Kamisama no Memochou – Vocabulary list

立たち木き

standing tree; standing timber

1

常じょう緑りょく樹じゅ

evergreen tree

1

水みず飲のみ場ば

drinking fountain; water fountain; bubbler; (animal) watering hole; water hole

1

分ぶん別べつ

separation (e.g. of rubbish when recycling); classification; discrimination; division; distinction

1

揺ゆらぎ

tremor; fluctuation

1

節ふしくれ立だつ

to be knotty (of a tree, etc.); to be gnarled; to be rough and bony (hands, fingers, etc.); to be gnarled; to be knobby

1

アルミニウム

aluminum (Al); aluminium

2

白はく煙えん

white smoke

1

紫し煙えん

purple smoke; tobacco smoke

1

未み練れんがましい

not knowing when to let go (give up, etc.); unwilling to resign; having lingering attachment; regretful

1

一いっ歩ぽ前ぜん進しん

(a) step forward

1

不ふ渡わたり

dishonouring (a bill); dishonoring; bouncing (a cheque, check); non-payment

1

街まち金きん

loan shark; high-interest consumer finance firm

1

女にょう房ぼう

wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)

2

借しゃっ金きんを踏ふみ倒たおす

to default on one's debt

1

母おや娘こ

mother and daughter

1

心こころ置おきなく

freely; frankly; without reserve

1

容よう器き

container; receptacle; vessel; packaging

1

集しゅう落らく

settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony

1

運うん良よく

luckily

1

日ひ雇やとい

daily employment; hiring by the day; day laborer; day labourer

2

流りゅう通つうセンター

Ryuutsuu Center

1

ありつく

to get; to obtain; to come by; to find

1

焼しょう却きゃく炉ろ

incinerator

3

ギ

ceremony; matter; affair; with regard to; as for

1

台だい車しゃ

platform truck; hand truck; trolley; (railway) truck; bogie; flatcar

2

力ちから仕し事ごと

physical work; manual labour (labor)

1

手て配はい師し

(disreputable) recruiter of day laborers (labourers)

1

ペー

north wind tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of north wind tiles

4

皺しわだらけ

wrinkled; full of wrinkles

2

潑はつ剌らつ

lively; vigorous; sprightly; animated; vivid

1

手てづかみ

grasping (with one's bare hands); holding; grabbing; seizing; catching

1

貪むさぼる

to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for; to indulge in; to devour greedily

2

年ねん内ない

by the end of the year

1

行ぎょう政せい代だい執しっ行こう

administrative subrogation

1

やり始はじめる

to start; to start up; to embark on; to get going; to commence

1

しゃれる

to dress stylishly; to joke; to play on words

2

ポール

pole; poll

3

シャンデリア

chandelier

5

くわけ

division; section; demarcation; (traffic) lane; compartment; classification

1

役やく人にん

government official

1

力ちからずくで

by sheer strength; by brute force

1

本ほん腰ごし

strenuous effort; earnestness; seriousness

1

追おい出だし

expulsion; dismissal; ejection; drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)

1

境さかい

border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region

2

硬こう化か

hardening; vulcanization; hardening (of attitude, stance, etc.); stiffening; upturn (in the market); firming up

1

命めい名めい権けん

naming rights

1

若わか者もの文ぶん化か

youth culture

1

発はっ信しん地ち

place of dispatch; place of origin

1

旗はた印じるし

design (on a banner); emblem (on a flag); insignia; banner (e.g. of democracy); slogan; cause

1

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Vocabulary list: Kamisama no Memochou