Japanese–English dictionary

有袋類

Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums. · yuutairui

有言

(phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.

有象無象

A mob; a disorderly crowd. [from late 14th c.] · uzōmuzō

有資格

(law) Legally qualified or competent. [First attested in the early 18th century.] · yuushikaku

有資格者

One who is eligible. · yuushikakusha

有酸素運動

A form of exercise, designed to enhance one's cardiovascular fitness, normally performed to music. [1968] · yuusansōndō

有限

Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number. · yuugen

有難い

Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful. · arigatai

有頂天

Intense pleasure. · uchōten

服

(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel. · fuku

服を着せる

(also, reflexive, and, figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. [from 15th c.]

服を着る

(also, reflexive, and, figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. [from 15th c.] · fukuokiru

服務

(countable, uncountable) That which one is morally or legally obligated to do. · fukumu

服従

The quality of being obedient. · fukujuu

服従しない

Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.

服従的

Meekly obedient or passive; obsequious.

服装

A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people. · fukusō

服飾

A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people. · fukushoku

服飾品

Ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods sold in a haberdasher's shop. · fukushokuhin

服飾品店

A shop selling such goods.

望ましい

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable. · nozomashii

望み

(countable, figurative) A hope or wish. · nozomi

望む

To want; to wish for earnestly. · nozomu

望楼

An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc. · bōrō

望遠鏡

A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy. · bōenkyō

望郷

The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away. · bōkyō

朝御飯

The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. · asagohan

朝焼け

The change in color of the sky at dawn. · asayake

朝礼

(colloquial) A rallying speech made to instill enthusiasm and boost confidence. · chōrei

朝貢

A payment made by one nation to another in submission. · chōkō

朝食

The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. · chōshoku

朝食を摂る

(intransitive) To eat the morning meal.

朝飯

The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. · asameshi

朝鮮

A geographic region consisting of two countries in East Asia, commonly known as South Korea and North Korea; formerly a single country. · chōsen

朝鮮の

Of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.

朝鮮人

(countable) A native or resident in North Korea or South Korea, or a person of Korean descent. · chōsenjin

朝鮮薊

(countable) A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus. · chōsen'azami

朝鮮語

(uncountable) Official language of the people residing on the Korean Peninsula, and language of approximately 60 million people, in Asia, North America, and elsewhere. · chōsengo

期待

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. · kitai

期待する

(transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.

期間

An amount of time or a particular time interval. · kikan

期限

Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. · kigen

朦朧

Dark, faint or indistinct. · mōrō

朧気

Indistinct, hazy or unclear. · oboroge

木

Abbreviation of Thursday. · ki

木こり

A person whose work is to fell trees. · kikori

木っ端微塵

(informal) Fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items. · koppamijin

木の実

A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties. · kinomi

木の実の殻

The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.

木の皮

(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree. · kinokawa

木の葉

The leaves of plants. · konoha

木乃伊

(countable, by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films. [from 20th c.] · miira

木偶の坊

(colloquial) A stupid person. · dekunobō

木屑

The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material. · kikuzu

木星

(Roman god) The King of the Gods, also called Jove. Equivalent to the Greek Zeus, Jupiter was one of the children of Saturn. As supreme god of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the god of thunder, lightning, and storms, and appropriately called the god of light and sky. · mokusei

木星人

(chiefly, science fiction) An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.

木曜

Abbreviation of Thursday. · mokuyō

木曜日

The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday. · mokuyōbi

木曜日に

(US, Canada, informal in UK) On Thursday.

木材

(North America) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.] · mokuzai

木槌

(music) A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments. · kizuchi

木槿

A flowering plant of the genus Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus syriacus, found in tropical to temperate regions, of some species used for making infusions/tea. · mukuge

木炭

(countable, uncountable) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen. · mokutan

木炭画

(countable) A drawing made with charcoal. · mokutanga

木琴

(percussion instrument) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives. · mokkin

木目

(uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface. · mokume

木立

A small forest with minimal undergrowth. · kodachi

木立ち

A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs. · kodachi

木綿

Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth. · momen

木苺

The plant Rubus idaeus. · kiichigo

木苺色

A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.

木製

Made of wood. · mokusei

木靴

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel. · kigutsu

未亡人

A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower. · mibōjin

未出版

Not published.

未婚

Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other. · mikon

未完

Not complete; not finished. · mikan

未成年

A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. · miseinen

未成年者

(Scots law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority. · miseinensha

未成熟な

(biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

未払い

Not paid for. · miharai

未来

The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. · mirai

未来派

(art) An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions. · miraiha

未検証の

Not (yet) confirmed; not verified.

未熟

Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. · mijuku

未熟さ

(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.

未発達の

(biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

未知

(sometimes, _, postpositive) Not known; unidentified; not well known. · michi

未知数

(algebra) A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found. · michisuu

未確認

Not identified; having an unknown or unnamed identity. · mikakunin

未確認飛行物体

Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft. [from 20th c.] · mikakuninhikōbuttai

未経験

(figurative) Inexperienced. · mikeiken

未読

Not having been read. · midoku

未通女

A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated. · oboko

未遂

An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt. [1580] · misui

末っ子

The youngest child of a family. · suekko

末子

The youngest child of a family. · basshi

末尾子音

(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

末期

Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end. · makki

末梢的

Minor; small in amount · masshōteki

末端

Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost. · mattan

本

A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. · hon

本の背

The narrow, bound edge of a book that encloses the inner edges of the pages, facing outwards when the book is on a shelf and typically bearing the title and the author's and publisher's name.

本の虫

Any of various insects that infest books. · honnomushi

本体論

(uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being. · hontairon

本国

The country in which a person was born and usually raised, regardless of the present country of residence and citizenship. · hongoku

本土

The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula. · hondo

本場

The location where a person was born. · honba

本屋

A shop that sells books. · hon'ya

本当

(modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively. · hontō

本当？

(chiefly, UK) An expression of puzzlement or discovery.

本文

(colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones. · honbun

本来

In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially. · honrai

本棚

A piece of furniture for the storage and display of books. · hondana

本気

Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important. · honki

本源

The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired. · hongen

本物

Of the same origin as claimed; genuine. · honmono

本田

A Japanese automotive and motorcycle manufacturer, named after its founder, Soichiro Honda. · honden

本真

(informal) Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism. · honma

本社

The main administrative centre for a company or organisation. · honsha

本繻子

A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen). · honshusu

本能

A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour. · honnō

本部

The main administrative centre for a company or organisation. · honbu

札

A piece of currency made of paper or polymer. [from 18th c.] · satsu

札入れ

(US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) · satsuire

札幌

The capital and largest city of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. · sapporo

札幌市

The capital and largest city of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.

朱

A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion. · ake

朱子

A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen). · shusu

朱砂

A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.

朱色

A bright red colour tinted with orange. · shuiro

朱鷺

Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans. · juro

机

An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs. · tsukue

机の上

The top surface of a desk.

杆体

A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft. · kantai

杆菌

An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+1⁄2 yards. · kankin

李

A surname from Chinese · sumomo

李朝

(historical) A former Korean kingdom and dynasty in East Asia which ruled the Korean Peninsula from 1392 CE to 1897 CE. · richō

李氏朝鮮

(historical) A former Korean kingdom and dynasty in East Asia which ruled the Korean Peninsula from 1392 CE to 1897 CE. · rishichōsen

杏子

A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit. · anzu

杏子色

A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.

杏子色の

Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

材料

The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object. · zairyō

材木

(North America) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.] · zaimoku

村

A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town. · mura

村人

A person who lives in, or comes from, a village. · murabito

村八分

Temporary exclusion from a community or society. · murahachibu

村民

A person who lives in, or comes from, a village. · sonmin

村落

A small village or a group of houses. · sonraku

杓子定規

Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant. · shakushijōgi