吾輩は猫である – Vocabulary list

達だ磨るま

daruma; tumbling doll; Bodhidharma; prostitute

1

腐くさる

to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved

3

座ざ禅ぜん

zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)

3

澄すます

to clear; to make clear; to be unruffled; to look unconcerned; to look demure; to look prim

4

蔦つた

ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata)

1

大だい師し

great teacher (i.e. a buddha, bodhisattva or high monk, esp. Kobo Daishi)

1

塞ふさぐ

to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up

2

常つねに

always; constantly; at all times; habitually

4

聖ひじり

highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master

1

儒じゅ家か

Confucianist

3

静せい坐ざ

sitting calmly and quietly (i.e. in order to meditate)

2

一いっ室しつ

one room

3

閉へい居きょ

shutting oneself up at home

1

躄いざり

crawling on the ground; shuffling on one's knees; cripple

1

修しゅ行ぎょう

training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

2

熾おき

embers; live charcoal

4

外がい見けん上じょう

outward; superficial; external; apparent

1

沈ちん静せい

settling down; quieting down; cooling down; stillness; quiet; tranquility

1

端たん

origin; beginning; variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; tip; extremity

1

粛しゅく

solemn; respectful; reverent; silent; quiet

1

態てい

appearance; air; condition; state; form

2

凡ぼん眼がん

layman's eyes; untrained eye

2

知ち識しき

knowledge; information

1

巨きょ匠しょう

master; masterhand; maestro

1

仮か死し

(state of) apparent death; suspended animation

1

庸よう人じん

common man

2

穀ごく潰つぶし

good-for-nothing; parasite; deadbeat; loafer; drone; idler

1

誹ひ謗ぼう

slander; abuse

1

視し覚かく

(sense of) sight; eyesight; vision

2

第だい一いち流りゅう

first-class

2

乾かん屎し橛けつ

something worthless; something impure; something unimportant; (lit.) dried excrement in the shape of a stick

1

恨うらむらくは

I regret that; I feel terrible but; I'm sorry but

1

古こ今こん

ancient and modern times; all ages; past and present

2

浅せん薄ぱく

shallow; superficial

2

故こ障しょう

fault; trouble; damage (to a part of the body); injury; problem; hitch

1

挟さしはさむ

to insert; to interrupt; to slip in a word; to harbor (e.g. doubts); to harbour

3

一いっ歩ぽ退ひく

to take a step backward; to retreat a step; to back up

1

俚り耳じ

the ears of the public

1

陽よう春しゅん

spring; the springtime

1

白しら雪ゆき

white snow

1

和わする

to get along; to add (one's own concordant voice, etc.)

1

光こう輝き

brightness; splendour; splendor

1

ゆる

to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to swing

2

電でん鉄てつ

electric railway

1

脱だっ線せん

derailment; digression; deviation

1

辞じ職しょく

resignation

6

勧かん告こく

advice; counsel; remonstrance; recommendation

3

社しゃ会かい的てき

social; societal; societary

3

標ひょう

mark; sign; (arch.) plain wood showing the seating order of officials at court; (arch.) nameplate

1

乃ない至し

from ... to; between ... and; or

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Vocabulary list: 吾輩は猫である