the stupid' (e.g. from talking to stupid people, watching mindless TV, etc.)/


kanji: 馬鹿が移る
kana: ばかがうつる
entry:
馬鹿が移る [バカがうつる] /(exp,v5r,col) to catch 'the stupid' (e.g. from talking to stupid people, watching mindless TV, etc.)/


kanji: 馬鹿が移る
kana: ばかがうつる
entry:
(exp,v5r,col) to catch 'the stupid' (e.g. from talking to stupid people, watching mindless TV, etc.)


kana: む
entry:
(int,arch,aux-v) unh (sound of physical exertion)/oof/wow/whoa/yes/yeah/uh-huh/(after a -nai stem) probably/will/intend to/would like to have done (for me)


kanji: れーす草
kana: れーすそう
entry:
レース草 [レースそう] /(n) lace-leaf plant (Ouvirandra fenestralis, Aponogeton madagascariensis)/lattice-leaf plant/


kanji: れーす草
kana: れーすそう
entry:
レース草 [レースソウ] /(n) lace-leaf plant (Ouvirandra fenestralis, Aponogeton madagascariensis)/lattice-leaf plant/


kanji: 空気読めない
kana: くうきよめない
entry:
(exp) to be unable to read the situation/to be unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation (e.g. A and B are complaining about C, and D joins the conversation praising C)


kana: けいわい
entry:
ケイワイ /(exp) to be unable to read the situation/to be unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation (e.g. A and B are complaining about C, and D joins the conversation praising C)/


kanji: 特区
kana: とっく
entry:
(n,abbr) special ward/special economic zone (China)/special administrative region of China (e.g. Hong Kong)


kanji: 平和憲法
kana: へいわけんぽう
entry:
(n) pacifist constitution (often applied to the Japanese constitution)/constitution which outlaws use of arms


kanji: 走らせる
kana: はしらせる
entry:
(v1,vt) to dispatch/to make run/to drive/to gallop/to sail/to run (a program)/to rout/to put to flight


kanji: 学歴難民
kana: がくれきなんみん
entry:
(n) someone with a high level of education who is unable to find a job corresponding with his qualifications (lit: educational refugee)


kanji: 見る影もない
kana: みるかげもない
entry:
(exp,id) mere shadow of one's former self/having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.)


kana: ゆるきゃら
entry:
ゆるキャラ /(n) (weak) mascot character (e.g. devised for PR purposes by local government, government departments, etc.)/


kanji: 肉筆画
kana: にくひつが
entry:
(n) picture painted by hand/painting (as opposed to a woodblock print)/original painting/original drawing


kanji: あるこーる漬け
kana: あるこーるづけ
entry:
アルコール漬け [アルコールづけ] /(n) preserving in alcohol/pickling one's liver/drinking incessantly/being a souse/


kanji: あるこーる漬
kana: あるこーるづけ
entry:
アルコール漬 [アルコールづけ] /(n) preserving in alcohol/pickling one's liver/drinking incessantly/being a souse/


kanji: 様だ
kana: ようだ
entry:
(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


kanji: 朝まらの立たぬ男に金貸すな
kana: あさまらのたたぬおとこにかねかすな
entry:
朝マラの立たぬ男に金貸すな [あさマラのたたぬおとこにかねかすな] /(exp,obsc) never lend money to a man who doesn't have an erection in the morning (because he's not healthy and is likely to die before repaying)/


kanji: 壷洗い
kana: つぼあらい
entry:
(n,sl) individually "washing" a partner's fingers or toes in one's vagina (esp. as a service at a soapland)


kanji: 義理まん
kana: ぎりまん
entry:
義理マン [ぎりマン] /(n,sl) sexual intercourse permitted (by a woman) due to a sense of obligation (rather than desire)/


kanji: 義理まん
kana: ぎりまん
entry:
義理マン [ぎりまん] /(n,sl) sexual intercourse permitted (by a woman) due to a sense of obligation (rather than desire)/


kanji: 義理まん
kana: ぎりまん
entry:
義理まん [ぎりマン] /(n,sl) sexual intercourse permitted (by a woman) due to a sense of obligation (rather than desire)/


kanji: 渡来神
kana: とらいしん
entry:
(n) deity that originated on the Asian mainland, particulalry the Korean Peninsula, during the Yayoi or Kofun Periods (e.g. Ame no Hiboko)


kanji: 寺請制度
kana: てらうけせいど
entry:
(n) system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith


kanji: 謝す
kana: しゃす
entry:
(v5s) to thank/to apologize/to apologise/to say farewell/to retreat/to retire/to refuse/to pay back/to settle old scores


kanji: 逸す
kana: いっす
entry:
(v5s) to lose (a chance)/to miss (a chance)/to overlook/to omit/to forget/to deviate/to depart from (the norm, etc.)


kanji: 対す
kana: たいす
entry:
(v5s,vi) to face (each other)/to be facing/to be directed toward (the future, etc.)/to be in response to/to be related to/to receive (a client, etc.)/to compare with


kanji: 服す
kana: ふくす
entry:
(v5s) to obey/to submit/to defer/to yield/to abide/to serve (e.g. in the army, or a sentence in jail (gaol))/to observe (e.g. mourning)/to drink (tea, medicine, etc.)


kanji: 辞す
kana: じす
entry:
(v5s) to excuse oneself/to take one's leave/to quit/to resign/to retire/to leave post/to decline/to turn down/unhesitatingly


kanji: 排す
kana: はいす
entry:
(v5s,vt,arch) to push aside/to overcome (e.g. difficulties)/to reject/to align/to put in order/to push open


kanji: 擬す
kana: ぎす
entry:
(v5s,vt) to imitate/to copy/to mimic/to enter someone as a candidate/to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back)/to compare/to liken


kanji: 屯す
kana: とんす
entry:
(v5s,vi,uk) to gather in large numbers (of people)/to hang out (as a large group)/to assemble (as a military unit or posse)/to be quartered (in a particular location)


kanji: 配す
kana: はいす
entry:
(v5s,vt) to distribute/to arrange/to allot (to a position of authority, etc.)/to arrange/to lay out (as in decorating)/to marry off/to exile/to banish


kanji: 激す
kana: げきす
entry:
(v5s) to intensify/to be excited/to fly into a rage/to get into a passion/to dash against/to encourage


kanji: 茶湯
kana: ちゃとう
entry:
(n) an offering of tea and hot water made to Buddha or the spirit of the deceased/a tea infusion/tea and hot water/tea ceremony


kanji: 茶事
kana: ちゃごと
entry:
(n) tea gathering (for the tea ceremony)/some matter concerning tea/family tea gathering held in memory of deceased ancestors


kanji: 大寄
kana: おおよせ
entry:
(n) calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party/starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go


kanji: そーらん節
kana: そーらんぶし
entry:
ソーラン節 [ソーランぶし] /(n) traditional work song of Hokkaido herring fishery workers, performed by school students in modern choreographed interpretations/


kanji: 可い
kana: べい
entry:
(aux,arch,uk) word used at sentence-end (like a particle) to indicate speculation, volition or invitation/should/must


kanji: 得
kana: う
entry:
(v2a-s,vt) to get/to acquire/to obtain/to procure/to earn/to win/to gain/to secure/to attain/to be possible


kana: ふらっくす
entry:
フラックス /(n) flux (substance mixed with a solid in order to lower the its melting point)/fising agent/


kanji: 大岡裁き
kana: おおおかさばき
entry:
(n) judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Oooka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)


kana: りぺれっと
entry:
リペレット /(n,vs) re-pellet (plastics industry)/regrind/grinding plastic scraps into small pieces as a form of recycling/


kanji: おはか参り
kana: おはかまいり
entry:
(n) ritual visit to the tomb of one's ancestors (bringing flowers, burning incense, cleansing the tombstone)


kanji: 開かる
kana: はだかる
entry:
(v5r,vi,uk) to be separated/to be exposed/to be wide open/to stand with one's limbs apart (blocking the way)


kana: でらしね
entry:
デラシネ /(n) uprooted person/free spirit/something or someone who has lost (cultural, geographical, family, etc.) roots/


kanji: 強制連行
kana: きょうせいれんこう
entry:
(n,vs) being moved forcibly, e.g. being carted to a police station, transportation for forced labour, etc.


kanji: 意符
kana: いふ
entry:
(n) part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the meaning (as opposed to the pronunciation)


kanji: 桟
kana: さん
entry:
(n) frame (i.e. of a sliding door)/crosspiece/bar/sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)/rung (of a ladder)


kanji: 桟
kana: えつり
entry:
(n,abbr) sheathing (under thatched roofing)/lath (used as a foundation for a mud plaster wall)/decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo)


kanji: 院
kana: いん
entry:
(n,hon,suf) imperial palace/emperor (or his empress, imperial princesses, etc.)/temple/institution (esp. a government office, school, hospital, etc.)/suffix used in posthumous names (esp. of emperors, daimyos, etc.)


kanji: 講
kana: こう
entry:
(n,n-suf) (Buddhist) lecture meeting/religious association/mutual assistance association (i.e. for financial assistance)


kanji: 催馬楽
kana: さいばら
entry:
(n) genre of Heian-period Japanese court music (primarily consisting of gagaku-styled folk melodies)


kanji: 塚造
kana: つかつくり
entry:
塚造 [ツカツクリ] /(n,uk) megapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, inc. brush turkeys and mallee fowl)/mound builder/


kana: あんぺら
entry:
アンペラ /(n) Machaerina rubiginosa (species of tropical sedge)/woven mat made of Machaerina rubiginosa root/


kanji: 才取り
kana: さいとり
entry:
(n,abbr) brokering/broker/handing materials up a ladder (to a plasterer)/assistant who hands things up a ladder (to a plasterer)/pole used to hand things up a ladder


kanji: 才取会員
kana: さいとりかいいん
entry:
(n) stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist)


kanji: くれおぱとらの鼻がもう少し低かったなら世界の歴史は変わっていたであろう
kana: くれおぱとらのはながもうすこしひくかったならせかいのれきしはかわっていたであろう
entry:
クレオパトラの鼻がもう少し低かったなら世界の歴史は変わっていたであろう [クレオパトラのはながもうすこしひくかったならせかいのれきしはかわっていたであろう] /(exp,id) If Cleopatra's nose had been a little lower, the history of the world might have been different/


kanji: 目処が立つ
kana: めどがたつ
entry:
(exp,id) the prospects for a solution look brighter/there is hope that we can (accomplish a certain thing)


kanji: 懸仏
kana: かけぼとけ
entry:
(n) round plaque carrying the image of a Buddha (usually hammered from behind) used in temples and shrines


kanji: 高等部
kana: こうとうぶ
entry:
(n) senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)


kanji: 人には添うて見よ馬には乗って見よ
kana: ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ
entry:
(exp,obsc) you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them, just like you can't judge a horse until you've ridden it


kanji: 雁皮
kana: がんぴ
entry:
(n,uk,abbr) Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant)/paper made from the fibre of this plant


kanji: 雁皮
kana: がんぴ
entry:
雁皮 [ガンピ] /(n,uk,abbr) Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant)/paper made from the fibre of this plant/


kanji: 鳥の子紙
kana: とりのこがみ
entry:
(n) eggshell-colored traditional Japanese paper made primarily of Diplomorpha sikokiana fibres (high-quality, glossy)


kanji: 地
kana: じ
entry:
(n,abbr) ground/land/earth/soil/the region in question/the local area/skin/texture/fabric/material/weave/base/background/one's true nature/narrative (i.e. descriptive part of a story)


kanji: 鴨葱
kana: かもねぎ
entry:
(exp,sl,abbr) along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money/double stroke of good luck/Perfect timing!/How convenient (for you to show up)!


kanji: 鴨葱
kana: かもねぎ
entry:
鴨葱 [かもネギ] /(exp,sl,abbr) along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money/double stroke of good luck/Perfect timing!/How convenient (for you to show up)!/


kanji: 鴨ねぎ
kana: かもねぎ
entry:
鴨ねぎ [かもネギ] /(exp,sl,abbr) along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money/double stroke of good luck/Perfect timing!/How convenient (for you to show up)!/


kanji: 鴨ねぎ
kana: かもねぎ
entry:
鴨ネギ [かもねぎ] /(exp,sl,abbr) along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money/double stroke of good luck/Perfect timing!/How convenient (for you to show up)!/


kanji: 鴨ねぎ
kana: かもねぎ
entry:
鴨ネギ [かもネギ] /(exp,sl,abbr) along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money/double stroke of good luck/Perfect timing!/How convenient (for you to show up)!/


kanji: 目力
kana: めじから
entry:
(n) the ability to convey strong emotions with his eyes (for an actor)/eyes that convey a strong sense of purpose


kanji: 味噌たき
kana: みそたき
entry:
(n) annual event of miso-making/first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation


kanji: 環境型せくはら
kana: かんきょうがたせくはら
entry:
環境型セクハラ [かんきょうがたセクハラ] /(n) sexual harassment from colleagues in the work environment (lit: environmental sexual harassment)/


kanji: 大検
kana: だいけん
entry:
(n,abbr) University Entrance Qualification Examination (establishes the equivalent of high-school graduation)


kanji: 大学入学資格検定
kana: だいがくにゅうがくしかくけんてい
entry:
(n) University Entrance Qualification Examination (establishes the equivalent of high-school graduation)


kana: して
entry:
(prt,conj) by (indicating means of action)/as (a group, etc.)/indicates patient of a causative expression/(after the ren'youkei form of an adjective) acts as a connective


kanji: 輝点
kana: きてん
entry:
(n) light spot (e.g. blip on radar)/always-on pixel (as a defect in LCD screens, etc.)/calescence point


kanji: 中二病
kana: ちゅうにびょう
entry:
(n,sl) humorous way of characterising certain expressions or behaviors that are characteristic of teenagers (lit: 8th grader sickness)


kanji: 跛行婚
kana: はこうこん
entry:
(n) international marriage which is recognized in only one party's country (e.g. same-sex marriage, polygamy, underage marriage)


kanji: 枯れ専
kana: かれせん
entry:
(n,uk) younger woman (usu. 20-30 years old) who is physically attracted to mature older men (usu. 50-60 years old)


kanji: 枯れ専
kana: かれせん
entry:
枯れ専 [カレセン] /(n,uk) younger woman (usu. 20-30 years old) who is physically attracted to mature older men (usu. 50-60 years old)/


kana: ありんす
entry:
(exp) variation of "arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period


kana: ほいほい
entry:
(adv,vs) Shoo! (used to drive away people or animals)/without considering the pros and (particularly) the cons/thoughtlessly/readily/blithely/willingly/to pamper


kanji: ぞんび会社
kana: ぞんびかいしゃ
entry:
ゾンビ会社 [ゾンビかいしゃ] /(exp) zombie businesses (firms that would have failed but for government intervention)/


kanji: 民間企業
kana: みんかんきぎょう
entry:
(n) private enterprise/private business/private company/private firm/private-sector business/private-sector corporation


kanji: 五斗米道
kana: ごとべいどう
entry:
(n) Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters)


kanji: 天師道
kana: てんしどう
entry:
(n) Way of the Celestial Masters (ancient Chinese Daoist movement orig. known as The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice)


kanji: 新仏
kana: しんぼとけ
entry:
(n) spirit of someone on the first O-Bon after their death/the recently departed (and buried or cremated, etc.)


kanji: 主
kana: あるじ
entry:
(n,abbr,arch) head (of a household)/proprietor (of a store)/proprietress/landlord/landlady/master (of a servant)/entertaining someone as one's guest


kanji: 国際人権規約
kana: こくさいじんけんきやく
entry:
(n) International Covenants on Human Rights/ICCPR/International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights/ICESCR


kanji: 大纛
kana: たいとう
entry:
(n) large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp/emperor's encampment


kanji: 正
kana: しょう
entry:
(n,n-pref,pref) greater (of equal court ranks)/upper/senior/director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo period)/chief/(before a number) exactly


kanji: 大き
kana: おおき
entry:
(pref,arch,n,adj-na) great/grand/large/greater (of equal court ranks)/upper/senior/a great deal/very much


kanji: 大
kana: おおき
entry:
(pref,arch,n,adj-na,io) great/grand/large/greater (of equal court ranks)/upper/senior/a great deal/very much


kanji: 纏まった
kana: まとまった
entry:
(exp,uk) large/heavy/massed/quite a lot/large amount/sizable (e.g. sum)/definite/coherent/congruous/unitary


kanji: 三尸
kana: さんし
entry:
(n) the three worms (in Taoism, worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings)


kanji: 庚申待
kana: こうしんまち
entry:
(n) staying awake on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle (to prevent the three worms from reporting one's wrongdoings and shortening one's lifespan), while worshipping Sakra, the Blue-Faced Vajra, or Sarutahiko


kanji: こっぷ酒
kana: こっぷざけ
entry:
コップ酒 [コップざけ] /(n) sake sold in a cup rather than a bottle/drinking sake from a regular-size cup rather than from a small sake cup/


kanji: 兵農分離
kana: へいのうぶんり
entry:
(n) separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)


kanji: 甘葛
kana: あまずら
entry:
(n,arch) ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata)/jiaogulan (species of herbaceous vine; Gynostemma pentaphyllum)


kanji: 正式の歴史
kana: せいしきのれきし
entry:
(n) offical history (e.g. a state sanctioned account of history subject to revision when the government changes)


kanji: 稗官
kana: はいかん
entry:
(n) petty official responsible for collecting public gossip and presenting it to the king (in ancient China)


kana: やんでれ
entry:
ヤンデレ /(n,adj-f,m-sl) person (usu. female) with an unhealthy romantic obsession (has a connotation of mental unstability)/


kana: やんでれ
entry:
(n,adj-f,m-sl) person (usu. female) with an unhealthy romantic obsession (has a connotation of mental unstability)


kanji: 編み包み
kana: あみぐるみ
entry:
(n) knitted or crocheted small stuffed animal or anthropomorphic creature (lit. knitted stuffed toy)


kanji: 狡兎死して走狗烹らる
kana: こうとししてそうくにらる
entry:
(exp) When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off (lit: when the (fast) rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked)


kana: だくまだくま
entry:
ダクマダクマ /(exp,adj-na,fem) woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a Noh theatre/space of Noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping/


kana: だっくまだっくま
entry:
ダックマダックマ /(exp,adj-na,fem) woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a Noh theatre/space of Noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping/


kanji: 約因
kana: やくいん
entry:
(n) consideration (in contract law, the thing given or done by the promisee in exchange for the promise)


kanji: 一挨一拶
kana: いちあいいっさつ
entry:
(n,arch) dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment) (source of modern word aisatsu)


kanji: 吹っ飛ばす
kana: ふっとばす
entry:
(v5s) to blow off something (strongly)/to blow off one's worries/to brush away one's worries/to accomplish a task very rapidly/to drive (a car) at full speed


kanji: 属人法
kana: ぞくじんほう
entry:
(n) law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national/law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems


kanji: 省あって国なし
kana: しょうあってくになし
entry:
(exp) each ministry thinks only of its own good, but not of the good of the country (lit: when there are ministries, there is no country)


kanji: 多層建て列車
kana: たそうだてれっしゃ
entry:
(n) "multilayer" train/single train formed by joining one or more trains having a different origin or destination


kana: すかり
entry:
(n,adv,adv-to) net for caught fish/net-like tassel of Buddhist prayer beads/Vespula flaviceps (species of yellowjacket)/ant/easily


kana: どら
entry:
ドラ /(n,abbr) mah-jongg tile that doubles the score of any hand (or the rule set that includes these tiles)/


kanji: 日避虫
kana: ひよけむし
entry:
日避虫 [ヒヨケムシ] /(n,uk) sun spider (any arachnid of order Solifugae)/wind scorpion/camel spider/solpugid/


kanji: 庫院
kana: くいん
entry:
(n) kitchen-cum-office of a Zen temple or monastery, where meals are prepared and senior priests have their offices


kanji: 子泣き爺
kana: こなきじじい
entry:
(n) Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)


kanji: ぷりん頭
kana: ぷりんあたま
entry:
プリン頭 [プリンあたま] /(n,col) black hair that has been dyed blond after the roots begin to grow in at the top giving an appearance much like custard pudding (lit. pudding head)/


kanji: 尽く
kana: ずく
entry:
(suf,uk) (after a noun) relying entirely on .../using solely .../with the sole purpose of .../based on (mutual consent, etc.)


kanji: 尽
kana: ずく
entry:
(suf,uk,io) (after a noun) relying entirely on .../using solely .../with the sole purpose of .../based on (mutual consent, etc.)


kanji: 相和する
kana: あいわする
entry:
(vs-s,vi) to get along well together/to be in tune with one another/to harmonize with each other/to go well together


kana: はーふいんたーちぇんじ
entry:
ハーフインターチェンジ /(n) half interchange (an interchange that lacks an exit or an entrance in either or both directions)/


kanji: 社会大衆党
kana: しゃかいたいしゅうとう
entry:
(n) Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)


kanji: 金蛇
kana: かなへび
entry:
(n,uk) lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)


kanji: 金蛇
kana: かなへび
entry:
金蛇 [カナヘビ] /(n,uk) lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)/


kanji: 蛇舅母
kana: かなへび
entry:
蛇舅母 [カナヘビ] /(n,uk) lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)/


kana: いえろーきゃぶ
entry:
イエローキャブ /(n) yellow cab/term referring to an ethnic stereotype of Japanese women, and by extension other Asians, suggesting that they are sexually available to foreign men/


kanji: 半透過型液晶でぃすぷれー
kana: はんとうかがたえきしょうでぃすぷれー
entry:
半透過型液晶ディスプレー [はんとうかがたえきしょうディスプレー] /(n) semi-transmissive liquid crystal display/semi-transmissive LCD/


kanji: 班田収授法
kana: はんでんしゅうじゅのほう
entry:
(n) allotment of rice paddies for cultivation during the cultivator's lifetime (ancient Japanese law)


kanji: あきれすの論証
kana: あきれすのろんしょう
entry:
アキレスの論証 [アキレスのろんしょう] /(n) Achilles argument (i.e. Achilles and the tortoise; one of Zeno's paradoxes)/


kanji: 偏諱を賜う
kana: へんきをたまう
entry:
(exp,v5u,arch) (of a nobleperson) to bestow one of the kanji in one's name upon someone (e.g. a meritorious retainer, a boy coming of age, etc.)


kanji: 鼠かんがるー
kana: ねずみかんがるー
entry:
鼠カンガルー [ねずみカンガルー] /(n,uk) rat kangaroo (any marsupial of family Potoroidae, inc. bettongs and potoroos)/


kanji: 鼠かんがるー
kana: ねずみかんがるー
entry:
鼠カンガルー [ネズミカンガルー] /(n,uk) rat kangaroo (any marsupial of family Potoroidae, inc. bettongs and potoroos)/


kana: にゅーものうるとらまいくろすこーぴっくしりこヴぉるけーのこにおしす
entry:
ニューモノウルトラマイクロスコーピックシリコヴォルケーノコニオシス /(n) pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis/


kanji: 四大公害病
kana: よんだいこうがいびょう
entry:
(n) the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease)/four big pollution diseases of Japan


kana: べるがもっと
entry:
ベルガモット /(n) bergamot (Citrus aurantium ssp. bergamia)/bergamot orange/bergamot (Monarda didyma)/bee balm/Oswego tea/


kanji: 楽市楽座
kana: らくいちらくざ
entry:
(n) free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)


kanji: 黒藻
kana: くろも
entry:
(n,uk) hydrilla (species of aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata)/Papenfussiella kuromo (species of brown algae)


kanji: 黒藻
kana: くろも
entry:
黒藻 [クロモ] /(n,uk) hydrilla (species of aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata)/Papenfussiella kuromo (species of brown algae)/


kanji: 黒慈姑
kana: くろぐわい
entry:
黒慈姑 [クログワイ] /(n,uk) Eleocharis kuroguwai (species of spikerush)/Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis)/


kanji: 表記ゆれ
kana: ひょうきゆれ
entry:
(n) orthographical variants/words with the same pronunciation and meaning, but different written forms


kanji: 八重葎
kana: やえむぐら
entry:
(n,uk) thick patch of mixed weeds/false cleavers (species of bedstraw, Galium spurium var. echinospermon)


kanji: 八重葎
kana: やえむぐら
entry:
八重葎 [ヤエムグラ] /(n,uk) thick patch of mixed weeds/false cleavers (species of bedstraw, Galium spurium var. echinospermon)/


kana: たらしい
entry:
(suf,adj-i) (after a noun or the stem of an adjective) seeming very... (usu. with a negative connotation)


kanji: 両部
kana: りょうぶ
entry:
(n,abbr) two parts/both parts/both realms (i.e. the Diamond Realm and the Womb Realm)/Shinto-Buddhist amalgamation


kanji: 収納代行さーびす
kana: しゅうのうだいこうさーびす
entry:
収納代行サービス [しゅうのうだいこうサービス] /(n) receiving agent services/over the counter payment accepted through convenience stores/


kanji: 毒蜥蜴
kana: どくとかげ
entry:
(n,uk) heloderm (any venomous lizard of genus Heloderma, inc. the gila monster and the beaded lizard)


kanji: 毒蜥蜴
kana: どくとかげ
entry:
毒蜥蜴 [ドクトカゲ] /(n,uk) heloderm (any venomous lizard of genus Heloderma, inc. the gila monster and the beaded lizard)/


kanji: 海老責め
kana: えびぜめ
entry:
(n) Japanese bondage torture (bound victim sits cross-legged with their arms tied behind them, and the rope is tightened until their ankles touch their neck)


kanji: 駿河問い
kana: するがどい
entry:
(n) Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)


kanji: 俵責め
kana: たわらぜめ
entry:
(n) Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)


kanji: 石抱き
kana: いしだき
entry:
(n) form of torture in which the victim kneels on triangular wedges and stone slabs are placed on their lap


kanji: 国訓
kana: こっくん
entry:
(n) Japanese reading of a kanji (sometimes esp. in ref. to readings that do not correspond to the orig. Chinese meaning of the kanji)


kanji: 大寒小寒
kana: おおさむこさむ
entry:
(exp) first verse of a nursery rhyme sung by children on cold days (similar to "It's Raining, It's Pouring")


kanji: 銀目
kana: ぎんめ
entry:
(n,uk,abbr) Edo-period unit of silver coinage/steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat)/silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)


kanji: 蛇の目蝶
kana: じゃのめちょう
entry:
蛇の目蝶 [ジャノメチョウ] /(n,uk) satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas)/grayling/


kanji: 蛇目蝶
kana: じゃのめちょう
entry:
蛇目蝶 [ジャノメチョウ] /(n,uk) satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas)/grayling/


kana: いじゅてぃはーど
entry:
イジュティハード /(n) ijtihad (use of discretionary judgement in deducing a law not specified in scripture)/


kanji: 海鰓
kana: うみえら
entry:
海鰓 [ウミエラ] /(n,uk) sea pen (any coelenterate of the family Pennatulidae or related families)/sea feather/


kanji: 安居
kana: あんご
entry:
(n,vs) varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar)


kanji: 臈
kana: ろう
entry:
(n) year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat)/becoming more experienced with age/social status based on this experience


kanji: 臘
kana: ろう
entry:
(n) 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)


kanji: 孟宗竹
kana: もうそうだけ
entry:
孟宗竹 [モウソウダケ] /(n,uk) moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens)/a tall bamboo cultivated for its edible shoots/


kanji: 臈たける
kana: ろうたける
entry:
(v1,vi) to be elegant (usu. of a woman)/to be graceful/to be refined/to become well-experienced/to mature


kana: てもいい
entry:
(exp,adj-i) (after the ren'youkei form of a verb) indicates concession or compromise/indicates permission


kana: もらるはらすめんと
entry:
モラルハラスメント /(n) moral harassment/workplace mobbing/workplace bullying/psychological harassment at the workplace/


kanji: 物心が付く
kana: ものごころがつく
entry:
(exp) for a child to become old enough to understand what's going on around him/reaching the age of discretion


kanji: 大毛蓼
kana: おおけたで
entry:
大毛蓼 [オオケタデ] /(n,uk) kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (species of smartweed, Polygonum orientale)/prince's feather/


kanji: 草食系男子
kana: そうしょくけいだんし
entry:
(n) young men who are not competitive as in tradition male stereotypes, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented


kanji: 孔雀草
kana: くじゃくそう
entry:
(n,uk) marigold (esp. the French marigold, Tagetes patula)/plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria)/northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum)


kanji: 孔雀草
kana: くじゃくそう
entry:
孔雀草 [クジャクソウ] /(n,uk) marigold (esp. the French marigold, Tagetes patula)/plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria)/northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum)/


kana: きゃりーばっく
entry:
キャリーバック /(n) large bag with handles/carry bag/small case with wheels/bringing the ball back to one's own position (rugby)/


kanji: 金鍔
kana: きんつば
entry:
(n,abbr,arch) confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard)/metal sword guard/polearm


kanji: 田芥
kana: たがらし
entry:
(n,uk) celery-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus)/cursed buttercup/woodland bittercress (Cardamine flexuosa)/wavy bittercress


kanji: 田芥
kana: たがらし
entry:
田芥 [タガラシ] /(n,uk) celery-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus)/cursed buttercup/woodland bittercress (Cardamine flexuosa)/wavy bittercress/


kanji: 田芥子
kana: たがらし
entry:
田芥子 [タガラシ] /(n,uk) celery-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus)/cursed buttercup/woodland bittercress (Cardamine flexuosa)/wavy bittercress/


kanji: 躄魚
kana: いざりうお
entry:
(n,uk,sens) frogfish (any fish of family Antennariidae, esp. the striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus)


kanji: 躄魚
kana: いざりうお
entry:
躄魚 [イザリウオ] /(n,uk,sens) frogfish (any fish of family Antennariidae, esp. the striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus)/


kanji: 葛藤
kana: つづらふじ
entry:
(n,uk) Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)/complex inter-relationship (as in the struggle between two types of vine over one piece of land)


kanji: 葛藤
kana: つづらふじ
entry:
葛藤 [ツヅラフジ] /(n,uk) Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)/complex inter-relationship (as in the struggle between two types of vine over one piece of land)/


kanji: 防已
kana: つづらふじ
entry:
防已 [ツヅラフジ] /(n,uk) Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)/complex inter-relationship (as in the struggle between two types of vine over one piece of land)/


kanji: 鉄砲魚
kana: てっぽううお
entry:
鉄砲魚 [テッポウウオ] /(n,uk) archerfish (any fish of family Toxotidae, esp. the banded archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix)/


kanji: 鼠坊
kana: ねずっぽ
entry:
(n,uk) dragonet (any fish of family Callionymidae, esp. Richard's dragonet, Repomucenus richardsonii)


kanji: 鼠坊
kana: ねずっぽ
entry:
鼠坊 [ネズッポ] /(n,uk) dragonet (any fish of family Callionymidae, esp. Richard's dragonet, Repomucenus richardsonii)/


kanji: 烏帽子鳥
kana: えぼしどり
entry:
(n,uk) turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae, esp. the Knysna turaco, Tauraco corythaix)/touraco/loerie/lourie


kanji: 烏帽子鳥
kana: えぼしどり
entry:
烏帽子鳥 [エボシドリ] /(n,uk) turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae, esp. the Knysna turaco, Tauraco corythaix)/touraco/loerie/lourie/


kanji: 伝い歩き
kana: つたいあるき
entry:
(n,vs) walking while holding on to something (such as a wall or table)/cruising (i.e., children learning to walk)


kanji: 数分間
kana: すうふんかん
entry:
(exp) a few minutes/for a few minutes/for a number of minutes/for a period of a few minutes/for several minutes


kanji: 背高鷸
kana: せいたかしぎ
entry:
(n,uk) black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)/stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae)/avocet


kanji: 背高鷸
kana: せいたかしぎ
entry:
背高鷸 [セイタカシギ] /(n,uk) black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)/stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae)/avocet/


kanji: 電気鯰
kana: でんきなまず
entry:
(n,uk) electric catfish (any species of family Malapteruridae, esp. species Malapterurus electricus)


kanji: 電気鯰
kana: でんきなまず
entry:
電気鯰 [デンキナマズ] /(n,uk) electric catfish (any species of family Malapteruridae, esp. species Malapterurus electricus)/


kanji: 見合わす
kana: みあわす
entry:
(v5s,vt) to exchange glances/to look at each other/to postpone/to suspend operations/to refrain from performing an action


kanji: 裸鰯
kana: はだかいわし
entry:
裸鰯 [ハダカイワシ] /(n,uk) lantern fish (any fish of family Myctophidae, esp. Watase's lanternfish, Diaphus watasei)/


kanji: 痺鯰
kana: しびれなまず
entry:
(n,uk,obsc) electric catfish (any species of family Malapteruridae, esp. species Malapterurus electricus)


kanji: 痺鯰
kana: しびれなまず
entry:
痺鯰 [シビレナマズ] /(n,uk,obsc) electric catfish (any species of family Malapteruridae, esp. species Malapterurus electricus)/


kanji: 痺れ鯰
kana: しびれなまず
entry:
痺れ鯰 [シビレナマズ] /(n,uk,obsc) electric catfish (any species of family Malapteruridae, esp. species Malapterurus electricus)/


kanji: 蛙鮟鱇
kana: かえるあんこう
entry:
(n,uk) frogfish (any fish of family Antennariidae, esp. the striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus)


kanji: 蛙鮟鱇
kana: かえるあんこう
entry:
蛙鮟鱇 [カエルアンコウ] /(n,uk) frogfish (any fish of family Antennariidae, esp. the striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus)/


kanji: 蝦蟇鮟鱇
kana: がまあんこう
entry:
(n,uk) toadfish (any fish of family Batrachoididae, esp. the Pacuma toadfish, Batrachoides surinamensis)


kanji: 蝦蟇鮟鱇
kana: がまあんこう
entry:
蝦蟇鮟鱇 [ガマアンコウ] /(n,uk) toadfish (any fish of family Batrachoididae, esp. the Pacuma toadfish, Batrachoides surinamensis)/


kanji: 提灯鮟鱇
kana: ちょうちんあんこう
entry:
(n,uk) football fish (any fish of family Himantolophidae, esp. the Atlantic footballfish, Himantolophus groenlandicus)


kanji: 提灯鮟鱇
kana: ちょうちんあんこう
entry:
提灯鮟鱇 [チョウチンアンコウ] /(n,uk) football fish (any fish of family Himantolophidae, esp. the Atlantic footballfish, Himantolophus groenlandicus)/


kanji: ぺぽ南瓜
kana: ぺぽかぼちゃ
entry:
ペポ南瓜 [ペポカボチャ] /(n,uk) marrow (any variety of Cucurbita pepo, inc. acorn squash, spaghetti squash, etc.)/


kanji: 敦盛草
kana: あつもりそう
entry:
(n,uk) large-flowered cypripedium (species of lady's slipper, Cypripedium macranthos, esp. Cypripedium macranthos var. speciosum)


kanji: 敦盛草
kana: あつもりそう
entry:
敦盛草 [アツモリソウ] /(n,uk) large-flowered cypripedium (species of lady's slipper, Cypripedium macranthos, esp. Cypripedium macranthos var. speciosum)/


kanji: 都草
kana: みやこぐさ
entry:
(n,uk) bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus, esp. Lotus corniculatus var. japonicus)/birdsfoot trefoil


kanji: 都草
kana: みやこぐさ
entry:
都草 [ミヤコグサ] /(n,uk) bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus, esp. Lotus corniculatus var. japonicus)/birdsfoot trefoil/


kanji: 百脈根
kana: みやこぐさ
entry:
百脈根 [ミヤコグサ] /(n,uk) bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus, esp. Lotus corniculatus var. japonicus)/birdsfoot trefoil/


kanji: 夜香木
kana: やこうぼく
entry:
夜香木 [ヤコウボク] /(n,uk) night jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum)/night jasmine/lady of the night/queen of the night/


kanji: 片月見
kana: かたつきみ
entry:
(n) moon-viewing on either the night of the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunisolar calendar or on the night of the 13th day of the 9th month of the lunisolar calendar, but not both nights


kanji: 結婚活動
kana: けっこんかつどう
entry:
(n) searching for a marriage partner/marriage hunting/activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc.


kanji: 婚活
kana: こんかつ
entry:
(n,abbr) searching for a marriage partner/marriage hunting/activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc.


kanji: ちっちゃい人間
kana: ちっちゃいにんげん
entry:
(exp) person of poor character/narrow-minded/unpleasant person/gossip-monger/person of low self-esteem


kanji: 貫頭衣
kana: かんとうい
entry:
(n) simple type of clothing consisting of a large piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head


kanji: 竈
kana: くど
entry:
(n) the rear of an old-fashioned Japanese hearth from which smoke was exhausted/(in Kyoto dialect) the hearth itself


kanji: ＳＳ
kana: えすえす
entry:
ＳＳ [エスエス] /(n) speed-sensitive/suspended solids/Schutzstaffel/SS/service station/sporty sedan/shortstop/steamship/secret service/


kanji: 長押
kana: なげし
entry:
(n) beam running between columns in traditional Japanese architecture, esp. within Japanese-style rooms


kanji: けあ付き住宅
kana: けあつきじゅうたく
entry:
ケア付き住宅 [ケアつきじゅうたく] /(exp) accommodation facilities for disabled and aged people, with care provided/


kanji: 労働団体
kana: ろうどうだんたい
entry:
(n) labor body/labour body/labor organization/labour organization/labor federation/labour federation


kanji: 落とし掛け
kana: おとしがけ
entry:
(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


kanji: 落とし
kana: おとし
entry:
(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


kanji: 詰め開き
kana: つめひらき
entry:
(n,adj-no) bargaining/negotiation/turning one's body to the left or right and standing (when leaving the presence of nobility, etc.)/sailing close-hauled/sailing on a close reach


kanji: 房室
kana: ぼうしつ
entry:
(n) room/chamber/monk in charge of business in the monks' quarters/bedroom (of a married couple)/locule (in a plant ovary)/atria and ventricles


kana: はぎす
entry:
ハギス /(n) haggis (traditional Scottish dish made from a sheep's offal cooked in the animal's stomach)/


kanji: 陰にこもる
kana: いんにこもる
entry:
(exp) to stay bottled up inside oneself/to be introverted/to have a melancholic appearance, atmosphere (of a person, object, place)/to have a gloomy appearance


kanji: 変わっている
kana: かわっている
entry:
(exp,v1) to be unusual (of a person or of a thing) (derog. in some cases)/to be uncommon/to be peculiar/to be crazy/to be eccentric/to be different


kana: あぐれがしおん
entry:
アグレガシオン /(n) civil service competitive examination for some positions in the public education system in France/


kanji: 品玉
kana: しなだま
entry:
(n) tossing several items into the air and attempting to catch them all (form of street performance)/sleight of hand/magic


kanji: 放下
kana: ほうか
entry:
(n,vs,arch) discarding/abandoning/variety of street performance from the Middle Ages/casting off one's attachments (in Zen)


kana: びしり
entry:
(adv-to,on-mim) with a snap/(break) cleanly/(reject) sternly/flatly/smartly (e.g. of dressing up well).


kanji: あじあ太平洋戦争
kana: あじあたいへいようせんそう
entry:
アジア太平洋戦争 [アジアたいへいようせんそう] /(n) Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)/


kanji: あじあ太平洋戦争
kana: あじあ・たいへいようせんそう
entry:
アジア太平洋戦争 [アジア・たいへいようせんそう] /(n) Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)/


kanji: あじあ・太平洋戦争
kana: あじあたいへいようせんそう
entry:
アジア・太平洋戦争 [アジアたいへいようせんそう] /(n) Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)/


kanji: あじあ・太平洋戦争
kana: あじあ・たいへいようせんそう
entry:
アジア・太平洋戦争 [アジア・たいへいようせんそう] /(n) Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)/


kanji: 相異なる
kana: あいことなる
entry:
(v5r,vi) to be different and distinct/to be (relatively) distinct (when referring to items in a set)


kanji: 秋田蘭画
kana: あきたらんが
entry:
(n) short-lived school of Dutch-style painting that originated in the Akita feudal domain during the middle of the Edo period


kanji: 秋の七草
kana: あきのななくさ
entry:
(n) seven autumnal flowers (bush clover, Chinese silvergrass, kudzu, fringed pink, golden lace, thoroughwort, and balloon flower)


kanji: 春の七草
kana: はるのななくさ
entry:
(n) seven vernal flowers (Java water dropwort, shepherd's purse, Jersey cudweed, common chickweed, Japanese nipplewort, turnip, and daikon)


kanji: くの字に曲げる
kana: くのじにまげる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to bend over in the shape of the the character ku/to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape


kanji: 蟇目
kana: ひきめ
entry:
(n) large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia/harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits)


kanji: 束
kana: そく
entry:
(n,n-suf,ctr) lattice/counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish)/handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)


kanji: 素声
kana: しらごえ
entry:
(n) shrill voice/unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting/part of an unaccompanied poem (in Noh)


kanji: 疳
kana: かん
entry:
(n) (in Chinese medicine) infantile neurosis characterized by crying at night and convulsions/temper/nerves


kana: めろんぱん
entry:
メロンパン /(n) melon bread (sweet baked good with a bread-dough interior and a cookie-dough crust with ridges resembling a muskmelon) (wasei: melon pan)/


kanji: 野放しにする
kana: のばなしにする
entry:
(exp,vs-s) to send cattle out grazing/to leave at large (a criminal)/to leave unregulated/to leave something to take care of itself or something


kana: ばんばん
entry:
(adv,on-mim) bang bang (sound of a hammer or gunfire)/doing something at a mad pace (spend money, work)


kanji: 汚し
kana: よごし
entry:
(n-suf,n) soiling/polluting/being dirty/shame/disgrace/dishonor/dishonour/chopped fish, shellfish or vegetables, dressed with (miso or other) sauce


kanji: 押し手
kana: おして
entry:
(n,arch) seal/stamp/depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand/(in archery) left hand/obstinacy/stubbornness


kanji: 大新聞
kana: おおしんぶん
entry:
(n) type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language)/major newspaper


kanji: 亜乱炭椎
kana: あらんすみしー
entry:
亜乱炭椎 [アランスミシー] /(n) Alan Smithee (pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project)/Allen Smithee/


kana: ぶりっくす
entry:
ブリックス /(n) BRIC, BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), referring especially to the fast-growing economies of these countries/


kana: がくぶる
entry:
ガクブル /(vs,abbr,on-mim) to tremble/to shiver (from stress, fear or panic)/(figuratively) to experience a sense of stress, fear, or panic/


kana: がくがくぶるぶる
entry:
ガクガクブルブル /(vs,on-mim) to tremble/to shiver (from stress, fear or panic)/(figuratively) to experience a sense of stress, fear, or panic/


kanji: 削ぎ切り
kana: そぎぎり
entry:
(n,vs) cutting a thin object (e.g. vegetable stalk) at a 45 degree angle/cutting in a way that blunts or rounds the cut


kanji: 印褥
kana: いんじょく
entry:
(n) pad placed below the sheet on which a seal is to be pressed - used to make the seal's imprint clearer


kanji: 事始め
kana: ことはじめ
entry:
(n) taking up a new line of work/the beginning of things/starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto)/resuming work after the New Year's vacation


kanji: 押し競饅頭
kana: おしくらまんじゅう
entry:
(n) children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards


kanji: 磯撫で
kana: いそなで
entry:
(n) mythical shark-like demon sea monster with barbed tail fin, said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan/Beach Stroker


kana: ぷちぷらいす
entry:
プチプライス /(n) inexpensive fashion accessories (e.g. clothes, makeup, etc.) (word used by young women) (wasei: petite price)/


kana: ぷち・ぷらいす
entry:
プチ・プライス /(n) inexpensive fashion accessories (e.g. clothes, makeup, etc.) (word used by young women) (wasei: petite price)/


kana: ぷちぷら
entry:
プチプラ /(n,abbr) inexpensive fashion accessories (e.g. clothes, makeup, etc.) (word used by young women)/


kanji: 帰宅困難者
kana: きたくこんなんしゃ
entry:
(n) travellers (e.g. commuters, students, etc.) who have difficulty returning home, esp. after a large-scale earthquake


kana: もがな
entry:
(prt) particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.)


kana: たりけり
entry:
(exp,aux-v,arch) auxiliary verb indicating past condition or occurrence (e.g. "was", "had been", etc.)


kana: なりけり
entry:
(exp,aux-v,arch) auxiliary verb indicating the speaker's personal recollection or something they've heard (e.g. "was", "wasn't it?", "is said to have ...", etc.)


kanji: 召される
kana: めされる
entry:
(v1,vt,hon,suf,v5s,arch) to do/to eat/to drink/to put on/to wear/to buy/to ride/to catch (a cold)/to take (a bath)/to tickle (one's fancy)/to put on (years)/to commit (seppuku)


kanji: 懇意になる
kana: こんいになる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to get (become) acquainted/to get to know/to get (become) intimate with/to become friendly with/to become friends


kanji: 棊布
kana: きふ
entry:
(n,vs,arch,obsc) scattering (e.g. of islands, Go pieces, etc., often in a harmonious balance)/dispersal/constellation/irregular spread


kanji: 化け
kana: ばけ
entry:
(n,adj-no) transforming oneself/taking on another form/disguising oneself/artificial fly (for fishing)


kanji: 台湾栗鼠
kana: たいわんりす
entry:
台湾栗鼠 [タイワンリス] /(n,uk) Taiwanese squirrel (subspecies of Pallas's squirrel, Callosciurus erythraeus thaiwanensis)/


kana: のか
entry:
(prt) endorsing and questioning the preceding statement (sentence ending particle)/lamenting reflections on the preceding statement (sentence ending particle)


kanji: 王座を占める
kana: おうざをしめる
entry:
(exp,v5r) to occupy the throne/to sit on the royal throne/to be at the top/to hold the premier position/to win a championship


kanji: 祝
kana: はふり
entry:
(n,pol,obsc) generic title for a member of the Shinto priesthood/Shinto priest of lower rank than kannushi and negi


kanji: 金文
kana: きんぶん
entry:
(n) Chinese bronze inscriptions/type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties


kanji: 糸道
kana: いとみち
entry:
(n) groove in a Shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument/someone's ability to play the shamisen


kanji: 道芝
kana: みちしば
entry:
(n) roadside grass/roadside weeds/guidance (sometimes esp. referring to guidance in love)/guidepost/guide/Chinese fountain grass (Pennisetum alopecuroides)


kanji: 蜀
kana: しょく
entry:
(n) Shu (one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty)/Shu Han


kanji: 蜀江の錦
kana: しょっこうのにしき
entry:
(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


kanji: 雑魚きゃらくたー
kana: ざこきゃらくたー
entry:
雑魚キャラクター [ざこキャラクター] /(n) inconsequential character in a game, anime, drama or manga/worthless character/mook/


kanji: ・
kana: なかぽつ
entry:
・ [なかポツ] /(n) middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.)/full-stop mark at mid-character height/interpoint (interword separation)/


kanji: 中ぽつ
kana: なかぽつ
entry:
中ぽつ [なかポツ] /(n) middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.)/full-stop mark at mid-character height/interpoint (interword separation)/


kanji: 中ぽつ
kana: なかぽつ
entry:
中ポツ [なかぽつ] /(n) middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.)/full-stop mark at mid-character height/interpoint (interword separation)/


kanji: 中ぽつ
kana: なかぽつ
entry:
中ポツ [なかポツ] /(n) middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.)/full-stop mark at mid-character height/interpoint (interword separation)/


kanji: 歴女
kana: れきじょ
entry:
(n) young woman strongly interested in pre-Edo history/young woman making use of speech and mannerisms of pre-industrial Japan/female history buff


kanji: 応用編
kana: おうようへん
entry:
(n) problem in a mathematics textbook in which previously learned skills are applied to real world situations/practical assessment


kanji: 痛車
kana: いたしゃ
entry:
(n,col) car painted with anime characters and loaded with figures and stuffed dolls (lit: 'painful car' because some people consider it painful to look at)


kanji: 痛車
kana: いたし
entry:
痛車 [イタし] /(n,col) car painted with anime characters and loaded with figures and stuffed dolls (lit: 'painful car' because some people consider it painful to look at)/


kanji: いた車
kana: いたしゃ
entry:
イタ車 [いたしゃ] /(n,col) car painted with anime characters and loaded with figures and stuffed dolls (lit: 'painful car' because some people consider it painful to look at)/


kanji: いた車
kana: いたし
entry:
イタ車 [イタし] /(n,col) car painted with anime characters and loaded with figures and stuffed dolls (lit: 'painful car' because some people consider it painful to look at)/


kanji: おた車
kana: おたしゃ
entry:
オタ車 [オタしゃ] /(n,col) otaku car (painted with anime characters, loaded with figures and stuffed dolls, etc.)/


kanji: をた車
kana: をたしゃ
entry:
ヲタ車 [ヲタしゃ] /(n,col) otaku car (painted with anime characters, loaded with figures and stuffed dolls, etc.)/


kanji: 杉玉
kana: すぎたま
entry:
(n) ball-like object made of Japanese cedar which is hung by sake brewers outside their brewery in the eaves to inform people that a new brew of sake has been produced


kanji: つる返し
kana: つるがえし
entry:
(n,uk) digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product


kanji: 花炭
kana: はなずみ
entry:
(n) flower charcoal (whereby a flower, seed, branch, or other item of flora is carbonized as is, retaining its form)


kanji: 擦り半鐘
kana: すりばんしょう
entry:
(n) fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near/sound as produced by this alarm


kana: いである
entry:
イデアル /(n,adj-no) ideal/ideal in a ring (i.e. subset of a ring closed under addition and multiplication by elements of the ambient ring)/


kanji: 福笹
kana: ふくざさ
entry:
(n) lucky bamboo branch given out at an Ebisu shrine during the Toka Ebisu Business Success Festival between Jan 9-11


kanji: 包袋
kana: ほうたい
entry:
(n) file wrapper for a patent/correspondence about the status of a patent between the inventor and the patent office


kanji: 法体
kana: ほったい
entry:
(n) clerical appearance/appearance of a priest/teachings of Buddha/condition of the universe at creation/in the pure land teachings, the name of Amitabha, or prayers to Amitabha


kanji: 正丁
kana: せいてい
entry:
(n) under the Ritsuryo system, a man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes


kanji: 加工交易
kana: かこうこうえき
entry:
(n) processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)


kana: まおまお
entry:
マオマオ /(n) green damselfish (Abudefduf abdominalis)/Hawaiian sergeant/Hawaiian sergeant-major damselfish/Maomao/


kana: さーじゃんとめいじゃーだむぜるふぃっしゅ
entry:
サージャントメイジャーダムゼルフィッシュ /(n) green damselfish (Abudefduf abdominalis)/Hawaiian sergeant/Hawaiian sergeant-major damselfish/Maomao/


kana: ふたすじひめじ
entry:
フタスジヒメジ /(n) doublebar goatfish (Parupeneus trifasciatus, was Parupeneus bifasciatus)/Indian Ocean member of the Parupeneus trifasciatus complex/


kana: はわいあんくりーなーらす
entry:
ハワイアンクリーナーラス /(n) Hawaiian cleaner wrasse (Labroides phthirophagus)/rainbow cleaner wrasse/golden cleaner wrasse/


kana: れいんぼーくりーなーらす
entry:
レインボークリーナーラス /(n) Hawaiian cleaner wrasse (Labroides phthirophagus)/rainbow cleaner wrasse/golden cleaner wrasse/


kana: ごーるでんくりーなーらす
entry:
ゴールデンクリーナーラス /(n) Hawaiian cleaner wrasse (Labroides phthirophagus)/rainbow cleaner wrasse/golden cleaner wrasse/


kana: はわいくりーなーらす
entry:
ハワイクリーナーラス /(n) Hawaiian cleaner wrasse (Labroides phthirophagus)/rainbow cleaner wrasse/golden cleaner wrasse/


kanji: 初午
kana: はつうま
entry:
(exp) first "horse day" in any lunar month, but esp. the second lunar month/traditional day for worship at "fox deity" shrines


kanji: 腹を割って話す
kana: はらをわってはなす
entry:
(exp,v5s) to speak frankly/to speak unreservedly/to open up to each other/to talk candidly/to speak by laying everything on the table/to talk straight from the gut


kana: もらはら
entry:
モラハラ /(n,abbr) moral harassment/workplace mobbing/workplace bullying/psychological harassment at the workplace/


kana: れこーでぃんぐだいえっと
entry:
レコーディングダイエット /(n) weight-loss diet accompanied by meticulous notes about when and what one has eaten/


kanji: 願人坊主
kana: がんにんぼうず
entry:
(n) priest who was also a street performer and performed prayers and other religious duties for the sake of other people


kanji: 當十錢
kana: とうじゅうぜん
entry:
(n) type of bronze Chinese coin first issued under Emperor Yuan of the Southern Liang dynasty worth the value of ten iron coins


kanji: 徳政令
kana: とくせいれい
entry:
(n,arch) debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods)


kanji: 割座
kana: わりざ
entry:
(n) sitting posture with the legs bent back on each side/Japanese traditional informal female sitting posture/w-sitting/reverse tailor style sitting


kanji: ０９０金融
kana: ぜろきゅーぜろきんゆう
entry:
０９０金融 [ゼロキューゼロきんゆう] /(n) "090" financing/loan sharks operating from a cellphone (i.e. without a fixed phone number)/


kanji: 電郵
kana: でんゆう
entry:
(n,abbr) (an item of) electronic mail (e-mail)/e-mail message/electronic mail (e-mail) service/electronic mail (e-mail) system


kanji: 赤べこ
kana: あかべこ
entry:
(n) toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox


kanji: 一事が万事
kana: いちじがばんじ
entry:
(exp) a single instance indicates what happens all the time/one case gives you an idea of what always happens


kanji: 旧情
kana: きゅうじょう
entry:
(exp) old friendship/old love/old acquaintance/reawakened feeling, emotion, passion, sentiment, etc.


kanji: 配光
kana: はいこう
entry:
(n) light distribution (e.g. in candle-power or candela)/luminous intensity distribution/spatial distribution of luminous intensity


kanji: 接合温度
kana: せつごうおんど
entry:
(n) bonding temperature (for diffusion bonding)/welding temperature (for diffusion welding)/junction temperature (of a semiconductor)


kanji: 先に立つ
kana: さきにたつ
entry:
(exp,v5t,vi) to lead/to take the initiative/to take precedence (e.g. sadness taking precedence over anger)/to be most essential


kana: みれっとしーどばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
ミレットシードバタフライフィッシュ /(n) millet butterflyfish (Chaetodon miliaris)/lemon butterflyfish/milletseed butterflyfish/


kana: はわいあんばいからーくろみす
entry:
ハワイアンバイカラークロミス /(n) Hawaiian bicolor chromis (Chromis hanui)/chocolate-dip chromis/chocolate dip damsel/


kana: きつねべら
entry:
キツネベラ /(n) Hawaiian hogfish (Bodianus albotaeniatus)/tarry hogfish (Bodianus bilunulatus)/saddleback hogfish (Bodianus bilunulatus)/


kana: みぞれちょうちょううお
entry:
ミゾレチョウチョウウオ /(n) sunburst butterflyfish (Chaetodon kleinii)/blacklip butterflyfish/Klein's butterflyfish/whitespotted butterflyfish/


kana: はたたてだい
entry:
ハタタテダイ /(n) pennant coralfish (Heniochus acuminatus)/common bannerfish/feather-fin bullfish/featherfin coralfish/longfin bannerfish/reef bannerfish/


kanji: ぶら下がり
kana: ぶらさがり
entry:
(n,id,adj-f) cornering someone by lying in wait, e.g. for an unexpected interview or photograph/doorstepping/hanging/dangling


kanji: 手水鉢
kana: ちょうずばち
entry:
(n) stoup or font for ritual cleansing of hands and mouth with water when visiting a shrine or temple


kanji: 単板
kana: たんばん
entry:
(n,adj-f) veneer (e.g. wood products)/single panel (e.g. electronics, optics, automotive)/single plate


kanji: 応用科学大学
kana: おうようかがくだいがく
entry:
(n) university of applied science (e.g. the Dutch "Hogeschool" and the German "Fachhochschule" institutes of higher education)


kana: いってんちょうちょううお
entry:
イッテンチョウチョウウオ /(n) teardrop butterflyfish (Chaetodon unimaculatus)/teardrop coralfish/one-spot butterfly/


kana: みすじちょうちょううお
entry:
ミスジチョウチョウウオ /(n) oval butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunulatus)/pinstripe butterflyfish/redfin butterflyfish/


kana: ぶらっくぴらみっどばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
ブラックピラミッドバタフライフィッシュ /(n) brown-and-white butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys zoster)/black pyramid butterflyfish/


kana: こらーればたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
コラーレバタフライフィッシュ /(n) redtail butterflyfish (Chaetodon collare)/brown butterflyfish/collared butterflyfish/


kana: まだがすかるばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
マダガスカルバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Seychelles butterflyfish (Chaetodon madagaskariensis)/Madagascar butterflyfish/Indian Ocean chevron butterflyfish/pearlscale butterflyfish/pearly butterflyfish/


kana: さどるばっくばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
サドルバックバタフライフィッシュ /(n) blackwedged butterflyfish (Chaetodon falcula)/saddled butterflyfish/pigface coralfish/sickle butterflyfish/Indian double-saddle butterflyfish/


kana: いんどすだれ
entry:
インドスダレ /(n) blackwedged butterflyfish (Chaetodon falcula)/saddled butterflyfish/pigface coralfish/sickle butterflyfish/Indian double-saddle butterflyfish/


kana: はくてんかたぎ
entry:
ハクテンカタギ /(n) mailed butterflyfish (Chaetodon reticulatus)/mailed coralfish/reticulated butterflyfish/black butterflyfish/


kana: あみめちょうちょううお
entry:
アミメチョウチョウウオ /(n) pearlscale butterflyfish (Chaetodon xanthurus)/orange butterflyfish/netted butterflyfish/


kana: れもんちょうちょううお
entry:
レモンチョウチョウウオ /(n) dotted butterflyfish (Chaetodon semeion)/decorated butterflyfish/golden butterflyfish/


kana: ごーるでんばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
ゴールデンバタフライフィッシュ /(n) bluecheek butterflyfish (Chaetodon semilarvatus)/addis butterflyfish/golden butterflyfish/redlined butterflyfish/


kana: ぶらっくちーくばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
ブラックチークバタフライフィッシュ /(n) bluecheek butterflyfish (Chaetodon semilarvatus)/addis butterflyfish/golden butterflyfish/redlined butterflyfish/


kana: れっどしーらくーんばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
レッドシーラクーンバタフライフィッシュ /(n) diagonal butterflyfish (Chaetodon fasciatus)/Red Sea raccoon butterflyfish/


kana: れっどばっくばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
レッドバックバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Eritrean butterflyfish (Chaetodon paucifasciatus)/crown butterflyfish/Red Sea chevron butterflyfish/


kana: べにおちょうちょううお
entry:
ベニオチョウチョウウオ /(n) atoll butterflyfish (Chaetodon mertensii)/Merten's butterflyfish/keel-finned butterfly-fish/orangebar butterflyfish/


kana: てんつきちょうちょううお
entry:
テンツキチョウチョウウオ /(n) sixspine butterflyfish (Parachaetodon ocellatus)/ocellate coralfish/eye-spot butterflyfish/ocellate butterflyfish/


kana: はしながちょうちょううお
entry:
ハシナガチョウチョウウオ /(n) copperband butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus)/banded longsnout butterflyfish/beaked butterflyfish/beaked coralfish/longnose butterflyfish/


kana: あみあいご
entry:
アミアイゴ /(n) little spinefoot (Siganus spinus)/black spinefoot/black trevally/blue-spotted trevally/spiny rabbitfish/


kana: いえろーてーるすたーりー・らびっとふぃっしゅ
entry:
イエローテールスターリー・ラビットフィッシュ /(n) brown-spotted spinefoot (Siganus stellatus)/starspotted spinefoot/tellate rabbitfish/


kana: はなあいご
entry:
ハナアイゴ /(n) streamlined spinefoot (Siganus argenteus)/Roman-nose spinefoot/forktail rabbitfish/rabbitface spinefoot/


kana: まじりあいご
entry:
マジリアイゴ /(n) masked spinefoot (species of fish, Siganus puellus)/bluelined rabbitfish/bluelined spinefoot/maiden spinefoot/


kana: じゃわらびっとふぃっしゅ
entry:
ジャワラビットフィッシュ /(n) streaked spinefoot (species of rabbitfish, Siganus javus)/bluespotted spinefoot/Java rabbitfish/


kana: せだかやっこ
entry:
セダカヤッコ /(n) yellowbar angelfish (Pomacanthus maculosus)/yellowband angelfish/yellowblotch angelfish/


kanji: きんちゃくだい属
kana: きんちゃくだいぞく
entry:
キンチャクダイ属 [キンチャクダイぞく] /(n) Chaetodontoplus (genus of marine angelfishes in the family Pomacanthidae)/


kanji: ちょうちょううお属
kana: ちょうちょううおぞく
entry:
チョウチョウウオ属 [チョウチョウウオぞく] /(n) Chaetodon (genus of tropical butterflyfish in the family Chaetodontidae)/


kana: ぶらっくすぽってぃどばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
ブラックスポッティドバタフライフィッシュ /(n) black-spotted butterflyfish (Chaetodon nigropunctatus)/mystery butterflyfish/


kana: あさりうすばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
アサリウスバタフライフィッシュ /(n) West Australian butterflyfish (Chaetodon assarius)/Assarius butterflyfish/Western butterflyfish/


kana: うぇすとおーすとらりあんばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
ウェストオーストラリアンバタフライフィッシュ /(n) West Australian butterflyfish (Chaetodon assarius)/Assarius butterflyfish/Western butterflyfish/


kana: まるけさすばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
マルケサスバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Marquesas butterflyfish (Chaetodon declivis declivis)/Wilder's butterflyfish (Chaetodon declivis wilderi)/


kana: まるけさんばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
マルケサンバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Marquesas butterflyfish (Chaetodon declivis declivis)/Wilder's butterflyfish (Chaetodon declivis wilderi)/


kana: わいるだーずばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
ワイルダーズバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Marquesas butterflyfish (Chaetodon declivis declivis)/Wilder's butterflyfish (Chaetodon declivis wilderi)/


kana: いんでぃあんヴぁがぼんどばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
インディアンヴァガボンドバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Indian vagabond butterflyfish (Chaetodon decussatus)/blackened butterflyfish/black-finned vagabond/


kana: いんどふうらい
entry:
インドフウライ /(n) Indian vagabond butterflyfish (Chaetodon decussatus)/blackened butterflyfish/black-finned vagabond/


kana: くろふうらいちょうちょううお
entry:
クロフウライチョウチョウウオ /(n) Indian vagabond butterflyfish (Chaetodon decussatus)/blackened butterflyfish/black-finned vagabond/


kana: はわいあんごーるどばーどばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
ハワイアンゴールドバードバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Hawaiian gold-barred butterflyfish (Roa excelsa, formerly Chaetodon excelsa)/


kana: がいあなばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
ガイアナバタフライフィッシュ /(n) French butterflyfish (Prognathodes guyanensis, was Chaetodon guyanensis)/Guyana butterflyfish/


kana: ふれんちばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
フレンチバタフライフィッシュ /(n) French butterflyfish (Prognathodes guyanensis, was Chaetodon guyanensis)/Guyana butterflyfish/


kana: たすきちょうちょううお
entry:
タスキチョウチョウウオ /(n) French butterflyfish (Prognathodes guyanensis, was Chaetodon guyanensis)/Guyana butterflyfish/


kana: ぎあなばたふらい
entry:
ギアナバタフライ /(n) French butterflyfish (Prognathodes guyanensis, was Chaetodon guyanensis)/Guyana butterflyfish/


kana: いんでぃあんごーるどばーどばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
インディアンゴールドバードバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Indian golden-barred butterflyfish (Roa jayakari, was Chaetodon jayakari)/


kana: めろんばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
メロンバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Melon butterflyfish (Chaetodon trifasciatus)/Redfin butterflyfish/three-banded coralfish/lineated butterflyfish/


kana: れっどふぃんばたふらいふぃっしゅ
entry:
レッドフィンバタフライフィッシュ /(n) Melon butterflyfish (Chaetodon trifasciatus)/Redfin butterflyfish/three-banded coralfish/lineated butterflyfish/


kana: ばんでぃっどえんじぇるふぃっしゅ
entry:
バンディッドエンジェルフィッシュ /(n) banded angelfish (Apolemichthys arcuatus, was Holacanthus arcuatus)/black-banded angel/bandit angelfish/


kana: こんすぴきゅおすえんじぇるふぃっしゅ
entry:
コンスピキュオスエンジェルフィッシュ /(n) conspicuous angelfish (Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus)/spectacled angelfish/


kana: くいーんずらんどいえろーてーるえんじぇるふぃっしゅ
entry:
クイーンズランドイエローテールエンジェルフィッシュ /(n) Queensland yellowtail angelfish (Chaetodontoplus meredithi)/Meredith's angelfish/


kanji: 注目を集める
kana: ちゅうもくをあつめる
entry:
(exp,v1) to gather (attract, receive) attention/to have a high profile/to gain prominence/to become popular


kana: まーじんどこーらるふぃっしゅ
entry:
マージンドコーラルフィッシュ /(n) margined coralfish (Chelmon marginalis)/Western beaked butterflyfish/Willemawillum/


kanji: かすみちょうちょううお属
kana: かすみちょうちょううおぞく
entry:
カスミチョウチョウウオ属 [カスミチョウチョウウオぞく] /(n) Hemitaurichthys (genus of tropical butterflyfish in the family Chaetodontidae)/


kana: ほうらいひめじ
entry:
ホウライヒメジ /(n) whitesaddle goatfish (Parupeneus ciliatus)/white-lined goatfish/diamondscale goatfish/cardinal goatfish/


kanji: 外省人
kana: がいしょうじん
entry:
(n) (China) someone from outside one's own province/(Taiwan) someone who moved to Taiwan from the continent after WWII


kanji: 本省人
kana: ほんしょうじん
entry:
(n) (China) someone from one's own province/(Taiwan) someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave


kanji: 不本意ながら
kana: ふほんいながら
entry:
(adv) involuntarily/reluctantly/against one's inclination/against one's will/as a matter of unpleasant necessity/despite oneself


kanji: 薹が立つ
kana: とうがたつ
entry:
(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


kanji: 禹歩
kana: うほ
entry:
(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


kanji: 反閇
kana: へんばい
entry:
(n) ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip/dance steps inspired by this ceremony


kana: ぐりーんばーどまうすらす
entry:
グリーンバードマウスラス /(n) green birdmouth wrasse (Gomphosus caeruleus)/checkerboard wrasse/Indian Ocean bird wrasse/


kanji: あいご属
kana: あいごぞく
entry:
アイゴ属 [アイゴぞく] /(n) Siganus (genus of perciform fishes in the family Siganidae)/rabbitfish/spinefoot/foxface/


kana: がらぱごすりんぐてーるだむせるふぃっしゅ
entry:
ガラパゴスリングテールダムセルフィッシュ /(n) Southern whitetail major (Stegastes beebei)/Galapagos ringtail damselfish/


kana: ぱなまにあんさーじゃんと
entry:
パナマニアンサージャント /(n) Panamic sergeant major (Abudefduf troschelii)/Panama sergeant major/Panamanian sergeant/


kana: ぱなみっくさーじぇんとめじゃー
entry:
パナミックサージェントメジャー /(n) Panamic sergeant major (Abudefduf troschelii)/Panama sergeant major/Panamanian sergeant/


kanji: 海底撈月
kana: はいていらおゆえ
entry:
(n) Haitei winning hand in mahjong/winning on the last tile drawn from the wall/scooping the moon from the bottom of the sea


kana: ろはす
entry:
ロハス /(n) Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability (market segment made up of ecologically conscious consumers)/LOHAS/


kana: ろはーす
entry:
ロハース /(n) Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability (market segment made up of ecologically conscious consumers)/LOHAS/


kana: もんつきべら
entry:
モンツキベラ /(n) Diana's hogfish (Bodianus diana)/Bodianus dictynna (separate species from B. diana since 2006)/


kana: あかほしきつねべら
entry:
アカホシキツネベラ /(n) lined hogfish (Bodianus leucosticticus)/Bodianus rubrisos (declared separate species from B. leucosticticus in 2006)/


kanji: あうろのから属
kana: あうろのからぞく
entry:
アウロノカラ属 [アウロノカラぞく] /(n) Aulonocara (genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa)/peacock cichlids/


kana: あうろのからえてるヴぁいなえ
entry:
アウロノカラエテルヴァイナエ /(n) Chitande aulonocara (species of peacock cichlid, Aulonocara ethelwynnae)/Northern Aulonocara/


kana: あうろのからばえんし
entry:
アウロノカラバエンシ /(n) Nkhomo-benga peacock (species of peacock cichlid, Aulonocara baenschi)/new yellow regal/yellow peacock/


kana: あうろのからはんすばえんしぃ
entry:
アウロノカラハンスバエンシィ /(n) Aulonocara Fort Maguire (species of peacock cichlid, Aulonocara hansbaenschi)/firebird cichlid/


kana: あうろのからふえせり
entry:
アウロノカラフエセリ /(n) night aulonocara (species of peacock cichlid, Aulonocara hueseri)/Aulonocara white top/


kana: あうろのからやこぶふらいべるぎ
entry:
アウロノカラヤコブフライベルギ /(n) fairy cichlid (species of peacock cichlid, Aulonocara jacobfreibergi)/Malawi butterfly/


kana: こーねりあえ
entry:
コーネリアエ /(n) Aulonocara chizumulu (species of peacock cichlid, Aulonocara korneliae)/Aulonocara blue gold/


kana: しろいそはぜ
entry:
シロイソハゼ /(n) spotted fringefin goby (Eviota albolineata)/white-barred pygmy-goby/whiteline pygmy goby/


