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かんむりkanmuriかんkanかむりkamuriかんぶりkanburi Inflection

noun:

  • traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers 衣冠束帯
  • crown; diadem; coronet
  • top kanji radical かんむり
  • first verse of a haikai, etc. かむり 俳諧

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

  • best; peerless; first かん

noun:

  • name; title; named sponsorship of a program, event, team, etc. かんむり

先生senseiha生徒seitono作ったtsukuttahananokanmuriwoかぶったkabutta The teacher put on a crown of flowers which was made by her pupils.

李下rikanikanmuriwo正さtadasazu Avoiding the appearance of evil.

ここkokonikanmurigaあるaru There's a crown here.

へたなかんがえやすむににたりhetanakangaeyasumuninitari

expression:

  • It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb 下手の考え休むに似たり
へたのかんがえやすむににたりhetanokangaeyasumuninitari

expression:

  • It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb 下手な考え休むに似たり
あまくだりamakudari Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
  • command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; imposition
  • descent from heaven - orig. meaning

日本nipponno官僚kanryoutachiha国家kokkaga破綻hatanするsuruまでmade天下りamakudariwo続けtsuzukete税金zeikinwoむさぼるmusaboru国賊kokuzokuni過ぎsugiないnai Japanese bureaucrats are nothing but traitors to the country who covet our tax money and will continue the practice of amakudari until the country is bankrupt.

ぎゅういんばしょくgyuuinbashoku Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse - four character idiom
つらなるtsuranaru Inflection

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

  • to extend; to stretch out; to stand in a row
  • to attend; to participate in
  • to enrol; to enroll; to join
  • to have a connection; to be related; to be linked
ほんたいhontaiほんだいhondaiobs.

noun / ~の noun:

  • substance; real form
  • main part; main unit; body (of a machine)

noun:

  • this machine; this appliance

noun / ~の noun:

  • object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)
  • noumenon

noun:

なんであれnandeare物事monogotono本体hontaiwo捕らえるtoraerukotoga肝心kanjinda No matter what the problem is, it's essential to get at the heart of the matter.

こけるkokeruold Inflection

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

  • to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to collapse
  • to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop
ふしぎなくらいfushiginakurai

expression:

  • curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
ダブルリーチDABURURIICHI

noun:

  • declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared - Mahjong term 立直【リーチ】
みつめるmitsumeruold Inflection

ichidan verb / transitive:

  • to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on

アルフォンスARUFUONSUgasorawo見上げたmiagetaままmama速くhayaku流れるnagarerukumowo見つめていたmitsumeteita Alphonse looked at the racing clouds, his eyes turned to the sky.

みなづきminazukiみなつきminatsuki

adverbial noun / noun:

  • sixth month of the lunar calendar (approx. July) - obsolete term
  • June; sixth month of Gregorian calendar

noun:

  • triangles of sweet rice jelly topped with adzuki beans (eaten in the sixth month) - Food term
ほりゅうおんhoryuuon

noun:

  • hold music; music on hold; hold tone
おやくそくoyakusoku Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date - honorific language - humble language 約束

noun / ~の noun:

  • something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)
あげまきagemaki

noun:

  • old-fashioned boys' hairstyle
  • Meiji period women's hairstyle
  • type of dance in kabuki 揚げ巻・揚巻
  • knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color) 揚げ巻・揚巻 - Sumo term
  • constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam - abbreviation 揚巻貝
かたるkataru Inflection

godan ~る verb / transitive:

  • to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of
  • to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title); to falsify (e.g. a seal)
いちばんしょうぶichibanshoubu

noun:

  • contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom
いっかいしょうぶikkaishoubu

noun:

  • contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom
いっぱつしょうぶippatsushoubu

noun:

  • contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom
irr.とがったtogattaとんがったtongattairr.とんがったtongatta

noun or verb acting prenominally:

きつつきkitsutsukiha長くnagaku尖ったtogattaくちばしkuchibashidekinomikiwoつついてtsutsuitenakaniいるirumushiwo食べますtabemasu Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.

てにはいるtenihairu Inflection

expression / godan ~る verb:

  • to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
さばをよむsabawoyomu Inflection

expression / godan ~む verb:

  • to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age - idiom
さかだちしてもsakadachishitemo

expression:

  • no matter how hard one might try; no matter what one does; even if one stood on one's head [literal] 逆立ち
いちぶいちりんichibuichirin

noun:

  • (not even) a bit of; (not even) a hint of; (not) an iota of - four character idiom
もんだいてんmondaiten

noun:

  • the problem (at issue); the point at issue; problematic issue; problem

我々warewareno計画keikakuno問題点mondaitenha費用hiyouというよりtoiuyorimoそれsoreniかかるkakaru時間jikanda The problem with our plan is not so much the cost as it is the time required.

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