Japanese–English dictionary

乳飲み子

A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention. · chinomigo

乳首

(anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted. [from 16th c.] · chikubi

乳香

A type of incense obtained from the Boswellia thurifera tree. · nyuukō

乾

The intercardinal compass point halfway between west and north; specifically at a bearing of 315°. · inui

乾いた

Free from or lacking moisture. · kawaita

乾かす

(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry. · kawakasu

乾く

Free from or lacking moisture. · kawaku

乾パン

(nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships. · kanpan

乾杯

Cheers! (the drinking toast) · kanpai

乾燥

(uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated · kansō

乾燥機

An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum. · kansōki

乾物

A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt. · kanbutsu

乾物屋

A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store. · kanbutsuya

乾留液

(usually, uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.

乾癬

(disease) A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched. · kansen

乾酪

(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. · kanraku

亀

Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly, North America) or the order Testudines (chiefly, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India) , whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators. · kame

亀裂

The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft. [from 19th c.] · kiretsu

了解

Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence. · ryōkai

了解しました

(informal, or, military) Used to express assent, especially to a male superior.

予て

(with past-tense constructions) At an earlier time; already. · kanete

予め

At an earlier or preceding time. · arakajime

予備

A reserve or substitute. · yobi

予備兵力

(military) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

予備役

(military) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency. · yobieki

予備的

In preparation for the main matter; initial, introductory, preparatory. · yobiteki

予告編

A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector. · yokokuhen

予報

An estimation of a future condition. · yohō

予定

A set of structured activities; a plan of action. · yotei

予定外

unintentional; not intended · yoteigai

予定表

A tabular schedule of events with the times at which they occur, especially times of arrivals and departures. · yoteihyō

予想

(transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect. · yosō

予想内

Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur

予想外

Not expected, anticipated or foreseen. · yosōgai

予想通り

Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur · yosōdoori

予感

(idiomatic) An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale. · yokan

予期

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

予測

(obsolete) To provide. · yosoku

予測不能性

(uncountable) The state of being unpredictable.

予熱

(transitive) to heat beforehand or in advance, to heat something in preparation for further action · yonetsu

予知

(obsolete) To provide. · yochi

予示する

To foreshadow vaguely.

予約

(government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court. · yoyaku

予約する

(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

予行

The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done. · yokō

予行演習

The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done. · yokōenshuu

予見

(obsolete) To provide. · yoken

予言

(parapsychology) Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception. [from 15th c.] · yogen

予言者

Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer. · yogensha

予選

Any of a series of sports events that determine the finalists · yosen

予防

Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good. · yobō

予防接種

(US, uncountable) The process by which any organism's body develops immunity against a pathogen. · yobōsesshu

争い

(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement. · arasoi

争う

(intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight · arasō

争で

(interrogative) To what degree or extent. · ikade

事

An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic. · koto

事件

(often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public. · jiken

事例

An actual event, situation, or fact. · jirei

事前

(Bayesian, _, statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected. · jizen

事務処理

(uncountable) Routine work involving written documents. · jimushori

事務員

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. · jimuin

事務室

An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). · jimushitsu

事務局

The office or department of a government secretary. · jimukyoku

事務弁護士

In many common law jurisdictions, a type of lawyer whose traditional role is to offer legal services to clients apart from acting as their advocate in court. A solicitor instructs barristers to act as an advocate for their client in court, although rights of audience for solicitors vary according to jurisdiction. · jimubengoshi

事務所

An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). · jimusho

事変

(countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition. · jihen

事実

(manner) In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately. · jijitsu

事実上

In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status. · jijitsujō

事情

Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event. · jijō

事故

An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans. · jiko

事業

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment. · jigyō

事業家

A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks. [from 1762] · jigyōka

二

Double, twice the quantity. · ni

二、三

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

二つ

Two of the same kind connected or considered together. · futatsu

二七日

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, _, in North America) A period of 2 weeks. · futananuka

二乗

(mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression. · nijō

二乗する

(transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.

二人

Two of the same kind connected or considered together. · futari

二倍

Of twice the quantity. · nibai

二分法

A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division. · nibunhō

二十

The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one. · nijuu

二十年代

The decade of the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.

二和音

(music) Any set of two different pitch classes.

二回

Two times. · nikai

二国間

Involving both sides equally. · nikokukan

二年ごとの

Happening every two years.

二年生

(US, Philippines) A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school. · ninensei

二年生の

Lasting for two years.

二年間続く

Lasting for two years.

二度

(music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental). · nido

二心

Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing. · futagokoro

二月

The short month following January and preceding March in the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, used in all three calendars for intercalation or addition of leap days. · nigatsu

二枚舌

Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing. · nimaijita

二枚舌を使うような

Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.

二枚貝

Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged sections, such as a scallop, clam, mussel or oyster. · nimaigai

二次的

Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc. · nijiteki

二番煎じ

Imitating; copying; not original. · nibansenji

二番目

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two. · nibanme

二等兵

A soldier of the lowest rank in the army. · nitōhei

二義的

Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc. · nigiteki

二言語で書かれた

Spoken or written in two different languages.

二言語に通じた人

A person who is able to use two languages.

二言語を自由に話せる

Having the ability to speak two languages fluently.

二週間

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, _, in North America) A period of 2 weeks. · nishuukan

二進法

(mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1. · nishinhō

二酸化物

(chemistry) Any oxide containing two oxygen atoms in each molecule.

二重

Of twice the quantity. · nijuu

二重スパイ

(espionage) An internal spy; a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within. · nijuusupai

二重唱

(musician group) Two musicians who perform music together. · nijuushō

二重奏

(musician group) Two musicians who perform music together. · nijuusō

二重引用符

A statement attributed to a person; a quotation. · nijuuin'yōfu

二重語

(quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.

二重鉤括弧

A summary of work to be done with a set price; a quotation.

二頭筋

(anatomy) Any muscle having two heads. · nitōkin

互い

(reciprocal pronoun) To one another; one to the other; signifies that a verb applies to two or more entities both as subjects and as direct objects: · tagai

互いに

(reciprocal pronoun) To one another; one to the other; signifies that a verb applies to two or more entities both as subjects and as direct objects: · tagaini

互換性

(telecommunication) the capability of two or more items or components of equipment or material to exist or function in the same system or environment without mutual interference. · gokansei

五

The digit/figure 5. · go

五つ

A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six. · itsutsu

五つ子

One of a group of five, particularly babies born from the same mother during the same birth. · itsutsugo

五十

The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one. · gojuu

五十年代

The decade of the 1850s, 1950s, etc.

五度

(music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale) · godo

五徳

A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire. · gotoku

五月

The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June. · gogatsu

五番目

The ordinal form of the number five.

五稜堡

The headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. · goryōho

五種競技

(athletics) Ellipsis of modern pentathlon, a discipline with five events based on late-19th century basic military skills. · goshukyōgi

五線

(music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave. · gosen

五芒星

The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon. · gobōsei

五角形

(geometry) A polygon with five sides and five angles. · gokakukei

五輪

(rare) Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods. · gorin

五輪の塔

A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. [from 16th c.] · gorinnotō

五重の塔

A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. [from 16th c.] · gojuunotō

五重唱

(music) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) · gojuushō

五重奏

(music) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) · gojuusō

井守

A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard. · imori

井戸

A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. · ido

井桁

(typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound). · igeta

些事

(figurative) A thing of little value; a toy, a trifle. · saji

些細

Insignificant or trivial enough to be ignored. · sasai

些細なトラブル

(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.

亜

Almost, nearly. · a

亜剌比亜

A peninsula of West Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. · arabia

亜成虫

(zoology) A stage in the development of certain insects, intermediate between pupa and imago, during which the insect can fly but must shed a skin before becoming mature.

亜洲

The largest continent, located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.

亜流

A person who imitates or apes another. · aryuu

亜燐酸塩

(chemistry) any salt or ester of phosphorous acid

亜爾然丁

A country in South America. Official name: Argentine Republic. Capital: Buenos Aires. · aruzenchin