Results, langage used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
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- 結局★【けっきょく】
adverb:
- after all; in the end; ultimately; eventually
noun / ~の noun:
- conclusion; end ➜ 結局のところ
noun:
- end of a game of go, shogi, etc. ➜ 終局
- 線形虫【せんけいちゅう】
noun:
- nematomorph; horsehair worm; gordian worm; hair worm (any of the parasitic nematode-like worms of phylum Nematomorpha)
- 食い込む☆【くいこむ】食込む Inflection
godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:
- to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to dig into (e.g. of fingernails)
- to eat into; to encroach; to make inroads; to penetrate (e.g. a market); to break into (e.g. first place); to erode; to cut into (e.g. time, savings)
- to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks) - vulgar
医者の費用は本当に貯金に食い込む。 Doctors' bills really cut into our savings.
- 中国★【ちゅうごく・ちゅうこく】
noun:
中国やチベットの山に住んでいる白黒の熊はパンダと呼ばれている。 The black and white bears living in the mountains in China and Tibet are called 'pandas'.
シンデレラの類の話は、中国や日本など世界各地で広く見受けられるものだ。 Stories like Cinderella can be found in China, Japan and in every land of the world.
- 上げる☆【あげる】挙げる★・揚げる☆ Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to raise; to elevate ➜ 手を挙げる
- to do up (one's hair) ➜ 髪を上げる
- to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to surface (a submarine, etc.)
- to land (a boat)
- to deep-fry ［揚げる］
- to show someone (into a room)
- to summon (for geishas, etc.) ［揚げる］ - usually written using kana alone
- to send someone (away)
- to enrol (one's child in school); to enroll
- to increase (price, quality, status, etc.); to develop (talent, skill); to improve
- to make (a loud sound); to raise (one's voice) ➜ 声を上げる
- to earn (something desirable)
- to praise
- to give (an example, etc.); to cite - usu. 挙げる
- to summon up (all of one's energy, etc.) - usu. 挙げる
- to arrest ［挙げる］
- to nominate ［挙げる］
- to give ［上げる］ - polite language
- to offer up (incense, a prayer, etc.) to the gods (or Buddha, etc.) ［上げる］
- to bear (a child)
- to conduct (a ceremony, esp. a wedding) - usu. 挙げる
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- (of the tide) to come in
ichidan verb / intransitive verb / transitive:
- to vomit
auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:
調節レバーを上に上げると座面の高さを調節できます。 You can adjust the seat height by moving the adjustment lever up.
たこを上げることが危険なこともある。 Flying a kite can be dangerous.
彼らは給料を上げるように要求した。 They made a claim for higher pay.
彼女は小さな驚きの悲鳴を上げると、浴室に逃げて行った。 She gave a small cry of alarm and fled to the bathroom.
零細小売店などは新年度には利益を上げるでしょう。 Mom-and-pop stores will turn a profit in the new fiscal year.
「冬のソナタ」を例に挙げるまでもなく、いまや時ならぬ韓流ブームである。 You don't need to bring up "A Winter Sonata" to show that South Korean culture is having an unexpected boom in Japan.
- 型にはまる【かたにはまる】型に嵌まる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to fit the mold; to fit the mould; to be standard; to be customary; to be unoriginal; to be stale ➜ 型に嵌める【かたにはめる】
- 行き掛けの駄賃・行きがけの駄賃【いきがけのだちん・ゆきがけのだちん】いきがけの駄賃【いきがけのだちん】ゆきがけの駄賃【ゆきがけのだちん】
expression:
- taking the opportunity to do something; doing something incidentally; doing something while (you) are at it; doing something on the way; while I'm at it - idiom
- 吹き寄せる【ふきよせる】 Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to drift; to blow together ➜ 吹き集める
- to have the wind start to blow; to have the wind spring up
- 土茯苓【どぶくりょう】
noun:
- Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla, used esp. to refer to its dried rhizome, used in Chinese medicine) - obscure term ➜ 山帰来
- 頭文字☆【かしらもじ】
noun:
- first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence)
- initials (of one's name)
頭文字のＮＴＴは何を表していますか。 What do the initials NTT stand for?
「あなたはたしか・・・えーと、えーと・・・も」「頭文字から間違っとるわい！！」 "Let's see, you're ... er, um ... M-" "You're wrong from the first letter!!"
- 三革【さんかく】
noun:
- armor, helmet & shield (armour) - obscure term
- kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) ➜ 陰陽道
- 八専【はっせん】
noun:
- 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】
- 三昧耶【さんまや・さまや・さんまいや】三摩耶【さんまや・さまや】
noun:
- time - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "samaya"
- meeting; coming together - Buddhism term
- equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas) - Buddhism term
- 窮すれば通ず【きゅうすればつうず】
expression:
- necessity is the mother of invention; there is always some way out of a difficulty if you really look for one - proverb
- 霞を食う【かすみをくう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to live on air
- to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人
- 洛陽の紙価を高める【らくようのしかをたかめる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism
- 再セットアップ【さいセットアップ】
noun:
- restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term
Kanji
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