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- 地★【ち】
noun / suffix noun:
雨降って地固まる。 Adversity strengthens the foundations.
どっちが最終的な安息の地となるんだろう。 Which one will be our final resting place?
これらの国々はヨーロッパ文明発祥の地である。 European civilization had its birth in these lands.
彼女のドレスは青い地に白の水玉模様がある。 Her dress is blue with white polka dots.
- 櫛の歯が欠けたよう【くしのはがかけたよう】
expression:
- missing important things here and there; full of gaps; as if the teeth of a comb were missing [literal]
- みつすい《蜜吸い・蜜吸》ミツスイ
noun:
- honeyeater (any of a number of long-tongued Australasian songbirds, esp. the cardinal honeyeater, Myzomela cardinalis)
- 言葉★【ことば・けとばobs.】詞・辞【ことば】
noun:
「言葉の一面は、伝達しようとする意志である」と彼は言う。 "One aspect of language is an intent to communicate," he says.
こういった言葉使いは彼の人格に合わない。 Such language doesn't harmonize with his character.
- 三本締め【さんぼんじめ】
noun:
- hand-clapping performed to celebrate the conclusion or completion of something (3-3-3-1 rhythm, done three times) ➜ 一本締め【いっぽんじめ】
- 発【ハツ】發
noun:
- green dragon tile - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 緑發
- winning hand with a pung (or kong) of green dragon tiles - Mahjong term
- 打ち出し☆【うちだし】打出し・打ちだし
noun:
- embossing a pattern; repoussé; hammering
- drum signaling the end of a performance ➜ 打ち出し太鼓
- serve (e.g. in tennis); drive (in golf)
- printout; printing out ➜ 打ち出す【うちだす】
その便せんには校章が打ち出しにされている。 The note is embossed with the school emblem.
- 代替わり☆【だいがわり】代替り・代変わり・代変り・代替irr.
noun:
- taking over (e.g. store or family's headship)
- subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
- 他心通【たしんつう】
noun:
- awareness of the minds of others (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通
- 楽変化天【らくへんげてん】
noun:
- heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term
- 化楽天【けらくてん】
noun:
- heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天
- 硝煙弾雨【しょうえんだんう】
noun:
- smoke of powder and hail of bullets; (in) the thick of the raging battle - four character idiom
- 下達上通【かたつじょうつう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers; rulers apprehending the views of those they govern - archaism
- 遠い☆【とおい】 Inflection
adjective:
- far; distant; far away; a long way off; in the distance
- distant (past); remote (in time); remote; far-removed (in time)
- distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone)
- far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.); not similar; way off
- hard (of hearing) - as 耳が遠い
- nearsighted - as 目が遠い
彼は彼女の遠い親戚だ。 He is a distant relation of hers.
明日…明日という日が遠い遠い先のことのように感じられた。 Tomorrow ... tomorrow seemed such a long, long way off.
- 弦☆【つる】絃・鉉
noun:
- bowstring
- string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.)
- bail (arched pot handle) - esp. 鉉
- diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu - also written as 梁 ➜ 枡
- 四柱推命【しちゅうすいめい】
noun:
- Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth - four character idiom
- メスを入れる【メスをいれる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to put the scalpel to; to perform an operation on
- to take drastic measures to get to the bottom of something; to make a searching inquiry; to put something under the microscope - idiom
- 掻い掘り【かいぼり】搔い掘り Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- draining a pond, lake, or ditch (esp. to remove fish, purify water, etc.)
- cleaning a well
- 箸洗い【はしあらい】
noun:
- simple and light soup taken between courses in a kaiseki meal, or during a formal tea ceremony - Food term ➜ 懐石
- 罰酒【ばっしゅ】
noun:
- alcohol which must be drunk as a punishment (e.g. for losing a contest or arriving late) ➜ 罰杯
- 本末転倒☆【ほんまつてんとう】本末顛倒 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards - four character idiom
あなたの言っていることは本末転倒だと思わないかい? Don't you think you're putting the cart before the horse?
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