noun:

• multiple people holding the same item with their chopsticks
• passing something from chopstick to chopstick

noun / ~の noun:

• public and private; official and personal; government and people

noun:

• the masses; the lower classes; the common people

noun:

• the whole nation; all the people in the land - four character idiom

noun:

• retirement home; old people's home; senior citizens' home

noun:

• popular music; common people's music (as opposed to court music) Antonym: 雅楽

noun:

• ruling the times; holding sway over the minds of the people - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• group suicide; mass suicide; arranged suicide of two or more people

noun / ~する noun:

• group suicide; mass suicide; arranged suicide of two or more people - obscure term ➜ 集団自殺

noun / ~の noun:

• young man; young woman; young people; youth; youngsters

noun / ~する noun:

• complete change in public sentiment; leading the thought of the people to an entirely different channel - four character idiom

noun:

• message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.) - slang

expression / noun:

• the pot calling the kettle black; people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - idiom

noun:

• the people; the public; the world

noun:

• Korean person (esp. North Korean); Korean people - sensitive

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• take the world by storm; to hold sway over the minds of the people

noun:

• two people riding in a palanquin together (esp. a man and a woman) - archaism

noun:

• vengeful spirit (spawned from a person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; wraith
• mankind; souls; people ［せいれい］

noun:

• another person; other people; others ➜ 人【ひと】
• unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood) ［たにん］
• outsider; stranger ［たにん］

noun:

• turnout (of people)
• start (e.g. race, campaign, term of office)
• constant forward movement; initial charge; dash - Sumo term

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• noisily (e.g. from many people talking); creating a commotion - onomatopoeia
• rustling (leaves) - onomatopoeia
• feeling a chill; getting the chills - onomatopoeia

noun:

• bad poem; my humble poem - polite language
• stooped over (e.g. old people); bowed
• stalling; having a relapse

noun:

• temporary manifestation by a buddha (in order to save people); manifested form (often a Shinto deity) - Buddhism term ➜ 本地

noun:

• center for collecting charitable contributions (money, goods, and-or services) and distributing them to people in need - four character idiom

noun:

• fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits) - four character idiom