Results, meaning of life
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- 着回し【きまわし】着回 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- mixing and matching (clothes, accessories, etc.); wearing of an item of clothing in many different combinations
- プレミアム感【プレミアムかん】
noun:
- sense of enhanced value of a commodity or service (e.g. from quality, scarcity, etc.)
- 最高敬語【さいこうけいご】
noun:
- highest honorifics; honorific language mainly reserved for speaking of or to a member of the Imperial family - Linguistics term
- 餅まき【もちまき】
noun:
- throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 棟上げ式【むねあげしき】
- 餅投げ【もちなげ】
noun:
- throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 餅まき
- ぼんぼん
adverb / ~と adverb:
- fiercely (e.g. of a fire burning) - onomatopoeia
- bong-bong (of clock ringing) - onomatopoeia
- with repeated bangs (e.g. of fire cracker) - onomatopoeia
noun:
- striking clock - abbreviation - onomatopoeia ➜ ぼんぼん時計
- green young man from a well-to-do family - Kansai dialect
- 引き取る☆【ひきとる】引取る☆irr.・引きとる Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to take over; to take back; to collect; to claim
- to take charge of; to take custody of; to look after; to take care of; to adopt
- to retire to a private place; to withdraw; to get out
私は苦情を言ったが、店ではこのセーターを引き取るのを拒んだ。 I complained, but they refused to take this sweater back.
- 非拘束名簿式比例代表制【ひこうそくめいぼしきひれいだいひょうせい】
noun:
- proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast, seats are distributed amongst parties by proportion of vote obtained, and candidates are elected in descending order of number of votes obtained ➜ 拘束名簿式比例代表制
- 鬼★【おに・き】
noun:
- oni; ogre; demon
- spirit of a deceased person ➜ 亡魂
- ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.) [おに]
- it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.) [おに] ➜ 鬼ごっこ【おにごっこ】
- Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) [き] - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】
prefix:
- very; extremely; super- [おに] - slang ➜ 超
来年のことを言えば鬼が笑う。 Speak of the next year, and the devil will laugh.
同じ頃、事務員・有村夏恵は、今月を限りに退職する旨を五鬼上に申し入れた。 At the same time, the clerk Natsue Arimura told Gokijo of his intent to resign after this month.
- ポーン・ぽーん
noun:
- pawn (chess piece) [ポーン]
~と adverb:
- boing; sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring); plonk (e.g. sound of hitting a tennis ball); crack (e.g. sound of ice cracking underfoot) - onomatopoeia
- flipping through the air; tossing - onomatopoeia
- 九蓮宝燈【チューレンポウトウ】
noun:
- nine gates; winning hand composed of 1-1-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-9-9 of the same suit plus one additional tile of the same suit - Mahjong term
- 弓場始め【ゆばはじめ】
noun:
- ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
- first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))
- 門★【もん・かど】
noun / suffix noun:
- gate
- branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master [もん]
- division; phylum [もん] - Biology term
counter:
- counter for cannons [もん]
- 丈★【たけ・たきobs.】長old
noun:
丈の長い黒いコートを着た、あの長身の男だった。 It was the tall man in the long, black coat.
コートを探してます。背が低いので、丈は短めで、なるべくすっきりしたデザインのものを。 I'm looking for a coat. I'm short so the length should be on the short side, and as refined a design as possible.
- 突出し【つきだし】突き出し☆・つき出し
noun / ~の noun:
- protrusion; projection
noun:
- (Japanese) hors d'oeuvre; appetizer; snacks - Food term
- (winning technique of) pushing out of the ring - Sumo term
- 隠れ蓑【かくれみの】隠れみの
noun:
- cover; front (e.g. for illegal activities); magic cloak of invisibility
- Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant) - usually written using kana alone
その倉庫は麻薬密売者の隠れみのだった。 The warehouse was a front for drug traffickers.
- コケ植物【コケしょくぶつ】苔植物【こけしょくぶつ】
noun:
- bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)
- ナヌカザメ属【ナヌカザメぞく】
noun:
- Cephaloscyllium (genus of catshark known as swellsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae capable of inflating their body)
- 璆鏘【きゅうそう】きゅう鏘 Inflection
~たる adjective / ~と adverb:
- echoing beautifully (of the sound produced by striking together jewels or metals); "beautiful (of a melody, etc.)" [figurative] - archaism
- 徒士組【かちぐみ】徒組
noun:
- bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period)
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