Japanese DictionaryDefinition of きもいり/meaning-of-じかん
- (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
- (v5r, vt) to reel; to wind; to spin (thread)
それがいつだったか日を繰って確かめた。
I counted the days to see when it had happened. - to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to leaf through (a book); to consult (a dictionary); to refer to (an encyclopedia)
- to count (e.g. the days)
- to open one-by-one; to close one-by-one (e.g. shutters)
- (n) character (i.e. kanji)
- hand-writing; penmanship
- the ... word (i.e. "the L word" = "love")
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (vk, vi, aux-v) to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to arrive
１０時までに来ます。
I'll come by 10. - to come back; to do ... and come back
私の父は私に、ぜひそこを見てくるようにといった。
My father insisted that I should go to see the place. - to come to be; to become; to get; to grow; to continue
- (vk, vi) to come from; to be caused by; to derive from
- to come to (i.e. "when it comes to spinach ...")
- (v1, vi) to be (of animate objects); to exist
民主主義に対する信頼をなくした者もいる。
Some have lost faith in democracy. - to stay
おかげで元気にしております。
They're all fine, thank you. - (v1, aux-v) (after the -te form of a verb) verb indicating continuing action or state (i.e. to be ..ing, to have been ..ing)
すっかり食べ終わってはいない。
I haven't quite finished eating.
- (n) face
蛙の面に水。
Like water off a duck's back. - surface
その男はトラの面をかぶっていた。
The man wore a mask of a tiger. - mask (esp. a noh or kyogen mask)
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) Halla okadai (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait)
- (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait)
- red mite (i.e. a chigger)
- (n) hemorrhoids; piles
最近、以前からある痔が痛みます。
Recently my haemorrhoids, which I've had from before, are painful.
- (n) address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; words
- ci (Chinese literary form)
- ancillary word
- (int) used to express approval, especially in slurred or unclear speech (abbr. of interjection "un")
- negative verb ending used in informal speech (abbr. of negative verb ending "nu")
- abbr. of particle "no"
- abbr. of particle "ni" (used especially when it precedes the verb "naru")
- (pref) surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words); excess-; over-
- per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)
- (n) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
- (suf) -ist (used after a noun indicating someone's occupation, pursuits, disposition, etc.); -er
- (ctr) counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); a noun read using its on-yomi
- (ctr) counter for the hito-futa-mi counting system (forming hitotsu, futatsu, mitsu, and misoji, yasoji, etc.)
- (n) pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
- sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
- (n) miniature Chusan palm (Trachycarpus wagnerianus); (poss. Trachycarpus fortunei)
- (n) ground; land; earth; soil
- the region in question; the local area
- skin
- texture; fabric; material; weave
- base; background
- one's true nature
- narrative (i.e. descriptive part of a story)
- real life; actuality
- (in the game of go) captured territory
- noh chorus
- (in Japanese dance) accompaniment music
- (in Japanese music) basic phrase (usu. repetitive)
- base part (of multiple shamisens)
- (n) Gokturks; Sky Turks; Tujue; (powerful Turkic confederation from medieval Inner Asia)