Vocabulary Browser

year-end bonus

cloudy sky that appears when the migrating birds that stayed for winter and autumn in Japan leave to go north

sliced abalone served in cold water

moving average (line)

to sacrifice something small in order to save something great

upper air

hypothesis (formed by comparison with other similar objects)

party position

various forms of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetry, sarugaku acrobatics performance)

to plant oneself

sacrifice something small in order to save something great

ambulacral zone (on echinoderms)

various buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities, etc.

footprint of the Buddha carved in stone

withered trees and cold ash

direct kanji input (as opposed to kana-kanji conversion)

soy flour made from parched green soybeans

playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century

to compare (e.g. notes)

small child (esp. a servant child in the Heian-period imperial palace)

oiling

WorldSkills Competition

US military

coconsciousness

children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards

release from suspension (of a newspaper, magazine, etc.; Meiji period)

stepping outside to cool down

police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site

to spare oneself

embedded in the ceiling (of a fan, air conditioning unit, etc.)