Vocabulary Browser

to play an instrument (esp. string instruments)

qieyun (ancient Chinese dictionary arranged by rhyme, displaying characters' meanings and representing their pronunciation with fanqie)

armored recovery vehicle

"winner" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the most)

security force

swiftness of foot

(informal) discussion

operation (of a machine, factory, fishing boat, etc.)

same day shipping

normal school (Japan; 1872-1947)

essential elements of information

Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

sparsely connected neural network

reduced-size edition (esp. of an unabridged compilation of a newspaper)

kana written after a kanji to complete the full (usually kun) reading of the word

there isn't a moment to be wasted

Doctor of Commercial Science

person that annoys or causes trouble

non-life insurance

sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts (Edo period)

going straight to the infirmary in school

mercury sulfide (esp. mercuric sulfide, HgS, but also mercurous sulfide, Hg2S) (sulphide)

audiovisual educational materials

using anything one can lay one's hands on

apple of one's eye

bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla)

belonging to (a group, organization, etc.)

violation (of foreign territory, rights, etc.)

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

clearing one's mind of all worldly thoughts