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- 水無月【みなづき・みなつき】
adverbial noun / noun:
- sixth month of the lunar calendar (approx. July) - obsolete term
- June; sixth month of Gregorian calendar
noun:
- triangles of sweet rice jelly topped with adzuki beans (eaten in the sixth month) - Food term
- 頭☆【あたま・かしら】
noun:
- head
- hair (on one's head)
- mind; brains; intellect [あたま]
- leader; chief; boss; captain
- top; tip
- beginning; start
- head; person [あたま]
- top structural component of a kanji [かしら]
- pair [あたま] - colloquialism - Mahjong term ➜ 雀頭【ジャントー】
アリスは頭に花をさしています。 Alice has a flower in her hair.
私、ケンと付き合ってるの。彼って、カッコ良くて優しくて、頭もいいの。おまけに、独身よ! I'm going with Ken. He is cool, gentle and smart. What's more, he is single!
その間ずっと、じいさんの言ったことが、メロンの周りを飛び回る蠅の羽音のように、頭の中でぶんぶんと鳴っていました。 All that time the things granddad had said, like the sound of flies flying round a melon, buzzed in my head.
- 鴨がねぎを背負って来る【かもがねぎをしょってくる】鴨が葱を背負って来る・鴨がねぎを背負ってくる・鴨が葱をしょって来る・鴨がねぎをしょって来る・鴨がねぎをしょってくる Inflection
expression / ~くる verb (spec.):
- along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money; a duck comes carrying a Welsh onion on its back [literal] ➜ 鴨鍋
- 先憂後楽【せんゆうこうらく】
noun:
- hardship now, pleasure later; seeking pleasure only after dealing with difficulties; seeking pleasure only after the happiness of the people is assured (a precept to be observed by a ruler) - four character idiom
- 揚げ巻【あげまき】揚巻・総角
noun:
- old-fashioned boys' hairstyle
- Meiji period women's hairstyle
- type of dance in kabuki [揚げ巻・揚巻]
- knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color) [揚げ巻・揚巻] - Sumo term
- constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam - abbreviation ➜ 揚巻貝
- 尖った・尖がったirr.【とがった・とんがった】尖んがったirr.【とんがった】
noun or verb acting prenominally:
きつつきは、長く尖ったくちばしで、木の幹をつついて、中にいる虫を食べます。 Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.
- 手に入る☆【てにはいる】手にはいる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
- 柳の下にいつも泥鰌はいない【やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはいない】柳の下に何時も泥鰌は居ない
expression:
- a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal]; good luck does not always repeat itself - proverb
- さばを読む【さばをよむ】鯖を読む Inflection
expression / godan ~む verb:
- to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age - idiom
- 逆立ちしても【さかだちしても】
expression:
- no matter how hard one might try; no matter what one does; even if one stood on one's head [literal] ➜ 逆立ち
- 突く☆【つく】衝く・撞く・捺く Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to prick; to stab
- to poke; to prod; to push; to thrust; to nudge; to hit; to strike
- to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with; to press against (the floor, etc.)
- to attack
- to brave (the rain, etc.)
針で親指を突いてしまった。 I pricked my thumb with a needle.
羽子板で突く羽の玉は「むくろじ」という大木の種です。 The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
- 問題点★【もんだいてん】
noun:
- the problem (at issue); the point at issue; problematic issue; problem
我々の計画の問題点は費用というよりもそれにかかる時間だ。 The problem with our plan is not so much the cost as it is the time required.
- 法華八講【ほっけはっこう】
noun:
- Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)
- テクシーで行く【テクシーでいく】 Inflection
expression / godan -いく/-ゆく verb (spec.):
- to foot it; to hoof it; to go on foot - slang ➜ テクシー
- 即す【そくす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:
- to conform to; to agree with; to be adapted to; to be based on ➜ 即する
- 呪い殺す【のろいころす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to curse someone to death; to put a deadly curse on someone
- 浮かべる☆【うかべる】浮べる・泛かべる・泛べるirr. Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to float; to set afloat; to launch
- to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.)
- to recall; to call to mind; to imagine; to think of
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