Vocabulary Browser

absorbability

private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route

vicarious experience

high quality tatami covering made with soft rush from Hiroshima Prefecture

middle period

twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities

private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route

all varieties of flowers

Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)

medium build

latter days of the law (one of the three ages of Buddhism)

number of words a person speaks

yellowtail amberjack (species of fish, Seriola lalandi)

battle of words

to add (one thing to another)

all but dead

break (from work, etc.)

job transfer

to fly about

six codes (constitution, civil code, criminal code, commercial code, code of civil procedure, code of criminal procedure)

Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)

crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road)

retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation

perpetual youth and longevity

selling separately

any red algae in the family Gelidiaceae (esp. Gelidium crinale)

closing (for the day; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.)

running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt)

acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)

biographical writings