Kangaeru Chikara wo Tsukeru Hon – Vocabulary list

眼がん前ぜん

before one's eyes

1

ホウフツ

(bearing a) close resemblance; vivid reminder (e.g. of the past); dim; faint; vague

1

おかげで

thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

2

たったいま

just now; a moment ago; this very minute

1

匂におい

odour; odor; scent; aura; whiff; smacks of ...

1

伴ともなう

to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with

1

高こう度ど経けい済ざい成せい長ちょう

rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)

1

韓かん国こく

South Korea; Republic of Korea; Korean Empire (1897-1910)

7

新しん幹かん線せん

Shinkansen; bullet train

2

駅えき弁べん

boxed lunch bought at a station (often a local specialty); sexual position in which one person stands supporting the other

2

見みばえ

good outward appearance; looking nice; being attractive; making a fine show

1

うま味み

good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit

1

に比くらべ

compared to

1

約やく

approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

4

八はっ百ぴゃく

800; eight hundred; multitude; large number

3

素そ朴ぼく

simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

1

単たんなる

mere; simple; sheer

1

備び忘ぼう録ろく

notebook; memorandum; commonplace book

1

超こえる

to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)

2

経へる

to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through

2

夏なつ目め漱そう石せき

Natsume Souseki (1867-1916)

3

日にっ記き

diary; journal

7

明めい治じ

Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

10

二に十じゅう八はち日にち

twenty-eighth day of the month; twenty-eight days

1

京きょう都と

Kyoto (city, prefecture)

1

○まる

circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period

2

海かい道どう

sea route

1

松まつの木き

pine tree

2

居いる

to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

1

注ちゅう釈しゃく

notes; comment; remark; annotation

1

化かする

to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)

4

輪わ

ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends)

2

風ふう車しゃ

windmill; wind turbine; pinwheel (toy); windmill (toy); Clematis patens (species of climbing plant)

3

短たん冊ざく

long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle

1

小しょう児に

young child; infant

1

棺かん

coffin; casket

3

桶おけ

bucket; pail; tub

2

三さん四し郎ろう

Sanshirou

3

小こ

small; little; slightly less than; just about; somewhat; somehow

2

伴とも

companion; follower; attendant; retinue

1

葬そう式しき

funeral

3

羽は織おり

haori (Japanese formal coat)

1

たつ

the Dragon (fifth sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Dragon (around 8am, 7-9am, or 8-10am); east-southeast; third month of the lunar calendar

1

真まっ白しろ

pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)

1

巻まく

to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt

2

傍そば

near; close; beside; third person

1

そば

near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides

4

奇き麗れい

pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely

2

車くるま

car; automobile; vehicle; wheel

3

回かい

counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter

4

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Vocabulary list: Kangaeru Chikara wo Tsukeru Hon