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くよくよkuyokuyoクヨクヨKUYOKUYO Inflection

~する noun:

  • to fret (over); to brood (about); to mope; to worry - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

  • worriedly; (fretting) constantly; (worrying) over this and that; (obsessing) to no end - onomatopoeia
ポツリポツリPOTSURIPOTSURIぽつりぽつりpotsuripotsuri

adverb / ~と adverb:

  • intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
  • in drops (e.g. of rain) - onomatopoeia
はいhaiはたhataobs.はいhai

noun:

  • sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages はい

suffix / counter:

  • counter for cupfuls
  • counter for ships, octopuses and squid はい

アメリカAMERIKAdehahaiyaコーヒーKOOHIIメーカーMEEKAAwo結婚式kekkonshikide花嫁hanayomeniプレゼントPUREZENTOするsuruことkotogaよくありますyokuarimasu In the U.S., it is common to give a present, such as glasses or a coffee-maker, to the bride at weddings.

haika飲むnomutoそのsonootokoha酔ってyotte気持ちよくkimochiyokuなったnatta After a couple of drinks, the guy was feeling no pain.

そうひしょsouhisho

noun:

  • general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea); secretary-general - obscure term 書記長総書記
まくしたてるmakushitateruirr. Inflection

ichidan verb / transitive:

  • to talk on and on; to rattle on; to keep on talking (without pause)
いってんいっかくitten'ikkaku

noun:

そうごうげいじゅつsougougeijutsu

noun:

  • total work of art; complete work of art; Gesamtkunstwerk; artwork that integrates music, poetry, and acting; composite art
へきとうだいいちhekitoudaiichi

noun:

  • at the outset; at the very beginning; in the first place; to begin (start) with; first and foremost - four character idiom
はしぼそきつつきhashibosokitsutsukiハシボソキツツキHASHIBOSOKITSUTSUKI

noun:

  • northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)
いってんいっかくもおろそかにしないitten'ikkakumoorosokanishinai

expression:

  • always dot the i's and cross the t's; don't neglect the slightest detail; be punctilious - proverb
ぎょうじゅうざがgyoujuuzagairr.

noun:

  • daily life; daily routine; while awake or asleep; at all times; day in, day out; constantly; the four cardinal behaviors - walking, standing, sitting and lying [literal] - four character idiom
簿こうそくめいぼしきひれいだいひょうせいkousokumeiboshikihireidaihyousei

noun:

  • proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)
ぴかいちpikaichi

noun:

  • scoring hand in hanafuda with one 20 point flower card and six 1 point flower cards 花札
  • something (or someone) that stands out above the rest

きみkimihitowoおこらせるokoraseru才能sainouだけdakehaぴか一pikaichidayone You're really the best when, and only when, it comes to angering people.

すいげつsuigetsu

noun:

  • water and moon
  • the moon reflected on the water
  • pit of the stomach; solar plexus 水落
てっするtessuru Inflection

~する verb (spec.):

  • to penetrate; to sink in
  • to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively
  • to do throughout (e.g. the night)

大学daigaku出たてdetateno新人shinjinha資料shiryouwo作ったりtsukuttariコピーKOPIIwoとったりtottarito裏方urakata仕事shigotoni徹するtessurunoだろうdarouto勝手にkatteni想像souzouしていたshiteitaのですnodesuga見事にmigotoni裏切られましたuragiraremashita I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.

はっしきhasshikiはちしきhachishiki

noun:

  • eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness) - Buddhism term
ラブカぞくRABUKAzoku

noun:

  • Chlamydoselachus (genus containing only the frilled shark and the Southern African frilled shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae)
きょうどうよくじょうkyoudouyokujou

noun:

  • public bath; communal bath
  • public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee
ふつうようしえんぐみfutsuuyoushiengumi

noun:

  • regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)
あがるagaruirr. Inflection

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

  • to rise; to go up; to come up; to ascend; to be raised Antonym: 下がる
  • to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to go in
  • to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade
  • to get out (of water); to come ashore
  • to increase - also written as 騰る in ref. to price
  • to improve; to make progress
  • to be promoted; to advance
  • to be made (of profit, etc.)
  • to occur (esp. of a favourable result)
  • to be adequate (to cover expenses, etc.) - often as 〜で上がる
  • to be finished; to be done; to be over
  • (of rain) to stop; to lift
  • to stop (working properly); to cut out; to give out; to die
  • to win (in a card game, etc.)
  • to be arrested 挙がる
  • to turn up (of evidence, etc.) 挙がる
  • to be deep fried 揚がる
  • to be spoken loudly
  • to get stage fright
  • to be offered (to the gods, etc.)
  • to go; to visit - humble language
  • to eat; to drink - honorific language
  • to be listed (as a candidate) - esp. 挙がる
  • to serve (in one's master's home)
  • to go north - in Kyoto

suffix / godan ~る verb:

  • to be complete; to finish - after the -masu stem of a verb 出来上がる

3月sangatsu1日からkara鉄道tetsudou運賃unchinga1割あがるagaruto発表happyouされたsareta It has been announced that railway fares will be raised by 10 percent starting on the first of March.

amegaすぐsuguあがるagaruでしょうかdeshouka」「あがらないagaranaito思うomouyo "Will it stop raining soon?" "I'm afraid not."

やがてyagateameha上がるagaruwo思うomou I hope it will clear up soon.

watashiha演説enzetsuwoするsuruto決まってkimatteあがるagaru I never make a speech without being nervous.

いしょうさんたんishousantan

noun:

  • taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom
たいふtaifu

noun:

  • Grand Tutor (second of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
  • Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods) 左大臣
だいかぐらdaikagura

noun:

  • grand kagura performance at Ise
  • type of performance including the lion dance and juggling 雑芸
  • Camellia japonica 'Daikagura' (cultivar of Japanese camellia) - usually written using kana alone 椿
えどみそedomiso

noun:

  • Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji) 味噌
ろくこうよんみんrokukouyonmin

noun:

  • land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

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