Kanji vocabulary index, page 1166 of 1688

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

• 掛かり負けexpenses being higher than profits
• 板畳tatami mat with a wooden plank for a core (used in tokonoma, etc.)
• 物憂げlanguorous; weary; listless
• 結構人nice person; good-natured person
• 結構者nice person; good-natured person
• 白塗りsomething painted white; white makeup (for an actor)
• 来賓講演者guest speaker
• 来賓演説者guest speaker
• 招待演説者guest speaker
• 共同浴場public bath; communal bath
• 共同湯public bath; communal bath
• 若桐young paulownia tree
• 菊畑chrysanthemum field
• 打ち明かすto be frank; to speak one's mind; to open one's heart
• 槍が降ってもwhatever misfortune happens; even if spears fall out of the sky
• 身を誤るto err; to take the wrong path; to go astray
• 勝継winning game after game
• 町駕籠palanquin
• 竹束bamboo bundle
• 女弁士female narrator in a silent movie theatre
• 口中清涼剤mouth freshener; oral deodorant
• はしけ船lighter; barge; baggage boat
• 瀬取り船small boat used for unloading goods from a large boat anchored nearby
• 茶船small boat used for transport on rivers (Edo period); barge; boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat
• 上荷船small boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat (Edo period); lighter
• ばね指trigger finger; flexor tendinitis
• 年季が入るto become experienced (after many years of practice)
• 木の葉天狗weak tengu
• 木っ葉天狗weak tengu; small tengu
• 沸かし湯hot water (esp. cold mineral spring water heated up at the right temperature for bathing)
• 二十の扉twenty questions (game)
• 負け嫌いhating to lose; always wanting to win; unyielding
• 左褄を取るto become a geisha; to work as a geisha
• 分裂症schizophrenia
• 脇明けrobe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides, and no wrapped fabric along the bottom
• 振戦せん妄delirium tremens
• 振戦tremor (muscular); trembling; shaking
• 技術協会technology association; technology institute
• 技協technology association; technology institute
• もの臭いtroublesome; bothersome; burdensome
• 郵便事業postal service; post service
• 大人可愛いadult-cute; grown-up but girlish; fashion style of adult women characterized by makeup and clothing that subtly emphasizes cuteness
• 煙がるto be sensitive to smoke; to be uncomfortable because of smoke
• 初会meeting for the first time; first meeting
• 忠loyalty; devotion; fidelity
• 悌respect for one's elders
• 八徳the eight virtues
• 轡屋brothel
• 亡八customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues
• 形臨copying calligraphy from a model
• 意臨copying calligraphy without sticking to the model (calligraphy); copying freely
• 背臨copying from a model without looking at it (calligraphy)
• 絵暦traditional Japanese calendar with pictures; traditional Japanese calendar expressed with pictures for use by illiterates
• 適期proper time (e.g. for harvesting rice); appropriate time; right time
• 天体暦astronomical ephemeris; ephemeris
• 私地private land
• 田荘farmland
• 庸tax paid to avoid forced labor (ritsuryō period); tax in kind
• 雑徭forced labour (labor) imposed upon commoners (ritsuryō period)
• 計帳register established for tax purposes (ritsuryō period)
• 長岡京Nagaoka-kyō (capital of Japan 784-794)
• 水蒸気透過率moisture vapor transmission rate; moisture vapour transmission rate; MVTR
• 応天門main southern gate of the Heian Palace's reception compound
• 進奏reporting to the emperor
• 視告朔ceremony where the Emperor would inspect the records of attendance and absence of officials
• 朝堂院reception compound; part of the palace where important ceremonies were held
• 平城宮Heijō Palace (imperial residence in Heijō-kyō)
• 応天門の変Ōtenmon incident (conspiracy in 866 CE that centered on the destruction of the main gate of the Imperial Palace)
• 唐風Chinese style
• 摂関政治regency government
• 能動性activity; motility
• 其れはそうとしてanyway; by the way; incidentally
• 菌体bacterial cell
• 任国one's country of assignment (e.g. for an ambassador)
• 宣旨written imperial order (late Heian period)
• 斎食morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.)
• 御斎会imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)
• 除目ceremony for appointing officials other than ministers (from the Heian period)
• 南部暦picture calendar
• 垢膩dirt and grease; filth; grime
• あたり鉢(earthenware) mortar (for grinding)
• 死に変わるto die and be reborn as something else
• 土になるto die; to become earth
• 土となるto die; to become earth
• 立場を取るto take a position (e.g. on an issue); to adopt a stance
• 勝win; victory
• 結い方hair style; way of dressing hair
• 発馬機starting gate; starting stalls
• 旅宿travellers' inn; stage inn
• 工期building time; construction period
• 木工品woodwork
• 直衣everyday robes worn by males of the imperial family, nobility, etc. (from the Heian period onward)
• 揚代fee paid for the services of a geisha or prostitute
• 天神髷tenjin hairstyle
• 妙諦amazing truth; cardinal principle; key (to understanding)
• 金光明経Golden Light Sutra
• 金光明最勝王経Golden Light Sutra (as translated into Chinese by the monk I Ching)
• 具名formal full name
• 十七殿seventeen main pavilions of the imperial palace
• 後涼殿ladies' pavilion (of Heian Palace)