Kanji vocabulary index, page 1144 of 1688

Every kanji vocabulary entry in the Kumi dictionary, in stable order. 168,790 entries total.

• 市に虎ありpeople will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market
• ねじりゴム編みtwisted rib stitch (knitting)
• 一目ゴム編みsingle-rib stitches; knit-one-purl-one rib stitch
• 網干垣bamboo fence that resembles a fishing net
• 瓦当decorative cap of an eave-end roof tile
• 軒丸瓦eave-end roof tile (comprising a convex semi-cylindrical tile and a decorative pendant)
• 平瓦concave roof tile
• 軒平瓦eave-end roof tile (comprising a broadly concave tile and near-rectangular decorative cap)
• 鐙瓦eave-end roof tile (comprising a convex semi-cylindrical tile and a decorative pendant)
• 油障子shoji with an oil-treated screen (for increased water resistance)
• 雨障子shoji with an oil-treated screen (for increased water resistance)
• 荒れ屋dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel
• 厨子棚cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.)
• ドーナツ化現象doughnut effect (exodus of residents from city centers to the suburbs); donut effect
• 途子alley; alleyway
• 桷Toringo crabapple (Malus sieboldii)
• 造像creating a statue (esp. a Buddhist statue)
• 造像記record of information about a Buddhist statue (usu. an inconspicuous inscription on the statue)
• 増作good crop; increased yield
• 唐縮緬mousseline de laine; mousseline; light woollen fabric
• 毛斯綸mousseline de laine; light woollen fabric; muslin de laine
• 菜単menu (at a Chinese restaurant)
• 帆檣mast
• 喞筒pump
• 蒸し餅steamed mochi
• 麺麭bread
• 排球volleyball
• 粗描rough sketch
• 木栓wooden plug; cork; tampion
• 軽衫hakama fashioned in the style of the pantaloons worn by the Portuguese
• 土瀝青asphalt
• 単峰型unimodal
• 多峰multimodal
• ゾロ薬generic drug
• 乾麺麭hardtack; cracker; hard biscuit
• 蒸餅steamed mochi; manjū; bread
• 人見slit in the curtains that allows someone on stage to see the audience (in kabuki theatre)
• 拾い目picking up stitches (knitting)
• 条幅type of hanging scroll (made from paper of approx. 130cm x 30cm in size)
• 蔵面rectangular bugaku mask made of thick paper and white silk with facial features drawn on it
• 雑巾摺りskirting board (in a Japanese-style room); baseboard
• 仏所place containing a Buddhist image
• 造仏所government-run workshop of Buddhist sculptors (during the Nara period)
• 禅宗様traditional Zen-style architecture
• 禅室room for zazen meditation; room for Buddhist practices
• 塞がりbeing closed; being blocked up; being occupied
• 載せ込みloading; loading up (onto, into)
• 天一天上days on which Ten'ichijin is in heaven (the 30th to the 45th days of the sexagenary cycle)
• 下達上通conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers; rulers apprehending the views of those they govern
• 方塞がりunlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin)
• 方違えsetting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period)
• 上通conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers
• 方違いsetting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period)
• 方違へ所place where one spends the night to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction
• 市章city symbol; city emblem
• 難義abstruseness; abstruse word
• 多峰性multimodality; multimodal
• 甘ったれるto behave like a spoiled child; to behave like a spoilt child; to fawn on
• 天一太郎day of Ten'ichijin's first ascension to heaven in a year (the 30th day of the first sexagenary cycle of the year)
• 天一Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky
• 耳当earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Han dynasty China)
• 線積分line integral; path integral; contour integral
• 里村village
• 国家地方警察national rural police (1947-1954)
• 国警national rural police (1947-1954)
• 露宿sleeping outdoors
• 露の宿house covered with dew; place covered with dew
• 嘘言lie
• 礼を尽くすto accord someone every courtesy
• 空っ惚けるto play dumb; to feign innocence
• 隠し女secret mistress
• 隠し男secret (male) lover
• 露の宿りhouse covered with dew; place covered with dew
• 官船government-owned ship
• でかい顔するto act self-importantly; to be arrogant; to be high-handed
• 触覚器官tactile organ
• 触覚器tactile organ; touch organ
• 触官tactile organ; touch organ
• 女言葉women's language; word used by women
• 男言葉men's language; male language
• 陵丘hill
• 撃壌to stamp on the ground rhythmically while singing
• 官有地state-owned land; crown land (UK, Australia, etc.)
• 鬼板wooden board used on the ridge-ends of a roof instead of an onigawara tile (sometimes covered in copper sheeting)
• 座観式庭園small garden best enjoyed while sitting at a fixed viewing point
• 回遊式庭園stroll garden with a central pond; large garden best enjoyed by walking around it
• 涼亭pavilion in a garden (used to keep cool); gazebo
• 零本fragmentary remains of a large set of writings; the odd volume; a few pages
• つじつまを合わせるto make one's story to seem coherent; to adjust one's story to fit the situation
• に対しtowards; against; regarding
• に関しrelated to; in relation to
• 指金(finger) ring
• 山形袖章chevron (military rank insignia)
• 山形紋chevron (in heraldry)
• 盈虚waxing and waning (of the moon); phase
• 葉音sound of rustling leaves
• 死絶end (of a family bloodline)
• 離婁の明keen eyesight; the eyesight of Lilou (character with superior eyesight in ancient Chinese folklore)
• 珍渦虫xenoturbellan (either of two species of worm-like basal deuterostomes)
• 妙なるexquisite (e.g. melody); melodious; delicate