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天文

1 NATURAL PHENOMENA

夕日

 

3 setting sun / evening sun

2 Sky, Air, Heaven, Vacancy

夕陽

3 evening sun / setting sun

青空

3 blue sky

落日

3 setting of the sun / setting sun

大空

3 (blue) vault of heaven / firmament / arch of sky / spherical, concave

落暉

3 sunset / setting sun / evening sun

3 heaven / sky / sphere / upper region / head, edge / head of page

2 Stars

天体

3 astronomic(al) object, celestial globe, heavenly body, luminary

星座

3 constellation

天空

3 airy region / expanse / firmament / sphere

恒星

3 fixed star

天心

3 the center of heaven / the center of sky

惑星

3 planet

宇宙

3 absolute / cosmos / heaven and earth / world

彗星

3 comet

空間

3 interspace / interval / open space / room / vacancy / vacuity / void

大熊座

3 The Great Bear / the Big Dipper / Ursa Major / the Plow

地球

2 Blue Planet, Earth, Globe

カシオペア

3 Cassiopeia

南極

3 South Pole / negative pole / south geographic pole

2 Eclipse

北極

3 North Pole / north geographic pole / north-seeking pole / positive pole

日食

3 solar eclipse

緯度

3 degrees of latitude / terrestrial latitude

月食

3 lunar eclipse

経度

3 longitude

宇宙船

2 Spaceship, Starship, Rocket Ship

日付変更線

3 International Date Line

人工衛星

3 satellite / artificial satellite

太陽

2 The Sun

宇宙旅行

3 space travel / space voyage

日輪

3 sun disk

2 Cloud, The Clouds

烈日

3 the burning sun

浮雲

3 floating cloud / drifting cloud

朝日

3 morning sun / rising sun

白雲

3 white cloud

旭日

3 risen sun

飛行機雲

3 contrail / vapor trail / condensation  / trail / streamer

 


 

天文 NATURAL PHENOMENA (continued)

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2 Wind, Air Current(s)

2 Darkness, The Dark

海風

3 sea breeze / wind from the sea

暗い

3 dark

陸風

3 land breeze / land wind

冥い

3 dark

微風

3 breeze

暗がり

3 dark place

疾風

3 blast / strong wind

暗闇

3 darkness

2 Rain

夜陰

3 the darkness of the night

雨脚

3 manner of raining / wisp of rain

時間

2 Time

長雨

3 continual rain / long spell of rain

光陰

3 days / day and night

大雨

3 heavy rain / downpour

星霜

3 years

通り雨

3 passing rain / shower

世紀

3 century

にわか雨

3 sudden shower

白亜紀

3 the Cretaceous period

涙雨

3 sprinkling rain / weeping rain

五十億年

3 five billion years

酸性雨

3 acid rain

未来

2 Future

日溜り

2 Sunny Place, Sunny and Warm Place

2 Year

2 Light

歳月

3 years

閃光

3 flash / gleam / glint of light

年月

3 years and months

発光

3 emission of light / luminescence

四季

3 the four seasons

光芒

3 shaft of light / beam of light

季節

3 season

微光

3 glimmer

平年

3 common year

極光

3 aurora

閏年

3 intercalary year / leap year

反射光

3 reflected light

カレンダー

3 calendar

2 Shadow

3 calendar

影法師

human shadow / silhouette

万歳

3 many years / longevity / prospering for a long time

 


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月日

2 Days, Days and Months

夕暮れ

2 Evening, Dusk

3 week

3 evening

曜日

3 the day of the week

夕方

3 evening

昨日

3 yesterday

黄昏

3 dusk / twilight

今日

3 today

日暮れ

3 sunset

明日

3 tomorrow

夕闇

3 evening gloom / film of early twilight / shadows of dusk

時代

2 Era, Period, Age, Epoch, Time

薄暮

3 evening gloom

明治

3 Meiji era

暮れ六つ

3 six in the evening / 6 p.m.

大正

3 Taisho era

2 Night

昭和

3 Showa era

夜間

3 nighttime / during the night

平成

3 Heisei era

深夜

3 middle of the night

戦前

3 before the war / prewar

真夜中

3 midnight / middle of the night

戦後

3 postwar / after World War II

午前零時

3 midnight / 12 a.m.

2 Morning

夜更け

3 late at night / middle of the night

3 dawn / daybreak

深更

3 middle of the night

夜明け

3 dawn / daybreak

方位

2 Direction, Azimuth, Bearing

明け六つ

3 six in the morning

方角

3 bearing / direction

午前

3 before noon / forenoon / morning

東西南北

3 north, south, east and west /

four cardinal directions / four points of the compass

2 Daytime

鬼門

3 demon's gate / the quarter lying to the northeast of one’s position, superstitiously believed to be unlucky / northeast

正午

3 noon / midday

恵方

3 lucky direction

午後

3 afternoon

距離

2 Distance

白日

3 the bright sun / broad daylight

一里塚

3 milestone / milepost


地理  GEOGRAPHY

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地理

1 GEOGRAPHY

原野

3 an uncultivated field/a plain/wasteland/a wilderness

2 Land

ツンドラ

2 Tundra

大陸

3 continent / mainland / terra firma

地震

2 Earthquake(shock), Earth tremor

大地

3 firm ground / mother earth / terra firma/ terrestrial mass

砂漠

2 Desert

地平線

3 celestial horizon / horizon / horizon line / skyline

2  Mountain, Peak, Hill

平野

3 plain / plain field

山脈

3 a mountain range / a mountain chain

荒野

3 heath / wild land / wilderness / cant / declination /

山岳

3 mountains

傾斜

3 dip / drop-off / grade / gradient / heeling / inclination / lean / pitch / skew / slant / slope / tilt

裏山

3 a hill in back of one’s house

2 Clay, Clod, Dirt, Earth

3 the highest point on a mountain road / mountain pass

3 earth / ground

3 precipice / cliff / bluff

土地

3 climate / country / estate / ground / land / land lot / place / premises / terrene / white land

雑木林

3 thicket / copse/ coppice

3 paddy field / rice field

未踏峰

3 unclimbed mountain / untrodden peak

荒田

3 abandoned field / /rough field

山畑

3 a mountain field

土埃

3 dust cloud / dirt / dust / fog / mote

火山

2 A volcano

休耕田

3 a fallow field / a field lying fallow

火口

3 (volcanic) crater / a caldera (over 1km)

2 A Wood, Woods, Grove, Forest

火砕流

3 pyroclastic flow / stream of heated rocks and volcanic ash

3 woods / a shrine (sacred) forest

噴火

3 an eruption

3 a grove / a small wood/ a copse

噴煙

3 smoke (fumes) of a volcano (rising from a crater) / volcanic fumes

森林

3 a forest / deep woods

2 Valley, Pressure trough

草原

2 Grass-covered Plain, Grasslands,  Steppes, Savanna, The Pampas

渓谷

3 ravine/ a gorge

野原

3 a field / a plain

谷間

3 glen / hollow / quebrada / valley / defile / cove / swale

大草原

3 campo / pampas / prairie / steppe

山峡

3 a gorge

 


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2 An echo

ダム湖

3 a dammed lake

山彦

3 an echo (in the mountains)

湖上

3 on the lake

2 A Stone, Pebble, Rock

湖底

3 the bottom of a lake

岩石

3 a rock / stones and rocks

湖水

3 a lake / lake water

3 a rock / a crag

澪標

2 Wooden poles set in the water to guide boats , a deep‑water channel

岩いわお

3 a rock (especially, rough and pointing sharply to the sky)

2 The tide, A current

巌いわ

3 a large rock / boulder

3 the tide

山河

2 Mountains and Rivers

干潮

3 ebb tide/ low tide

河川

2 Rivers

引き潮

3 an ebb tide / (begin to ebb)

3 (a small) river / stream

満潮

3 high water / a high tide/ a full (flood) tide

3 (a large) river

満ち潮

3 a high tide / (sim. to 満潮, but a softer impression)

水源

3 the source (headwaters) of a river / fountainhead

潮騒

3 the sound (booming, roar) of the sea/ the pounding of the waves/

せせらぎ

3 small stream/  brook/ runnel / a rivulet/ a shallows

海潮音

3 the sound of waves and the sea

小川

3 a (small) stream / creek / brook / a rivulet

湾流

3 bay current

谷川

3 a mountain stream (torrent)

2 The Sea, The Ocean

急流

3 a fast-flowing (rapid, swift) stream/ a fast (swift) current / rapids/ a torrent

海洋

3 the sea / the ocean

伏流水

3 riverbed water / artesian water

大海

3 the ocean / a wide expanse of sea

水たまり

3 a pool / a puddle

深海

3 ocean deeps / an abyss

湖沼

2 Lakes, Marshes

水平線

3 the horizon

3 a lake

 

3 a marsh / a swamp / a bog / a tarn

 


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2 A wave,  Billow, Swell,

Surf, A Breaker

大波

3 a billow / a great wave of the sea / a boomer / a roller / a swell / a surge

小波

3 a small wave

白波

3 white‑(foam)-crested wave(s) / foaming (white capped) breakers / whitecaps

荒波

3 raging waves / rough waters / heavy seas

波頭

3 the crest of a wave

波涛

3 billows / surges

3 offshore / out at sea

2 A beach,  A shore, The seashore

3 the beach / the shore

海岸線

3 the coastline / shore line / seaboard / a coastal railroad

2 Sand, Grit, A Grain of Sand

砂浜

3 a sandy beach / the sands

砂丘

3 a sand dune / a sand hill

2 A Cape, Promontory, Headland, Spit of Land

半島

3 a peninsula

3 an island / an isle / an islet

日本の地名

2 Place names of Japan

外国の地名

2 Overseas Place names

 


人間  HUMAN

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人間

1 HUMAN

誕生

2 Birth

人間

2 Human Being

産声

3 initial cry

3 person

産湯

3 first birth

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3 Homo sapiens (ホモサピエンス)

産着

3 baby clothes

男女

2 Man and Woman

誕生日

3 birthday

3 man

生誕

3 nativity

3 woman

赤子

2 Baby

処女

3 virgin

赤ん坊

3 babe

2 Self

嬰児

3 nursling

わたし

3 I (neutral speech)

3幼児

3 kid

3 I (male speech)

乳児

3 infant

人名

2 Personal Name

胎児

3 fetus

姓名

3 name

少年  少女

2 Boy * Girl

名前

3 someone's name

少年期

3 boyhood

人名

2 To Live

少女期

3 girlhood

生きる

2 Human Life

美童

3 pretty boy

人生

3 course of life

美少女

3 pretty girl

一生

3 lifetime

童女

3 little girl

半生

3 half a life

青年

2 Young Man or Woman

生死

3 life and death

青春

3 youth

 

青春期

3 adolescence

 


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結婚

2 Marriage

3 grandsire

婚礼

3 nuptials

3 beldam

結婚式

3 wedding ceremony

還暦

3 kanreki (end of the traditional 60‑year cycle)

花婿

3 bridegroom

長生き

3 longevity

花嫁

3 bride

長命

3 length of one’s days

仲人

3 go-between

晩年

3 evening of life, last days

介添人

3 bridesmaid

2 Death

結納

3 betrothal gift

死ぬ

3 to die

披露宴

3 wedding reception

死亡

3 demise / mortality

独り者

2 Unmarried person

大往生

3 die a calm death

独身

3 being single (bachelorhood, spinsterhood)

他界

3 pass away

出産

2 Childbearing

永眠

3 one's final rest

妊娠

3 pregnancy

身罷る

3 expire

受胎

3 conception

後の世

3 afterworld

身籠る

3 gestate / gestation

臨終

3 dying breath / deathbed

悪阻

3 morning sickness

死に水

3 wet a dying person’s mouth / attend someone’s deathbed

分娩

3 delivery

死者

3 dead

中年

2 Middle age

死体

3 dead body

更年期

3 climacteric

遺体

3 deceased

老年

2 Old age

遺言

2 Last will

老い

3 aging

遺言状

3 last will and testament

老人

3 elder person

遺書

3 farewell note

年寄り

3 oldster

葬式

2 Funeral

老爺

3 old man

葬儀

3 funeral ceremony / funeral service

老婆

3 old woman

3 mourning

 

鯨幕

3 kujiramaku (funeral curtain)

 


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遺影

2 Portrait of the Deceased

頭脳

3 grey matter / brains / intellectual power

2 Coffin

右脳

3 right brain

3 casket

左脳

3 left brain

3 coffin

大脳

3 cerebrum

納棺

3 place in a coffin

小脳

3 cerebellum

出棺

3 funeral cortege

2 Ear

葬る

3 entomb

耳朶

3 ear lobule

火葬

3 cremation

耳たぶ

3 ear lobe

鳥葬

3 sky burial

福耳

3 big ear lobes

土葬

3 burial

外耳

3 external ear

埋葬

3 sepulcher

内耳

3 internal ear

水葬

3 burial at sea

地獄耳

3 sharp ear

埋葬書

3 burial document

2 Face

2 Tomb

3 visage

墓石

3 tombstone

素顔

3 natural face

墓標

3 grave post

童顔

3 baby face

墓地

3 cemetery

丸顔

3 moon face

霊園

3 grave yard

馬面

3 horsy face

身体

2 Body, Corporeity, Frame

紅顔

3 red face

身体

3 body

2 Eye

3 body

まなこ

3 ocular

3 flesh

3 pupil

肉体

3 flesh and blood / corporeality

3 pupilla

女体

2 Body (frame) of  woman

目玉

3 eye ball

女身

3 female body

眼球

3 globe of eye

2 Head

両目

3 both eyes

こうべ

3 crown

両眼

3 binocular

2 Brain

3 eyelid

脳味噌

3 encephalon

 

 


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2 Nose

2 Neck

鼻梁

3 nasal bridge

うなじ

3 nape

鼻筋

3 ridge of the nose

首筋

3 scruff

鼻孔

3 nostril

2 Jaw

鼻の穴

3 nasal chamber

おとがい

3 chin

鼻先

3 before someone's nose

上顎

3 upper jaw

2 Mouth

下顎

3 under jaw

口腔

3 oral cavity

2 Throat

口元

3 around mouth

咽喉

3 throat region

2 Lip

喉仏

3 Adam's apple

2 Tongue

喉元

3 neck

べろ

3 tongue

2 Hair

巻き舌

3 rolling one's tongue

3 head hair

二枚舌

3 forked tongue

頭髪

3 chevelure (French: head of hair)

2 Tooth

黒髪

3 brunette hair

前歯

3 front tooth

白髪

3 gray hair

奥歯

3 back tooth

髪型

3 hairstyle

乳歯

3 baby tooth

長髪

3 long hair

糸切り歯

3 canine tooth

抜け毛

3 hair loss

八重歯

3 double tooth

3 beard

入れ歯

3 false tooth

胸毛

3 chest hair

義歯

3 artificial tooth

恥毛

3 pubic hair

2 Cheek

2 Shoulder

ほっぺた

3 sweet cheek

撫で肩

3 sloping shoulder

豊頬

3 plump cheek

怒り肩

3 square shoulder

 

肩こり

3 stiff neck

肩叩き

3 shoulder tap (put pressure on someone to resign)

 


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2 Chest

手足

2 Limb

胸元

3 bosom

2 Back

乳房

3 breast

背中

3 broad of the back

乳首

3 nipple

2 Lower back

3 milk

3 loin

2 Hand

臀部

3 lumber

両手

3 both hands

3 bottom

右手

3 right hand

ウエスト

3 waist

左手

3 left hand

ヒップ

3 hip

3 fist

柳腰

3 stoop

3 palm

2 Foot

手相

3 palm line

3 leg

3 arm

3 thigh

二の腕

3 upper arm

3 groin

細腕

3 thin arm

3 shin

3 elbow

3 knee

3 armpit

膝小僧

3 kneecap

2 Nail

足首

3 ankle

3深爪

3 pare nails to the quick

足音

3 footstep

3生爪

3 finger nail

陰部

2 Pubic region

3爪切り

3 nail clipper

3 pubis

3爪先

3 tiptoe

女陰

3 vagina

3爪痕

3 nail mark

男根

3 penis

2 Finger

ふぐり

3 testicle

3指きり

3 pinky promise

 

3指折り

3 count on one's fingers

3指紋

3 finger print

 

 


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内蔵

2 Internal organs

糞尿

2 Excretory substances

心臓

3 heart

排泄

3 elimination

3 lung

脱糞

3 incontinence

肝臓

3 liver

小便

3 urine

五臓六腑

3 five solid organs & six hollow organs

尿

3 pee

膀胱

3 vesica

尿[しと]

3 piss

胎内

3 womb

糞詰まり

3 constipation

2 Bone

野糞

3 feces in a field

頭蓋骨

3 skull

肥壺

3 manure pile

頭蓋

3 cranium

2 Tear(s)

背骨

3 spine

3 eye water

脊椎

3 vertebral column

感涙

3 weep

尾骶骨

3 coccyx

落涙

3 tear drop

尾骨

3 tailbone

血涙

3 bitter tears

鎖骨

3 collar bone

空涙

3 fake tears

骨片

3 bone fragment

2 Skin

2 Blood

皮膚

3 derma

血液

3 lifeblood

3 wrinkle

血圧

3 blood pressure

筋肉

3 muscle

血圧

3 low pressure

細胞

3 cell

低血圧

3 high pressure

2 Love

高血圧

3 blood vessel

恋人

3 lover

血管

3 artery

初恋

3 first love

動脈

3 vein

失恋

3 lost love

 

 

 


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2 Love

倖せ

3 Happiness for human being(s)

恋愛

3 romance

不安

2 fear

純愛

3 Platonic love

気懸かり

3 worry

相愛

3 mutual love

悲観

3 pessimism

求愛

3 courtship

疑い

3 uncertainty

博愛

3 caritas

猜疑心

3 suspicion

友愛

3 companionate love

疑惑

3 doubt

愛語

3 word of mercy

想像

2 Imagination

情事

2 Love Affair

2 Dream

不倫

3 adultery

夢路

3 path of dream

貞操

3 chastity

夢見

3 have a dream

2 Mind

正夢

3 prophetic dream

心理

3 mentality

逆夢

3 opposite dream

怒り

2 Anger

悪夢

3 nightmare

憤怒

3 rage

夢幻

3 illusion

忿懣

3 wrath

立つ

2 Stand

悲しい

2 Sadness

立ち上がる

3 stand up

悲嘆

3 lament

起つ

3 gain one's feet

悲痛

3 agony

歩く

2 Walk

愁い

2 Grief

歩行

3 walking

憂い

3 anxiety

徒歩

3 on foot

気鬱

3 feel depressed

徒歩

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3 trek

孤愁

3 lonesome

走る

2 Run

孤独

3 solitude

駆ける

3 rush

憂鬱

3 depression

疾走

3 scamper, career

寂しい

2 Lonely, Loneliness

疲れる

2 Tire

淋しい

3 solitary

疲れ

3 get tired

寂寞

3 desolate

疲労

3 tiredness / fatigue

寂寥

3 gaunt

眠る

2 Sleep

2 Sex

寝る

3 repose

性欲

3 lust

睡る

3 drowse

性感帯

3 erogenous zone

就寝

3 go to bed

幸福

2 Happiness

臥す

3 lie down

幸せ

3 happy

 

至福

3 bliss

 


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食う

2 Eat

肉親

2 Blood Relation

食べる

3 meat

3 parent

喰らう

3 bite

親子

3 parent-child

酔う

2 Get Drunk

父母

3 father-mother

ほろ酔い

3 tipsy

父親

3 father

深酔い

3 get very drunk

3 daddy

酩酊

3 inebriation

親父

3 old buddy

笑う

2 Laugh

父さん

3 papa

哄笑う

3 laugh jeeringly

老父

3 old father

高笑い

3 guffaw

母親

2 Mother

笑む

3 grin

3 Mom

微笑

3 smile

おふくろ

3 old lady

嘲笑

3 laugh in scorn

母さん

3 Mommy

泣く

2 Cry

老母

3 old mother

慟哭

3 wail

母性

3 motherhood

号泣

3 lament aloud

子供

2 Child

すすり泣く

3 sob

3 kid

会う

2 Meet

嬰児

3 infant

3逢う

3 get together

吾子

3 speaker's baby

3再会

3 meet again

子離れ

3 independence from an attachment to one's child

3邂逅

3 cross paths

夫婦

2 Couple

別れる

2 Part

夫妻

3 husband and wife

3離別

3 estrangement

3 husband

3決別