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- 御裾分け【おすそわけ】お裾分け Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- sharing with others what has been given to you; sharing a portion of the profit with others
- 裾分け【すそわけ】すそ分け
noun:
- sharing with others what has been given to you; sharing a portion of the profit with others ➜ 御裾分け
- 浮石【うきいし】浮き石
noun:
- pumice stone
- loose rock; loose stone
- floating group (in the game of go); group without a base
- 書き損じ【かきそんじ】書損じ
noun:
- slip of the pen; mistake in writing
- something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard)
- 眼鏡越し【めがねごし】メガネ越し【メガネごし】眼鏡ごし・めがね越し【めがねごし】
noun:
- (looking) over the top of one's glasses
- (looking) through a pair of glasses
- 行程☆【こうてい】
noun:
- journey; course; distance; march; flight; drive; leg (of a journey, relay race, etc.)
- itinerary
- stroke (of a piston); throw (of a switch)
我々は旅行の最後の行程を歩かなければならなかった。 We had to walk the last leg of the journey.
- 引き直す【ひきなおす】引直す・引きなおす Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to redraw (a line)
- to catch (a cold) again
- to consult (a reference) again
- 袂【たもと】
noun:
- sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve ➜ 袂を分かつ
- vicinity (esp. of a bridge)
- foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
橋のたもとに着いてから橋を渡れ。 Don't cross your bridges before you come to them.
- 塞がり【ふさがり・ふたがりobs.】
noun:
- ケサランパサラン・ケセランパセラン・ケセランパサラン・テンサラバサラ
noun:
- flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness
- animal from popular folklore with a white fluffy down made from dandelions and a rabbit's tail resembling a fluffy hairball
- 五摂家【ごせっけ】
noun:
- the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関
- 一応★【いちおう】一往
adverb / ~の noun:
- more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion; pretty much; roughly; so far as it goes
adverb:
- tentatively; for the time being
- just in case
- once
ええ、先方から一応返事はありました。 Yeah, there was some sort of reply from them.
一応聞きますが、なにをするつもりですか。 I'll ask just in case. What are you trying to do?
- 脱亜論【だつあろん】
noun:
- Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron
- 会社人間【かいしゃにんげん】
noun:
- company person; company man; company woman; corporate soldier - four character idiom
- 対面【トイメン】
noun:
- opposite player - Mahjong term - From Chinese
- opposite side; (person) directly opposite - colloquialism
- 口奇麗【くちぎれい】 Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- speaking elegantly; speaking clearly; not coveting food; speaking like an innocent person
- 授かる☆【さずかる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to receive (e.g. a title)
- to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent)
- to be blessed (e.g. with a child)
- to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)
- 煙たがる【けむたがる・けぶたがる】烟たがる Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to be sensitive to smoke
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to dislike the company of (someone); to consider (someone) a burden or nuisance
- お家騒動【おいえそうどう】御家騒動
noun:
- family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period
- 忍び返し【しのびがえし】忍返し
noun:
- bamboo wall-top spikes (or wood, iron); spikes placed at the top of a wall to repel thieves
- おもたせ《お持たせ・御持たせ》
noun:
- gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 御持たせ物
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