Vocabulary Browser

leader of a group of juvenile delinquents

land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half

collection of words or drawings by several people on a single sheet of paper

Japanese and Chinese literature

reading (someone else's letter, diary, etc.) surreptitiously

increasing the number (of trains, planes, etc.) in operation

catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)

in traveling, a companion; in life, sympathy

hetuvidya (ancient Indian logic for determining right from wrong, truth from falsehood, etc.)

once-powerful nation now in decline

to call for someone's participation

home use

sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (esp. used by homosexual men)

Coralliidae (family of corals)

New Ainu Law (aimed at promoting and protecting Ainu culture; 1997, 2019)

the Gospel according to John (book of the Bible)

marriage between two people who met over the Internet

to draw a line (between)

network addressing authority

euphemisms used by hunters, lumberjacks, etc. when in the wild

parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)

classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

integrated circuit memory

partial generator set

to use (the same thing) for multiple purposes

legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State

carrying a portable shrine with arms stretched out (i.e. without shouldering it)

hard-sectored disk

employer (esp. of a geisha, prostitute, etc.)

paper put between newly completed prints to prevent the ink from smudging