Results, meaning of life
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- 建て前☆・建前★・立て前・立前・点て前【たてまえ】点前【たてまえ・てまえ】
noun:
- face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts) ［建て前・建前・立て前・立前］ Antonym: 本音
- ceremony for the erection of the framework of a house ［建て前・建前］
- tea ceremony procedures; tea ceremony etiquette ［立て前・立前・点て前・点前］
少数民族や女性の雇用促進政策とはいっても、建前にすぎず、現状はマイノリティーが職に就けるチャンスなどほとんどない。 Although many pay lip service to the idea of affirmative action, in reality, very few minorities get hired.
- 提灯に釣鐘【ちょうちんにつりがね】提灯に釣り鐘
expression:
- paper lanterns and temple bells (esp. as an example of two things looking similar on the outside, but of a completely different nature); (like) chalk and cheese; you can't judge a book by its cover - obscure term ➜ 月と鼈【つきとすっぽん】
- リード☆ Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- lead; leading; taking the lead
noun:
- lead (of a newspaper, etc.); lede
- lead (wire)
- lead (e.g. dog); leash
- reed (of a woodwind, etc.)
- lied; German song, usu. for solo voice & piano - From German "Lied" ➜ リート
noun / ~する noun:
- read; reading
- 並べ立てる【ならべたてる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to place in a row; to line up
- to list; to enumerate
- to talk a lot of nonsense; to tell a lot of lies
- 口切り☆【くちきり】
noun:
- start broaching (a subject); opening remark; start; commencement; beginning
- event at the start of the tenth month of the lunar calendar
- opening a sealed jar or container
- 升☆【ます】枡・桝・斗
noun:
- measuring container; measure
- box (seating at a theatre, etc.)
- square on a grid; cell of a grid - esp. マス
- square bearing block (at the top of a pillar) ［斗］
灯火をますの下にかくすな。 Hide not your light under a bushel.
チェッカー盤の黒と白の枡は交互に並んでいる。 The black and white squares on a checker board are arranged alternately.
- 毫光【ごうこう】
noun:
- light that is said to be emitted from some hair or tuft in Buddha's forehead; ray of light from the tuft of white hair (between the eyebrows) - from 白毫相光 - abbreviation
- 槍玉に挙げる【やりだまにあげる】槍玉にあげる・やり玉に挙げる・やり玉にあげる・槍玉に上げるirr.・やり玉に上げるirr. Inflection
expression / ichidan verb / transitive:
- to make an example of; to make a victim of; to hold up somebody (something) to ridicule; to single out someone for criticism - idiom
- to pierce with a spear
- 田植え祭り【たうえまつり】田植え祭
noun:
- shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
- seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
- 問う★【とう】訪う Inflection
godan ~う verb (spec.) / transitive:
- to ask; to inquire
- to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to pursue (question of responsibility); to charge with
- to care about; to regard as important - used in neg. form ➜ 問わず
- to call into question; to doubt; to question - usu. in passive form
彼にもう一杯いかがかと問う。 I'll ask him whether he wants another drink.
政府が住民に問う一般投票を実施しました。 The government put the question to the people in a referendum.
- みそっかす《味噌っかす・味噌っ滓・味噌っ粕》
noun:
- miso lees; miso strainings; miso dregs
- child who is made light of; child who is left out of games; immature child or person; good-for-nothing
- 女正月【おんなしょうがつ】
noun:
- women's New Year (15th day of the first month of the year); New Year for women who were too busy to celebrate on the 1st (Kyoto-Osaka) ➜ 小正月
- 十日夜【とおかんや・とおかや】
noun:
- Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)
- 天下国家【てんかこっか】
noun:
- the world and the nation; the state of the world; high affairs of state - four character idiom
- 立ち消える【たちぎえる】立消える Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to go out (of a fire, etc.); to die out (before burning to ash) ➜ 立ち消え
- to fall through (of plans, etc.); to fizzle out; to come to nothing ➜ 立ち消え【たちぎえ】
- 味噌をつける【みそをつける】味噌を付ける Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to make a mess of it; to make a hash of it; to fail and lose face; to embarrass oneself
- to spread miso (e.g. on konnyaku) - orig. meaning
- 入れ子【いれこ】入れ籠
noun:
- nest (of boxes); nesting
- concealed information
- adopting a child after one's own has died; child adopted in this manner ［入れ子］
- cavity in an oar (fitted onto a peg as part of a traditional oarlock) ➜ 櫓杭
- 冠★【かんむり・かん・かむり・かんぶり】 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］
先生は生徒の作った花の冠をかぶった。 The teacher put on a crown of flowers which was made by her pupils.
- 取り【とり】取
noun / suffix noun:
- taking; taker; collecting; collector; remover; removal
noun:
- last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day
- active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration)
prefix:
- emphatic or formal prefix - before a verb
小学校の時、よく椅子取りゲームをして遊びました。 We used to play musical chairs in elementary school.
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