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Kanji | Spelling | Definition |
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祖先 | そせん | ancestor |
夕日 | ゆうひ | evening sun; setting sun |
客席 | きゃくせき | 1. guest seating (e.g. theater, stadium); passenger seat (e.g. taxi) 2. audience |
四十代 | よんじゅうだい | よんじゅうだい |
額 | がく | 1. picture (framed) 2. amount or sum (of money) |
上映 | じょうえい | screening (a movie); showing |
仲 | なか | relation; relationship |
幕 | まく | 1. curtain; bunting 2. act (in play) |
使い | つかい | 1. errand; mission; going as envoy 2. messenger; bearer; errand boy; errand girl 3. familiar spirit 4. use; usage; user; trainer; tamer; charmer |
頂点 | ちょうてん | top; summit |
そっくり | 1. all; altogether; entirely; completely 2. exactly like; just like | |
長大 | ちょうだい | very long; great length |
小麦 | こむぎ | wheat |
杉 | すぎ | Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) |
同盟 | どうめい | alliance; union; league |
夢中 | むちゅう | daze; (in a) trance; ecstasy; delirium; engrossment; within a (deep) dream |
正規 | せいき | regular; normal; formal; legal; established; legitimate |
外観 | がいかん | appearance; exterior; facade; |
騒動 | そうどう | 1. strife; riot; rebellion; turmoil 2. (media) uproar; brouhaha; (public) outcry; scandal; controversy 3. feud; tussle; quarrel; dispute |
満点 | まんてん | 1. perfect score; full marks 2. extremely; very; quite |
高山 | こうざん | high mountain; alpine |
移行 | いこう | switching over to; migration; transition |
不要 | ふよう | unnecessary; unneeded |
継ぐ | つぐ | to succeed (someone in a business or inheritance) |
京阪 | けいはん | Kyoto-Osaka |
国防 | こくぼう | national defence; national defense |
原点 | げんてん | origin (coordinates); starting point |
同期 | どうき | 1. contemporary; corresponding period; same period; same class 2. employee who joined the company in the same year as oneself; classmate; one's contemporary |
上位 | じょうい | superior (in rank); top; ranking |
抽選 | ちゅうせん | lottery; raffle; drawing (of lots) |
世論 | よろん | public opinion |
歳 | さい | 1. -years-old 2. ability; gift; talent; aptitude; genius |
上演 | じょうえん | performance (e.g. music, theatre, opera); staging |
固有 | こゆう | characteristic; traditional; peculiar; inherent; native; eigen- |
黒字 | くろじ | balance (figure) in the black |
趣旨 | しゅし | 1. meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; effect 2. goal; intent; object; aim; point |
飾り | かざり | decoration |
走行 | そうこう | running a wheeled vehicle (e.g. car); running to program, job, etc.; traveling; travelling |
縛る | しばる | to tie; to bind |
試し | ためし | trial; test |
黒板 | こくばん | blackboard |
野党 | やとう | opposition party; political opposition; opposition |
独占 | どくせん | 1. monopoly; monopolization 2. hogging; keeping to oneself |
正 | せい | 1. (logical) true; regular 3. original 4. positive; greater than zero |
恐れる | おそれる | to fear; to be afraid of |
仕上げ | しあげ | end; finishing touches; being finished |
勝敗 | しょうはい | victory or defeat; issue (of battle); outcome |
合理 | ごうり | rational |
敵 | てき | 1. opponent; rival; adversary 2. menace; danger; threat; enemy |
告げる | つげる | 1. to tell; to inform; to announce 2. to indicate; to signal; to mark |
緑色 | みどりいろ | green; emerald green; green color of new foliage; verdure |
食器 | しょっき | tableware |
中小 | ちゅうしょう | small to medium |
母校 | ぼこう | the school, college, or university that one once attended |
格差 | かくさ | qualitative difference; disparity |
余地 | よち | place; room; margin; scope |
刊行 | かんこう | publication; issue |
脚本 | きゃくほん | script; screenplay; scenario |
首脳 | しゅのう | 1. head; leader; leading spirit 2. important part |
沿岸 | えんがん | coast; shore; littoral |
学園 | がくえん | academy; campus |
法学 | ほうがく | law; jurisprudence |
開通 | かいつう | opening; open; taking effect; becoming active |
大衆 | たいしゅう | general public; the masses |
偏見 | へんけん | prejudice; narrow view; bias |
区間 | くかん | 1. section (of track, etc.); segment; dimension 2. interval (mathematics) |
停留所 | ていりゅうじょ | bus stop; tram stop; stop; station |
着替える | きがえる | to change one's clothes |
表示 | ひょうじ | indication; expression; showing; manifestation; demonstration |
ぶつかる | 1. to strike against; to collide with; to bump into; to conflict 2. to encounter; to meet 3. to clash | |
操縦 | そうじゅう | 1. steering; piloting; flying; control; operation; handling 2. management; handling; control; manipulation |
怪しい | あやしい | 1. suspicious; dubious; doubtful; dodgy; suspicious 2. charming; bewitching; mysterious |
いわば | so to speak; so to call it; as it were | |
設ける | もうける | 1. to prepare ahead of time 2. to create; to establish |
半月 | はんつき | 1. half-moon 2. half month 3. semicircle |
表す | あらわす | 1. to represent; to signify; to stand for 2. to reveal; to show; to display 3. to express 4. to make widely known |
原爆 | げんばく | atomic bomb |
体質 | たいしつ | 1. constitution (physical); genetic make-up; predisposition (to disease) 2. structure (e.g. of an organization); innate characteristics; make-up; nature; culture |
余計 | よけい | 1. too many; too much; excessive 2. unnecessary; needless; uncalled-for 3. abundantly; excessively; needlessly |
病む | やむ | to fall ill; to be ill |
苦しむ | くるしむ | to suffer; to groan; to be worried |
餌 | えさ | 1. (animal) feed; fodder; pet food 2. bait; lure; enticement |
記載 | きさい | record; statement; description; mention; listing; registration; booking; entry |
水上 | すいじょう | aquatic; on the water |
次第に | しだいに | 1. gradually (progress into a state) 2. in sequence; in order; in turn |
創作 | そうさく | production; literary creation; work |
絵本 | えほん | picture book |
相場 | そうば | 1. market price 2. speculation (e.g. on stocks) 3. reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation; esteem |
強さ | つよさ | strength; power |
市長 | しちょう | Mayor |
出現 | しゅつげん | appearance; arrival; make one's appearance |
貴族 | きぞく | noble; aristocrat |
始発 | しはつ | 1. first departure (of the day: train, bus, etc.); first train; first bus 2. departing one's home station (of a train, bus, etc.) |
電源 | でんげん | 1. source of electricity; electrical power 2. power (button on TV, etc.) |
一連 | いちれん | 1. series; chain; sequence 3. verse; stanza |
転換 | てんかん | conversion; diversion; changeover; commutation; switchover |
風船 | ふうせん | balloon (esp. small, toy variety) |
外食 | がいしょく | eating out |
短縮 | たんしゅく | shortening; abbreviation; reduction |
本土 | ほんど | mainland; one's home country; the country proper |
掘る | ほる | 1. to dig; to excavate; to hollow 2. to delve into 3. to dig up (e.g. vegetables) 4. (for two men) to have a.... s... |