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Kanji | Spelling | Definition |
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光線 | こうせん | beam; light ray |
人柄 | ひとがら | personality; character; personal appearance; gentility |
共感 | きょうかん | sympathy; empathy; response |
現行 | げんこう | present; current; in operation |
王国 | おうこく | kingdom; monarchy |
平気 | へいき | 1. coolness; calmness; composure; unconcern 2. all right; OK; okay |
前向き | まえむき | facing forward; front-facing; forward-looking; positive; proactive |
野心 | やしん | ambition; aspiration; designs; treachery |
後日 | ごじつ | in the future; another day; later |
種目 | しゅもく | event; item of business |
着工 | ちゃっこう | start of (construction) work |
挿絵 | さしえ | illustration (e.g. book); picture |
真夏 | まなつ | midsummer |
分担 | ぶんたん | apportionment; allotment; share |
仮定 | かてい | assumption; supposition; hypothesis |
炎 | ほのお | 1. flame; blaze 2. flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion |
標識 | ひょうしき | sign; mark; flag |
新規 | しんき | new; fresh |
管轄 | かんかつ | jurisdiction; control |
音声 | おんせい | voice; (the concept of) sound |
越す | こす | 1. to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across 2. to go over (e.g. with audience) 3. to pass time (e.g. a winter) |
感激 | かんげき | deep emotion; impression; inspiration |
埋める | うめる | 1. to bury (e.g. in the ground) 2. to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed 3. to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap) |
勤労 | きんろう | labor; labour; exertion; diligent service |
巻き込む | まきこむ | to roll up; to involve; to enfold; to swallow up; to drag into |
文庫 | ぶんこ | 1. library; book collection 2. paperback book |
付き合い | つきあい | association; socializing; socialising; fellowship |
繁殖 | はんしょく | breed; multiply; increase; propagation |
傑作 | けっさく | 1. masterpiece; best work 2. amusing blunder; funny mistake |
辞退 | じたい | declining; refusal; nonacceptance; turning down |
不振 | ふしん | dullness; depression; slump; stagnation |
詐欺 | さぎ | fraud; swindle; graft; cheating; trick; scam |
海軍 | かいぐん | navy |
装飾 | そうしょく | ornament |
代える | かえる | 1. to replace 2. to exchange; to interchange 3. to substitute |
支社 | ししゃ | branch office |
内陸 | ないりく | inland |
票 | ひょう | 1. vote; ballot 2. label; ticket; tag; stub |
時折 | ときおり | sometimes |
例える | たとえる | to compare; to liken; to speak figuratively; to illustrate; to use a simile |
横綱 | よこづな | 1. yokozuna (highest rank in sumo); grand champion 2. best in its field; crème de la crème; cream of the crop |
合間 | あいま | interval; break; pause; spare moment |
捕らえる | とらえる | 1. to seize; to capture; to arrest 2. to grasp; to perceive; to treat (as) |
周期 | しゅうき | cycle; period |
乏しい | とぼしい | meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; lacking; scanty; poor |
動詞 | どうし | verb |
描写 | びょうしゃ | depiction; description; portrayal |
拘束 | こうそく | restriction; restraint; binding; constraint |
模型 | もけい | model; dummy; maquette |
生殖 | せいしょく | reproduction |
教わる | おそわる | to be taught (by); to learn from |
絶滅 | ぜつめつ | destruction; extinction |
本能 | ほんのう | instinct |
実情 | じつじょう | real condition; actual circumstances; actual state of affairs |
役場 | やくば | town hall |
顧客 | こきゃく | customer; client; patron |
気まぐれ | きまぐれ | whim; caprice; whimsy; fickle; moody; uneven temper |
解体 | かいたい | demolition; disassembly; dismantling |
捜索 | そうさく | search (esp. for someone or something missing); investigation |
学院 | がくいん | institute; academy |
鉱山 | こうざん | mine (ore) |
協定 | きょうてい | arrangement; pact; agreement |
望遠鏡 | ぼうえんきょう | telescope |
東部 | とうぶ | eastern part; the east (of a region) |
伝達 | でんたつ | transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery |
だて | 1. elegance; dandyism; sophistication 2. affectation; showing off; putting on an air | |
浜 | はま | beach; seashore |
消息 | しょうそく | 1. news (from somebody); letter; contact 2. (somebody's) whereabouts; (somebody's) movements |
及び | および | and; as well as |
九州 | きゅうしゅう | Kyushu (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan) |
堀 | ほり | 1. moat; fosse 2. canal; ditch |
迎え | むかえ | meeting; greeting; welcome |
役員 | やくいん | officer; official; executive; staff |
関税 | かんぜい | tariff (import tax); duty; customs |
婿 | むこ | 1. husband; groom 2. (one's) son-in-law |
昆虫 | こんちゅう | insect; bug |
紙幣 | しへい | paper money; note; bill |
反射 | はんしゃ | 1. reflection; reverberation 2. reflex; reflexes |
金庫 | きんこ | 1. safe; strongbox; cashbox; vault; strongroom 2. depository; cash office; treasury; provider of funds |
つまむ | to pinch; to hold; to pick up | |
梅雨 | つゆ | 1. rainy season (in Japan from early June to mid-July) 2. rain during the rainy season |
封 | ふう | seal |
銀座 | ぎんざ | Ginza (shopping district in Tokyo) |
戦車 | せんしゃ | tank (military vehicle) |
落下 | らっか | fall; drop; come down |
分配 | ぶんぱい | division; splitting; sharing; distribution; dissemination; allocation |
輪 | わ | 1. ring; circle; loop 2. hoop 3. wheel 4. circle (e.g. of friends) |
徒歩 | とほ | walking; going on foot |
国人 | こくじん | 1. indigenous person; inhabitant of a country 2. local; native |
東南 | とうなん | south-east |
同日 | どうじつ | the same day |
江戸 | えど | old name of Tokyo |
閲覧 | えつらん | 1. inspection; reading 2. browsing (the WWW, Internet); web browsing |
雄 | おす | male (animal) |
戸籍 | こせき | 1. family register 2. census |
鳴らす | ならす | 1. to ring; to sound; to chime; to beat; to snort (nose); to snap (fingers) 2. to be popular; to be esteemed; to be reputed 3. to state; to insist; to complain |
念 | ねん | 1. sense; idea; thought; feeling 2. desire; concern 3. attention; care |
人員 | じんいん | number of persons; personnel |
鉱物 | こうぶつ | mineral |
南下 | なんか | going south |
重複 | ちょうふく | duplication; repetition; overlapping; redundancy; restoration |
名付ける | なづける | to name; to call; to christen; to term |
北極 | ほっきょく | 1. North Pole 2. the Arctic |
頭脳 | ずのう | 1. head; brains 2. intellect; understanding |
体育館 | たいいくかん | gymnasium |
理学 | りがく | 1. physical science (e.g. chemistry, biology, etc.) 2. physics |
懸念 | けねん | worry; fear; anxiety; concern |
規格 | きかく | standard; norm |
賞品 | しょうひん | prize; trophy |
開拓 | かいたく | 1. reclamation (e.g. wasteland); cultivation; development; opening up (e.g. new market) 2. pioneering; pathfinding; trail-blazing |