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Japanese Vocabulary
Unknown kanji and words
| Kanji | Reading | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 仕組み | しくみ | structure; construction; arrangement; contrivance; mechanism; workings |
| 基本 | きほん | basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation |
| 身体 | しんたい | body; physical system |
| 重心 | じゅうしん | center of gravity (center) |
| 移動 | いどう | movement; transfer; migration; removal; travel |
| 情報 | じょうほう | information; news; report; intelligence |
| 含める | ふくめる | to include (in a group or scope) to instruct; to make one understand |
| 細かく | こまかく | minutely; finely |
| 自然 | しぜん | nature (noun) natural; spontaneous; automatic (な-adjective) |
| 斯うした（こうした） | こうした | such |
| 左右 | さゆう | left and right; right and left (asserting) control; influence; domination |
| 均一 | きんいつ | uniformity; equality |
| 服 | ふく | clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; costume; suit; outfit |
| 生命感 | せいめいかん | feeling of vitality; sense of being alive |
| 完全 | かんぜん | perfect; complete |
| シンメトリー | しんめとりー | symmetry |
| 機械的 | きかいてき | mechanical |
| 要注意 | ようちゅうい | need for caution; need for care; requiring special attention |
| 俯き加減 （うつむき加減） | うつむきかげん | facing slightly downward |
| 優しい | やさしい | tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable |
| 雰囲気 | ふんいき | atmosphere; mood; ambience; ambiance; aura; feel a certain air; presence; special aura; something (about someone) |
| 表現 | ひょうげん | expression; representation; description |
| 人体 | じんたい | human body |
| 骨格 | こっかく | skeleton; skeletal structure; build; frame; physique framework |
| 軸 | じく | axis; shaft; axle center; centre; focal point; key point stalk; stem |
| 体重 | たいじゅう | (body) weight |
| 軸足 | じくあし | pivot foot emphasis; priority; focus |
| 感情 | かんじょう | emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment |
| 顔 | かお | face; visage look; expression; countenance |
| 頭 | あたま | head mind; brains; intellect |
| 当然 | とうぜん | natural; right; proper; just; reasonable; appropriate; deserved |
| 悲しい | かなしい | sad; miserable; unhappy; sorrowful |
| 怒る | おこる | to get angry; to get mad; to lose one's temper to scold; to tell (someone) off |
| 反る | そる | to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend |
| 曲げる | まげる | to bend; to crook; to bow; to curve; to curl to lean; to tilt; to incline; to slant |
| 力を入れる | ちからをいれる | to put effort into; to strain; to put strength into; to put forth effort |
| 提示 | ていじ | presentation (of a passport, ID, etc.); showing; production (e.g. of documents) |
| 予告 | よこく | (advance) notice; preliminary announcement; warning trailer (for a film, TV show, etc.) |
| 最低 | さいてい | least; lowest; minimum worst awful; horrible; nasty; disgusting |
| 項目 | こうもく | item; heading; category; clause |
| 頭に入れる | あたまにいれる | to keep in mind; to memorize |
| 高が （たかが） | たかが | only; merely; just; at most; no more than |
| 難しい | むずかしい | difficult; hard; troublesome; complicated; serious (disease, problem, etc.) fussy; particular; fastidious; hard to please; displeased |
| 技術 | ぎじゅつ | technology; engineering technique; skill art; craft |
| 必要 | ひつよう | necessary; needed; essential; indispensable necessity; need; requirement |
| 前記 | ぜんき | aforesaid; above-mentioned; said; above |
| 前述 | ぜんじゅつ | aforementioned; above-mentioned |
| 幅 | はば | width; breadth gap; difference (e.g. in price); range (e.g. of voice) |
| 接点 | せってん | point of tangency; point of contact point of contact (between); connection; point of agreement; common ground |
| 地面 | じめん | ground; earth's surface land; lot; plot |
| 認識 | にんしき | recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition; cognizance; cognisance |
| 背中 | せなか | back (of the body) |
| 接地面 | せっちめん | tread (tire, etc.); ground contact area |
| 即ち （すなわち） | すなわち | that is (to say); namely; i.e. precisely; exactly; just; nothing but; neither more nor less (and) then |
| 体勢 | たいせい | posture; position; stance |
| 前後 | ぜんご | front and rear; front and back; before and behind; back and forth before and after |
| 意識 | いしき | consciousness becoming aware (of); awareness; sense |
| 肩 | かた | shoulder |
| 抜ける | ぬける | to come out; to fall out; to be omitted; to be missing; to escape; to come loose to fade to leave (e.g. a meeting) to go through; to pass through; to give way; to collapse |
| 安定感 | あんていかん | sense of stability |
| 与える | あたえる | to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to grant; to confer; to present; to award to provide; to afford; to offer; to supply to assign to cause |
| 悩む | なやむ | to be worried; to be troubled |
| 落ち込む | おちこむ | to feel down; to feel sad; to be depressed; to be in low spirits to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition to fall into (e.g. a hole) |
| 様子 | ようす | state (of affairs); situation; circumstances appearance; look(s); air; manner; behaviour; demeanor sign; indication |
| 表情 | ひょうじょう | facial expression; countenance look; appearance; expression (vocal, etc.) |
| 虚ろ （うつろ） | うつろ | cavity; hollow; void hollow (voice, smile, etc.); blank (eyes, look, etc.); vacant (expression, stare, etc.); empty (words, heart, etc.) |
| 物思い | ものおもい | reverie; meditation; anxiety; thought; pensiveness |
| 見つめる | みつめる | to stare (at); to gaze (at); to look hard (at); to watch intently; to fix one's eyes (on) |
| 耽る（ふける） | ふける | to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in |
| 関数 | かんすう | function (mathematics and computing) |
| 集計 | しゅうけい | totalization; aggregation; tally (e.g. of votes); adding up; summing up |
| 事例 | じれい | example; precedent; case |
| 衛生 | えいせい | hygiene; sanitation; health |
| 惚気る （のろける） | のろける | to go on about (one's love affairs); to speak proudly of (one's spouse, girlfriend, etc.); to speak fondly of |
| 腰 | こし | lower back; waist; hips; lumbar region |
| 胸 | むね | chest; breast heart heart; mind; feelings |
| 把握する | はあくする | grasp (of the situation, meaning, etc.); understanding; control; hold; grip |
| 表面 | ひょうめん | surface; face outside; exterior |
| 凸凹 | でこぼこ | unevenness; roughness; ruggedness; bumpiness inequality; imbalance; unevenness; difference |
| 説得力 | せっとくりょく | persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency |
| 特に | とくに | particularly; especially; in particular; expressly |
| 陰 | かげ | shade; shadow behind (something); other side; back the background; behind the scenes; behind someone's back |
| 線 | せん | line; stripe; stria |
| 場合 | ばあい | case; occasion; situation; circumstances |
| 主体的 | しゅたいてき | independent; responsible; active; proactive |
| 立体 | りったい | solid body; three-dimensional object |
| 形状 | けいじょう | shape; form |
| 凹凸（おうとつ） | おうとつ | unevenness; bumpiness; roughness; ruggedness imbalance; inequality; unevenness; disparity |
| 密着 | みっちゃく | close adhesion; sticking firmly (to); being glued (to) relating closely (to); having relevance (to) |
| 柄 | がら | pattern; design body build; figure; physique essential qualities; character; nature |
| 想像 | そうぞう | imagination; supposition; guess |
| 毛細血管 | もうさいけっかん | capillary; capillary vessel |
| 血管 | けっかん | blood vessel; vein |
| 当時 | とうじ | at that time; in those days |
| 関係 | かんけい | relation; relationship; connection participation; involvement; concern influence; effect |
| 伴う | ともなう | to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with; to be involved in |
| 股関節 | こかんせつ | hip joint; coxa |
| 下側 | したがわ | underside |
| 立体感 | りったいかん | feeling of solidity; three-dimensionality; drawing highlights |
| 傾く | かたむく | to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to heel over; to be disposed to; to trend toward; to be prone to to go down (sun, moon); to sink to decline; to wane; to ebb; to fall away to tend (towards); to be inclined (to); to come around to (opinion, etc.) |
| 除湿器 | じょしつき | dehumidifier; dehumidification machine |
| 猫っ毛 | ねこっけ | fine, soft hair |
| 事務的 | じむてき | administrative; businesslike; practical impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like |
| 様子を見る | ようすをみる | to wait and see; to see how things go; to survey the situation |
| 鎖 | くさり | chain; chains |
| 鎖骨 | さこつ | collarbone; clavicle |
| 結ぶ | むすぶ | to tie; to bind; to link to bear (fruit) to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to conclude to connect (two distant places) |
| 立体的 | りったいてき | three-dimensional |
| 首 | くび | neck dismissal (from a job); firing; sacking |
| 襟ぐり（えりぐり） | えりぐり | neckline (of dress, etc.) |
| 後ろ側 | うしろがわ | back (side); back end; rear |
| 位置 | いち | place; position; location position; standing; status; situation |
| 機能 | きのう | function; facility; faculty; feature |
| 然うした（そうした） | そうした | such |
| 役割 | やくわり | part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties |
| 天秤（天びん） | てんびん | (balance) scales |
| 支える | ささえる | to support; to prop; to sustain; to underlay; to hold up; to defend to hold at bay; to stem; to check |
| 部位 | ぶい | part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat) |
| 首筋 | くびきん | nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck |
| 美しい | うつくしい | beautiful; pretty; lovely; sweet; pure (heart, friendship, etc.) |
| 念頭 | ねんとう | (on one's) mind; heed |
| 後頭部 | こうとうぶ | back of head |
| 上半身 | じょうはんしん | upper half of the body; upper body |
| 下半身 | かはんしん | lower half of the body; nether parts |
| 実は | じつは | as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly |
| 頭部 | とうぶ | head |
| 突っ張る | つっぱる | to cramp up; to tighten; to stiffen to be insistent; to persist (in one's opinion); to stick to one's guns to act tough; to bluff; to be defiant; to be unruly to prop up (e.g. with a post); to support |
| 状態 | じょうたい | state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances |
| 手首 | てくび | wrist |
| 無理 | むり | unreasonable; unnatural; unjustifiable impossible forcible; forced; compulsory |
| 腕 | うで | arm |
| 斜め | ななめ | slanting; tilted; sloping; diagonal; oblique distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood); amiss; awry |
| 側面 | そくめん | side; flank; profile; sidelight; lateral aspect; dimension |
| 手の甲 | てのこう | back of the hand |
| 回転 | かいてん | rotation; revolution; turn; spin turnover (of goods, funds, etc.); circulation; flow (of customers) |
| 平たく | ひらたく | in plain words; in plain terms; put simply |
| 正面 | しょうめん | front; frontage; facade; main |
| 学習 | がくしゅう | learning; study |
| 際 | さい | occasion; time; circumstances; (in) case (of); when |
| 細部 | さいぶ | details; particulars |
| 足首 | あしくび | ankle |
| お尻 | おしり | bottom; buttocks |
| 寝かせる | ねかせる | to put to bed; to let sleep to lay (something) down; to put on its side to let (money, goods, etc.) lie idle; to set aside unused; to let (stock) lie unsold to (let) ferment; to (let) age; to let (dough) rise; to lay down (wine) |
| 単体 | たんたい | simple substance (e.g. chemical) something standing alone; separate item; solo item |
| 筋張る | すじばる | to become sinewy (e.g. of muscles); to become stringy; to become stiff to become stiff (of attitude or conversation); to become formal; to become ceremonial; to become awkward (of a situation) |
| 理解 | りかい | understanding; comprehension; appreciation sympathy |
| 各部分 | かくぶぶん | each part, every part |
| 具合 | ぐあい | condition; state health; state (of health) way; manner circumstance; luck face; dignity; decency; propriety |
| 親指 | おやゆび | thumb big toe |
| 独立 | どくりつ | independence; self-reliance; supporting oneself; being on one's own independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom separation; isolation |
| 仏教 | ぶっきょう | Buddhism |
| 回数 | かいすう | number of times; frequency; count |
| 節約 | せつやく | economising; saving |
| 喉仏 | のどぼとけ | Adam's apple; laryngeal prominence |
| 池 | いけ | pond |
| 茶碗 | ちゃわん | rice bowl; tea cup; teacup |
| 総合 | そうごう | synthesis; combination; integration; putting together general; combined; composite; mixed; integrated; comprehensive |
| 錆 | さび | rust |
| 陰湿 | いんしつ | malicious; spiteful; vicious; wicked; devious; underhanded; sly |
| 陰険 | いんけん | rafty; tricky; sly; wily; treacherous; underhand sinister (look) |
| 個々 | ここ | individual; one by one; separate; each |
| 表す | あらわす | to represent; to signify; to stand for to reveal; to show; to display to express to make widely known |
| 関節 | かんせつ | joint |
| 下がる | さがる | to come down; to go down; to fall; to drop; to sink; to get lower to hang; to dangle to move back; to step back; to withdraw; to retire to deteriorate; to fall off; to be downgraded |
| 徐々に | じょじょに | gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees |
| 小指 | こゆび | little finger; pinky little toe |
| 生け簀 | いけす | fish pen; holding pond; fish tank; live well; live-box |
| 大使館 | たいしかん | embassy |
| 夜景 | やけい | night view; night skyline; nightscape |
| 鮑 | あわび | abalone; ear shell |
| 結構 | けっこう | splendid; nice; wonderful; delightful; lovely; excellent; fine sufficient; satisfactory; enough; fine; all right; OK not needing (any more of something); (already) having enough; fine (as in "I'm fine"); no, thank you rather; quite; fairly; pretty |
| 肉厚 | にくあつ | thick; meaty; fleshy |
| 付け根 | つけね | root; joint; base; crotch |
| 一直線 | いっちょくせん | straight line |
| 人差し指 | ひとさしゆび | index finger; forefinger second toe |
| 隠れる | かくれる | to hide; to conceal oneself; to take cover to disappear (behind); to be hidden (by); to be covered; to go out of sight to be unknown (e.g. of a talent); to be undiscovered; to be hidden (e.g. of a meaning) |
| 断食 | だんじき | fasting; fast |
| 由来 | ゆらい | origin; source; history; derivation originally; from the start; by nature |
| 裏 | うら | opposite side; bottom; other side; side hidden from view; undersurface; reverse side rear; back; behind lining; inside in the shadows; behind the scenes; offstage; behind (someone's) back |
| 足の裏 | あしのうら | sole of foot |
| 足の甲 | あしのこう | top of the foot; instep; dorsum of the foot; dorsum pedis |
| 踵（かかと） | かかと | heel (of foot, shoe, stocking, etc.) |
| 接する | せっする | to touch; to come in contact with; to border on; to adjoin; to be adjacent; to be close to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to serve; to take care of; to look after; to act towards; to deal with; to see to receive (news); to get; to hear |
| 箇所 | かしょ | place; point; part; spot; area; passage; portion counter for places, parts, passages, etc. |
| 運び | はこび | progress; pace; carriage; step; stage |
| ベレー帽 | ベレーぼう | beret |
| 正装する | せいそうする | wearing full dress; formal dress; uniform |
| スネ | 脛 | shin; shank; lower leg |
| 区別 | くべつ | distinction; differentiation; discrimination; difference |
| 捉える | とらえる | to catch; to capture; to seize; to arrest; to grab; to catch hold of to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to capture (e.g. features) to captivate; to move (one's heart) |
| 踝（くるぶし） | くるぶし | ankle; malleolus; ankle bone |
| アキレス腱 | アキレスけん | Achilles tendon; calcaneal tendon Achilles' heel; vulnerable point |
| 脹脛（ふくらはぎ） | ふくらはぎ | calf (anatomy) |
| 治安 | ちあん | public order; public peace; public security; law and order |
| 倒れる | たおれる | to fall (over, down); to collapse; to take a fall; to topple to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to cave in; to crumble; to give away to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to break down (e.g. from overwork) to die |
| 前方 | ぜんぽう | ahead; forward; (in) front |
| 予め（あらかじめ） | あらかじめ | beforehand; in advance; ahead of time; previously |
| 周り | まわり | circumference; girth surroundings; neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances |
| 及び | および | and; as well as |
| 重要 | じゅうよう | important; essential; significant; major; key; principal |
| 絵柄 | えがら | pattern; design |
| 衣服 | いふく | clothes |
| 得る | える | to get; to earn; to acquire; to procure; to gain; to secure; to attain; to obtain; to win to understand; to comprehend to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill) to be able to ..., can ... |
| 知識 | ちしき | knowledge; information |
| 観察 | かんさつ | observation; survey; watching |
| 数段 | すうだん | several steps much (better, higher, etc.); several cuts (above) |
| 抜粋 | ばっすい | extract; excerpt; selection |
| 基礎的 | きそてき | fundamental; basic |
| 身 | み | one's body; one's person oneself; one's appearance one's place (in society, etc.); one's position main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.); wood (as opposed to bark); blade (as opposed to its handle); container (as opposed to its lid) |
| 試す | ためす | to try (out); to have a try (at); to test; to put to the test |
| 鮮明 | せんめい | vivid; clear; distinct |
| 記憶 | きおく | memory; recollection; remembrance |
| 疑問 | ぎもん | doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness |
| 鏡 | かがみ | mirror; looking-glass |
| 皮膚 | ひふ | skin |
| 限界 | げんかい | limit; bound |
| 脇 | わき | armpit; under one's arm; side; flank beside; close to; near; by aside; to the side; away; out of the way off-track; off-topic |
| 矢印 | やじるし | arrow (symbol) |
| つけ根 | つけね | root; joint; base; crotch |
| 喉仏（のど仏） | のどぼとけ | Adam's apple; laryngeal prominence |
| 鼻 | はな | nose |
| 短い | みじかい | short brief |
| 窪む | くぼむ | to cave in; to become depressed; to sink |
| 平面的 | へいめんてき | flat superficial; surface-level; one-dimensional |
| 距離 | きょり | distance; range; interval difference (e.g. in opinion); gap; distance |
| 前面 | ぜんめん | front part; frontage; facade initial pledge (e.g. election); opening slogan |
| に対し／に対して | にたいし／に対して | towards; against; regarding; in contrast with |
| 拾う | ひろう | to pick up; to gather to find (and pick up; something someone has dropped) to select; to choose; to pick out |
| 波打つ | なみうつ | to dash against (of waves); to billow; to roll to wave (e.g. in the wind); to heave; to pound (of a heart); to undulate |
| 決め手 | きめて | decider; person who decides decisive factor; clincher; key; trump card; winning move; decisive blow; conclusive evidence |
| 卵型 | たまごがた | oval shape; egg shape |
| 頭頂 | とうちょう | top of the head; crown of the head; vertex; (the) parietal |
| 末広がり | すえひろがり | spreading out like an open fan becoming prosperous folding fan; ceremonial folding fan |
| 鼻翼 | びよく | wings of the nose (i.e. nostril) |
| 小鼻 | こばな | nostrils; wings of the nose |
| 頬骨（ほお骨） | ほおぼね／きょうこつ／ほほぼね | cheekbone; zygomatic bone; malar bone |
| 正中 | せいちゅう | middle; centre; center impartiality |
| 一言 | ひとこと／いちげん／いちごん | single word; a few words; brief comment |
| 寄る | よる | to approach; to draw near; to come near; to be close to to gather (in one place); to come together; to meet to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to make a short visit to grow old; to grow high (number, etc.) to lean against |
| 絵柄 | えがら | pattern; design |
| 外見 | がいけん／そとみ | outward appearance; looks |
| 包む | つつむ | to wrap up; to pack; to bundle; to do up to cover; to envelop; to shroud; to engulf to conceal (a feeling); to hide to give (money in an envelope; as a wedding gift, funeral offering, etc.) |
| 形成 | けいせい | formation; molding; making (up); taking form; giving form to repair (e.g. with plastic surgery); replacement; -plasty |
| 眼球 | がんきゅう | eyeball |
| 瞳 | ひとみ | pupil (of the eye) one's eyes |
| 認識 | にんしき | recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition; cognizance; cognisance |
| 瞼（まぶた） | まぶた | eyelid |
| 半球 | はんきゅう | hemisphere |
| 球体 | きゅうたい | sphere; globe; orb |
| 踏まえる | ふまえる | to be based on; to take into account; to build upon; to have origin in to have one's feet firmly planted on; to plant oneself on |
| 先端 | せんたん | pointed end; tip; point; cusp (of a leaf, crescent moon, etc.); apex (of a curve) forefront; vanguard; spearhead; leading edge |
| 見上げる | みあげる | to look up at; to raise one's eyes to look up to; to admire; to respect |
| 細長い | ほそながい | long and narrow |
| 頬／頬っぺ／頬っぺた | ほお／ほっぺ／ほっぺた | cheek (of the face) |
| 疎か（おろそか） | おろそか | negligent; neglectful; careless; remiss |
| 鼻筋 | はなすじ | bridge of the nose |
| 額 | ひたい | forehead; brow |
| 真横 | まよこ | (right at the) side; just beside |
| 輪郭 | りんかく | contour; outline; silhouette summary; outline; sketch looks; features |
| 斜め顔 | ななめがお | (drawing of a) face in three-quarter view |
| 儲かる | もうかる | to be profitable; to yield a profit |
| 認知症 | にんちしょう | dementia |
| 合流 | ごうりゅう | confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining joining (of people, groups, parties, etc.); union; linking up; merging (e.g. of traffic); meeting (up) |
| 人工的 | じんこうてき | artificial; unnatural |
| 郊外 | こうがい | suburb; residential area on the outskirt of a city; commuter belt |
| 祭る | まつる | to deify; to enshrine to pray; to worship |
| 樹齢 | じゅれい | age of a tree |
| ついてないな | ついてないな | I'm out of luck. It's not my day. I've been unlucky lately. |
| 省略 | しょうりゃく | omission; leaving out abbreviation; abridgment; abridgement; shortening (e.g. of a name) |
| 目頭 | めがしら | inner canthus; inner corner of the eye |
| 感覚 | かんかく | sense; sensation; feeling; intuition |
| 面長 | おもなが | oval-faced; long-faced |
| 寄り | より | having a tendency towards; being close to |
| 小顔 | こがお | (attractively) small face (esp. a woman's) |
| 前ページ | ぜんページ | previous page |
| 異なる | ことなる | to differ; to be different; to disagree; to vary; to diverge |
| 髪の毛 | かみのけ | hair (on the head); (a) hair |
| 可愛い | かわいい | cute; adorable; charming; lovely; pretty dear; precious; darling; pet innocent; childlike; childish; lovable dainty; little; tiny |
| 横顔 | よこがお | profile; face in profile; face seen from the side (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life) |
| 奥行き | おくゆき | depth; length |
| 見立てる | みたてる | to (see and) choose; to select to diagnose (as) to judge; to estimate to liken (to); to compare (to); to imagine (something) as; to treat as |
| いざ | いざ | now; come (now); well |
| 造形 | ぞうけい | molding; moulding; shaping; forming; modelling (i.e. plastic arts); modeling |
| きちんと | きちんと | properly; accurately; exactly; precisely; regularly neatly; tidily; orderly |
| 身近 | みぢか | near oneself; close to one; familiar |
| 敢えて | あえて | purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); deliberately; intentionally not necessarily; not particularly; not especially definitely not |
| 簡易的 | かんいてき | simple; easy; quick |
| 見立てる | みたてる | to (see and) choose; to select to diagnose (as) to judge; to estimate to liken (to); to compare (to); to imagine (something) as; to treat as |
| 振り向く（ふり向く） | ふりむく | to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder |
| 書き表す／描き表す | かきあらわす | to write out; to express; to describe to publish |
| 保つ | たもつ | to keep; to preserve; to hold; to retain; to maintain; to sustain to last; to endure; to keep well (food); to wear well; to be durable |
| 大半 | たいはん | majority; more than half; most (of) mostly; largely; mainly; predominately; nearly |
| 生存 | せいぞん | existence; being; life; survival |
| 地上 | ちじょう | above ground; on the ground; earth's surface this world; this earth |
| 非常 | ひじょう | emergency extreme; great; extraordinary; remarkable; unusual; terrible; severe |
| 一見 | いちげん | look; glimpse; glance apparently; seemingly; at first glance; on the face of it |
| 凭せる（もたせる） | もたせる | to lean (something) against; to set against; to prop up against |
| たくし上げる | たくしあげる | to roll up or pull up (sleeves, skirt, etc.) |
| 湾曲 | わんきょく | curve; bend; crook |
| 違和感 | いわかん | uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort |
| 浮く | うく | to float to become merry; to be cheerful to become loose; to become unsteady to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you); to feel out of place to be frivolous; to be uncertain |
| 簡単 | かんたん | simple; easy; uncomplicated brief; quick; light |
| 前かがみ | まえかがみ | slouch |
| 構え（かまえ） | かまえ | structure; construction; appearance posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; stance readiness; determination; preparedness |
| 見極め | みきわめ | ascertainment |
| 引き | ひき | pull; patronage; influence tug |
| 時点 | じてん | point in time; occasion |
| 演出 | えんしゅつ | direction (of a play, film, etc.); production organization (of an event); arrangement; staging (for effect); orchestration |
| 柔軟 | じゅうなん | flexible; lithe; soft; pliable |
| 直立 | ちょくりつ | standing upright; standing straight; standing erect rising perpendicularly; rising straight up; towering high |
| 避ける | よける | to avoid (physical contact with) to avoid (situation); to evade (question, subject); to shirk (one's responsibilities) to ward off; to avert to put aside; to move out of the way |
| 成す（なす） | なす | to form; to make; to constitute to build up (e.g. a fortune); to create; to establish to accomplish; to achieve; to win (fame); to gain to change (into); to convert to do; to commit; to carry out; to bring about to do intentionally |
| 魅力的 | みりょくてき | charming; fascinating; attractive |
| 手先 | てさき | fingers; fingertips underling; stooge; tool; pawn; minion |
| 平行 | へいこう | parallelism; running parallel (to, with) running concurrently; occurring at the same time; keeping pace with not reaching an agreement (e.g. of a debate) |
| 炊く | たく | to cook (grains, e.g. rice) to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe to get angry; to snap |
| 水切り | みずきり | straining; draining drainer; strainer; colander |
| 笊（ざる） | ざる | draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; strainer; sieve something full of holes |
| 反対側 | 反対側 | opposite side; opposition |
| しなやか | しなやか | supple; flexible; elastic graceful; elegant; refined |
| 真下 | ました | right under; directly below; right beneath |
| 納税 | のうぜい | payment of taxes |
| 収める 納める | おさめる | to put (into); to put away (in); to put back (in); to keep (in); to store (in); to restore (to its place) to include (in an anthology, catalogue, etc.); to contain; to publish (in); to capture (on film) to pay (fees, taxes, etc.); to deliver; to supply |
| 利益 | りえき | profit; gains benefit; advantage; good; interests (e.g. of society) |
| 税理士 | ぜいりし | tax advisor; tax counselor; licensed tax accountant |
| カバーする | かばーする | to cover (a loss); to offset; to compensate for (e.g. a weakness); to make up for; to cover for (someone) covering (a song); cover; cover version coverage |
| 後方 | こうほう | rear; back; behind |
| 重たい | おもたい | heavy; weighty heavy (feeling, atmosphere, etc.); serious; gloomy; depressing |
| 一口／ひと口 | ひとくち | mouthful; morsel; bite gulp; sip; draft; draught one word; in short one share; one contribution |
| 活溌 | かっぱつ | lively; active; vigorous; animated; brisk |
| 内気 | うちき | shy; bashful; timid; reserved |
| 清楚 | せいそ | neat and clean; tidy; trim |
| 性格 | せいかく | character (of a person); personality; disposition; nature characteristics; nature (of a thing, event, etc.) |
| 描き起こす | かきおこす | to begin drawing; to begin painting |
| 弱気 | よわき | timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted |
| 服装 | ふくそう | attire; dress; clothes; clothing; costume; garb |
| 要素 | ようそ | component; factor; item (e.g. in list) |
| 取り入れる | とりいれる | to take in; to gather in to adopt (e.g. an idea); to accept (e.g. advice); to introduce (e.g. technology); to borrow (e.g. a word) to harvest; to reap; to gather in |
| 掴む（つかむ） | つかむ | to seize; to catch; to grasp; to grip; to grab; to clutch; to hold; to catch hold of; to lay one's hands on to obtain; to acquire; to get; to win; to capture to understand; to grasp; to comprehend |
| くねる | くねる | to bend loosely back and forth; to wriggle; to be crooked |
| 甘える | あまえる | to behave like a spoiled child; to fawn on to take advantage of; to presume upon (e.g. another's benevolence); to depend on |
| 超える／越える | こえる | to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to pass over (out of); to go beyond; to go past to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than) |
| 成り立つ | なりたつ | to consist of; to be made up of; to be composed of to be concluded (e.g. of an agreement); to hold true (e.g. of a theory); to be valid to be viable (of a business, lifestyle, etc.); to carry on; to keep going |
| 身軽い | みがるい | nimble; light |
| 体型／体形 | たいけい | figure; body shape; build; physique; form somatotype; biotype; habitus; (type of) physique |
| 振り鐘 | ふりかね | handbell |
| 幼い | おさない | very young; little childish; immature |
| 内股 | うちまた | inner thigh; inside of the thigh (walking) pigeon-toed; having one's toes turned inward |
| 単独 | たんどく | sole; single; solo independence; singleness; singularity |
| 適切 | てきせつ | appropriate; suitable; fitting; apt; proper; right; pertinent; relevant |
| 数多く | かずおおく | in great numbers |
| 感覚的 | かんかくてき | sensible; sensuous; intuitive |
| 前進 | ぜんしん | advance; moving forward; progress |
| 突き出す | つきだす | to push out; to project; to stick out to hand over (e.g. to the police) |
| 軌道線 | きどうせん | railway line; tramway line trajectory; path (something travels) |
| 動線 | どうせん | line of flow (of people, objects, etc.) |
| 踏み出す | ふみだす | to step forward; to step forth; to advance to start; to embark on; to set forth on; to take steps toward |
| 防ぐ | ふせぐ | to defend against; to protect against to prevent; to avert; to avoid |
| 再び | ふたたび | again; once more; a second time |
| 繰り返す | くりかえす | to repeat; to do over again |
| 着地 | ちゃくち | landing |
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