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- 客土【きゃくど・かくど】
noun:
- land which one visits; alien land; topsoil brought from another place to mix with the soil
- 口減らし【くちべらし】口べらし Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- giving up children for adoption or apprenticeship, etc. (out of poverty); reducing the number of mouths [literal]
- 皇紀【こうき】
noun:
- Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jinmu's reign in 660 BC ➜ 神武
- 黒子【くろご・くろこ】黒衣
noun:
- stage assistant dressed in black (in kabuki); stagehand; prompter
- behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller
- ただでさえ《唯でさえ》
adverb:
- even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is
- もぐらgikun・むぐらもちgikun・むぐらgikunobs.・もぐらもちgikunobs.・どりゅうobs.《土竜・土龍》モグラ・モグラモチ
noun:
- mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
- 蔵人【くろうど・くらんど・くらびと】藏人
noun:
- keeper of imperial archives
- worker skilled in the brewing of sake or soy sauce
- 揚げ足【あげあし】挙げ足・上げ足・揚足・挙足・上足
noun:
- raised leg; lifting a leg
- upturn (in the market) [上げ足・上足] Antonym: 下げ足
- sitting cross-legged - archaism
- 湯葉【ゆば】湯波・油皮・豆腐皮
noun:
- tofu skin; dried beancurd; delicacy made from the skin of gently boiled soybean milk
- 南北朝時代【なんぼくちょうじだい】
noun:
- period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92)
- 六識【ろくしき】
noun:
- six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning) - Buddhism term
- 家事見習【かじみならい】家事見習い
noun:
- apprenticeship in the running of a household; prospective bride who undertakes an apprenticeship to learn housekeeping - four character idiom
- レビ人【レビじん・レビびと】
noun:
- Levite; member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi (who served a religious function)
ヨハネの証言はこうである。ユダヤ人達が祭司とレビ人をエルサレムからヨハネのもとに遣わして、あなたは誰ですかと尋ねさせた。 Now, this is John's testimony: Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.
- クレオール
noun:
- creole (pidgin which has become a mother tongue) - From French
- Creole (person of mixed ancestry, esp.in the Caribbean)
- 極め出し【きめだし】決め出し
noun:
- arm-barring force out; locking arms around an opponent and pushing him out of the ring - Sumo term
- 前捌き【まえさばき】
noun:
- battling to knock away the hands of one's opponent, in order to achieve an advantageous position - Sumo term
- 新人類【しんじんるい】
noun:
- new breed of humans (used to refer to the younger generation, who have different ideals and sensibilities)
- あり《在り・有り》 Inflection
~の noun / noun:
- existing (at the present moment) ➜ 在る【ある】
adjectival noun / noun:
- alright; acceptable; passable - colloquialism
~る verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:
- 漫喫【まんきつ】
noun:
- manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) - abbreviation ➜ 漫画喫茶
- 笑う門には福来る【わらうかどにはふくきたる】
expression:
- "laugh and grow fat" [figurative]; good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile [literal] - from Chi: 打開笑門福自來 - proverb
- 沐猴にして冠す【もっこうにしてかんす】
expression:
- to only look the part (but otherwise be wholly unsuited for it); a monkey wearing a crown - idiom
- FTTx【エフティーティーエックス】
noun:
- fiber to the x (generic term for any network architecture that uses optical fiber) (fibre); FTTx
- 駅前留学【えきまえりゅうがく】
noun:
- attending foreign language study at a school near the train station (esp. used as a NOVA catchphrase)
- 黥く【めさく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb:
- to have a facial tattoo (esp. one around the eye, one form of punishment in ancient Japan) - was v4k - archaism - obscure term
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