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ひかえるhikaeru Inflection

ichidan verb / transitive:

  • to be temperate in; to refrain; to abstain; to hold back; to restrain oneself from excessive ...
  • to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

  • to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for
  • to be soon; to be in the offing

ichidan verb / transitive:

  • to be in a close relationship (e.g. as a backer, etc.)

あなたanataha喫煙kitsuenwoひかえるhikaeruべきbekiですdesu You should refrain from smoking.

bokuhaジムJIMUni飲みnomiすぎsugiha控えるhikaeruようyouni言っita I told Jim to restrain himself from drinking too much.

オーナーシェフOONAASHEFUオーナー・シェフOONAA/SHEFU

noun:

  • chef-owner; chef/owner; chef and owner - From English "owner chef"
さしひくsashihiku Inflection

godan ~く verb / transitive:

  • to deduct; to take away; to dock
  • to make allowances for something; to bear something in mind

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

  • to ebb and flow

10からkarawo差し引くsashihikutoですdesu Subtract two from ten and you have eight.

むげんじごくmugenjigokuむけんじごくmukenjigoku

noun:

  • the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering - four character idiom
タミフるTAMIFUru Inflection

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

  • to panic (from the flu panics of late 2000's and early 2010's); to act frantically; to act bizarrely - slang タミフル
あいのこぶねainokobune

noun:

  • semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period
やまごしyamagoshi Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • wind blowing down, coming over a mountain

noun:

  • immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
  • winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term
はいきぶつしょりしせつhaikibutsushorishisetsu

noun:

  • waste treatment facility; WTF; waste disposal and treatment facility
ちらちらchirachiraチラチラCHIRACHIRAチラッチラッCHIRATCHIRA Inflection

~と adverb / ~する noun:

  • falling lightly (e.g. snow, petals, confetti); fluttering - onomatopoeia
  • flickering; twinkling; glimmering; sparkling; dazzling - onomatopoeia
  • appearing and disappearing; catching glimpses - onomatopoeia
  • glancing (repeatedly) - onomatopoeia ちらっと
  • (hear, see) from time to time; intermittently - onomatopoeia
えぞezoえみしemishi

noun:

  • historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Emishi
  • Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) えぞ 蝦夷地
ぜったいあんていたすうzettaianteitasuu

noun:

  • overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties)
うちぬくuchinukuぶちぬくbuchinukuうちぬくuchinukuぶちぬくbuchinukuうちぬくuchinuku Inflection

godan ~く verb / transitive:

  • to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out
  • to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls
はちめんろっぴhachimenroppi

noun:

  • competent in all fields; jack of all trades; very active in many fields; versatile; all-round; 8 faces and 6 arms [literal] - four character idiom
かいしkaishiふところがみfutokorogami

noun:

  • paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony)
  • paper used for writing tanka
しちこうさんみんshichikousanmin

noun:

  • land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom
ねのひのあそびnenohinoasobi

expression / noun:

  • collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)
あかまたくろまたakamatakuromataアカマタクロマタAKAMATAKUROMATA

noun:

  • red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)
いしんのさんけつishinnosanketsu

noun:

  • three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration
まるめこむmarumekomu Inflection

godan ~む verb / transitive:

  • to coax; to cajole; to wheedle; to win over; to seduce 丸める
  • to roll up and put into (something); to bundle up
あいぎんaigin Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • favourite poem or song; favorite poem or song
  • lover of poetry and song
じこさくjikosaku

noun:

  • landed and tenant farming; landed farming with some tenant farming on the side
だいがくいんだいがくdaigakuindaigaku

noun:

  • graduate university; university concentrating on graduate-level education and advanced research; research university
ダブルリーチDABURURIICHI

noun:

  • declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared - Mahjong term 立直【リーチ】
ごこうごみんgokougomin

noun:

  • land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half - archaism - four character idiom
たいほうtaihouたいほtaiho

noun:

  • Grand Protector (lowest of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
  • Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods) 右大臣

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