Grave of the Fireflies – Vocabulary list

特とっ攻こう

suicide attack; kamikaze attack

1

よか

than; rather than; instead of; from; since; except

1

顔かお

face; visage; look; (facial) expression; honor (honour); face; influence

2

見みえる

to be seen; to be visible; to look; to seem; to come

1

カンザシ

ornamental hairpin

1

光ひかり

light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence; power

1

窓まど

window

1

雪ゆき

snow; snowfall

1

生うむ

to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

1

観かん艦かん式しき

naval review

2

巡じゅん洋よう艦かん

cruiser (warship)

2

摩ま耶や

Maya

1

乗のる

to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow

1

連れん合ごう艦かん隊たい

combined fleet

2

勢せいぞろい

assembling (in full force); muster; lining up; gathering; getting together

1

敵てっ機き

enemy plane

1

来らい襲しゅう

(incoming) attack; raid; invasion; assault

1

戦せん争そう

war; fighting; fierce competition

2

苦くるしい

painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)

1

墓はか

grave; gravesite; tomb

4

作つくる

to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till

3

中なか

inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during

1

いつか

sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course

1

覚おぼえる

to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think

1

へんか

change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension

1

布ぬの引びき

stretching of cloth

1

近ちかく

near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon

1

墓ぼ地ち

cemetery; graveyard

1

木き

tree; shrub; wood; timber; wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)

1

下した

below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after

2

誰だれか

someone; somebody

1

おっさん

middle-aged man; Buddhist priest

1

ちゃうか

isn't it?

1

いっちょまえ

adult; grown-up; person who has come of age; fully fledged; established; qualified

1

ブランコ

swing; trapeze

1

子こ供ども

child; children

2

本ほん物もの

genuine article; real thing; real deal

1

セツコ

Setsuko

2

干ひ物もの

dried fish (or shellfish, etc.)

1

タ

multi-

1

件けん

matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)

2

坊ぼう

bonze; monk; monk's dwelling; boy; son; I; me

1

ひきわり

sawing lengthwise (timber, lumber)

1

大だい豆ず

soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy

3

ばっか

only; merely; nothing but; no more than

1

オバケ

ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large

1

米べい

(United States of) America; USA

1

おじさん

uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)

1

色いろ々いろ

various; a variety of; variously; in various ways; various things; this and that

1

農のう家か

farmer; farming family; farmhouse; School of Agrarianism (China); School of Agronomists

1

jpdb beta

Vocabulary list: Grave of the Fireflies