Vocabulary Browser

smiling

Anthurium lily

man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryō system)

immune response gene

aluminum oxide (Al2O3)

news flash

potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7)

spermatocyte

to be thoroughly attracted by

black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)

criminal conspiracy (participation in the planning of a crime, but not its execution)

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)

silicon carbide (SiC)

mercy killing (euthanasia performed to end someone's suffering, but without consent)

kanji "going man" radical (radical 60)

Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is

being exceptionally stingy

Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort

bibliography

Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)

standard tables of food composition

large deer

Japan-specific seasonal markers signaling changes in the season (e.g. the start of the rainy season, typhoon days, changing of the seasons) used in addition to the Chinese 24 solar terms

kanji radical 79 at right

front company (for an organized crime operation)

textbook approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

word root (smallest portion of a larger word that holds meaning)

collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat in the New Year)

auxiliary shrine (dedicated to a deity close-related to that of a main shrine)

abductor