Japanese–English dictionary

浣腸

To administer an enema. · kanchō

浦

A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary. · ura

浦塩

A city and seaport in the Russian Far East, on the Sea of Japan, near North Korea; the administrative centre of Primorsky Krai.

浦塩斯徳

A city and seaport in the Russian Far East, on the Sea of Japan, near North Korea; the administrative centre of Primorsky Krai.

浪人

A masterless samurai (who often becomes a mercenary to make ends meet). · rōnin

浪漫的

Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate. [from 18th c.] · romanteki

浪費

To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate. · rōhi

浪費家

Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully. · rōhika

浮かぶ

(intransitive) To be capable of floating. · ukabu

浮かべる

(transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density. · ukaberu

浮かれ騒ぐ

(intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. [from 1580s]

浮き

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. · uki

浮き輪

(swimming) One of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim. · ukiwa

浮く

(intransitive) To be capable of floating. · uku

浮巣鳥

Any of several waterbirds in the family Podicipedidae of the order Podicipediformes. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.

浮彫的効果

The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.

浮揚物

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

浮標

(nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes · fuhyō

浮気

A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship. · uwaki

浮気者

(broadly) One who commits adultery. · uwakimono

浮腫

(medicine) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity. · mukumi

浮腫み

(medicine) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity. · mukumi

浮遊

(transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft. · fuyuu

浮遊生物

(uncountable) Organisms, especially small and microscopic ones, that drift in water. · fuyuuseibutsu

浴びせる

(transitive) To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. · abiseru

浴びる

(intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. · abiru

浴場

A building or area where bathing occurs. · yokujō

浴室

A building or area where bathing occurs. · yokushitsu

浴槽

A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. · yokusō

浴衣

A robe usually made of terrycloth intended to be worn when one is still damp from bathing or when there is no immediate need to dress fully. · yukata

海

Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea. · umi

海上輸送する

(transitive) To send by water-borne transport.

海事

Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen. · kaiji

海兵

A member of a marine corps. · kaihei

海兵隊者

A member of a marine corps.

海員

In particular, a member of the crew of a (civilian or military) vessel, as opposed to a captain, admiral, etc.; a mariner; a common seaman. · kaiin

海嘯

A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave. · kaishō

海外

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. [from 1350–1470] · kaigai

海外居住者

One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.

海外居住者の

Living outside of one's own country.

海岸

A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water. · kaigan

海岸線

The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast. (The term coastline is generally used to describe the approximate boundaries at relatively large spatial scales.) · kaigansen

海峡

A narrow body of water between two land masses. · kaikyō

海底

The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean. · kaitei

海戦ゲーム

A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

海抜

The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level. · kaibatsu

海星

Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach. · hitode

海月

An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. · kurage

海水

The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. · kaisui

海洋

(countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents. · kaiyō

海浜

The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean. · kaihin

海港

(literal, dated) A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea. · kaikō

海狗

A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.

海狸

(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere. · kairi

海猫

A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae. · umineko

海獺

An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae. · rakko

海王星

(astronomy) The eighth planet in our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by ♆. · kaiōsei

海産物

Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life. · kaisanbutsu

海産食品

Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.

海盤車

Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach. · hitode

海綿

(countable) Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica. · kaimen

海老

(Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp. · ebi

海苔

The seaweed, chopped and formed into sheets, used in the preparation of sushi. · nori

海藻

Any of numerous marine algae, such as a kelp. · kaisō

海蛇座

(constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a serpent. It lies just south of the zodiac and contains the star Alphard. · umihebiza

海豚

A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of the infraorder Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans. · iruka

海象

A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus. · seiuchi

海豹

Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae characterized by lacking external ear flaps; true seals. · azarashi

海賊

(crime, nautical) Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it. · kaizoku

海賊版

An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband. · kaizokuban

海賊船

An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels. · kaizokusen

海軍

(countable) A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel. · kaigun

海軍大将

(military) The appointed commander of a navy, regardless of formal title. [1440]

海軍大尉

(military) The lowest junior commissioned officer rank(s) in many military forces, often Army and Marines.

海辺

(chiefly, UK) The area by and around the sea; including the beach, promenade or cliffs · umibe

海馬

(neuroanatomy, anatomy) A part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe, consisting mainly of grey matter. It is a component of the limbic system and plays a role in memory and emotion. · kaiba

海鮮

Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life. · kaisen

海鳥糞

Dung from a sea bird or from a bat. · kaichōfun

浸す

To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic) , to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep. · hitasu

浸る

(intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. · hitaru

浸水した

Soaked with water.

浸透

(chemistry) The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane. · shintō

浸透させる

(transitive) To cause (a liquid) to pass through something by filtration.

涅槃

(Buddhism) Complete cessation of dukkha; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience. · nehan

消えそうな

Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

消える

(dated) Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched. · kieru

消しゴム

(North America, Philippines) An object used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil. · keshigomu

消し炭色

A very dark gray colour.

消す

(transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. [from 1600s] · kesu

消化

(transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. · shōka

消化不良

(pathology) A condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly. · shōkafuryō

消化剤

A substance that aids digestion. · shōkazai

消化薬

A substance that aids digestion.

消印

A marking made by a postal service on a delivery, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, mostly serving to cancel a postage stamp. · keshiin

消去

(transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible. · shōkyo

消失

The action of disappearing or vanishing. · shōshitsu

消毒

To sterilize by the use of cleaning agent. · shōdoku

消毒剤

A substance that kills germs or viruses. · shōdokuzai

消滅

(preceded by the) The collapse or end of something. · shōmetsu

消滅危機のある

in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct)

消然

Sad and dispirited.

消耗

(human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through injury, incapacitation, retirement, resignation, or death. · shōmō

消耗する

(transitive) To consume, exhaust (some resource).

消費

(transitive) To use up. · shōhi

消費税

(taxation) Initialism of value added tax. · shōhizei

消費者

(economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual. · shōhisha

消防士

(firefighting) A person who has been trained to put out fires. · shōbōshi

消防隊

A unit of firefighters and their equipment. · shōbōtai

消防隊員

(firefighting) A person who has been trained to put out fires.

消音器

(US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces. · shōonki

涎

Saliva trickling from the mouth. · yodare

涎が出る

(intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

涎掛け

An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating. · yodarekake

涙

A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation. · namida

涙ぐむ

Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry. · namidagumu

涙の雫

a single tear (clear, salty liquid secreted by the eye).

涙滴型

The shape of a drop of liquid about to fall. (Note that once detached from a surface, a drop changes shape to become spherical). · ruitekigata

涜職

Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on. · tokushoku

液体

Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma. · ekitai

液化

The process of being, or state of having been, made liquid (from either a solid or a gas). · ekika

涼しい

Of a mildly low temperature. · suzushii

涼亭

A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn. · ryōtei

淋病

A sexually transmitted infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts. · rinbyō

淑やか

Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion. · shitoyaka

淑女

A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority. · shukujo

淡い

(of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness · awai

淡紅色

A color between pink and cream. · tankōshoku

淡黄褐色

A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.

淫らな

Full of lust; driven by lust.

淫乱

Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled. · inran

淫欲

Inordinate indulgence in sexual activity. · in'yoku

淫蕩

Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful. · intō

淬ぐ, 焠ぐ

To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

深い

Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure. · fukai

深セン

A major subprovincial city of Guangdong, in southeastern China. · shinsen

深まる

(intransitive) To become deeper · fukamaru

深める

(transitive) To make deep or deeper · fukameru

深刻

(of a topic) Serious, somber. · shinkoku

深圳

A major subprovincial city of Guangdong, in southeastern China. · shinsen

深山烏

A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family. · miyamagarasu

深山鴉

A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family. · miyamagarasu

深度

the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep · shindo

深掘りした

Thorough; comprehensive.

深淵

Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.] · shin'en

深紅色

Having a deep red colour. · shinkōshoku

深遠

Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure. · shin'en

淵

Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.] · fuchi

混じる

(intransitive) To become mixed together. · majiru

混ぜる

(transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). · mazeru

混ぜ合わせる

To stir or mix (a salad). · mazeawaseru