Japanese DictionaryDefinition of きもいり/meaning-of-りつりょうせい
- (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) surname; family name
あなたの姓はどう発音するのですか。
How do you pronounce your last name? - hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) height; stature
ジェーンは背を木にもたれかけて待っていた。
Jane was waiting with her back against the tree.
- (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 ...")
- (n) law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation
- (Buddh) vinaya (rules for the monastic community)
- Ritsu (school of Buddhism)
- lushi (style of Chinese poem)
- (musical) pitch
- six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
- Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
- (n, n-suf, ctr) (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)
- (n) hostel; dormitory
- bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system)
- (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) dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon)
私はずっと竜が見たかったのですが、竜は現実の生物ではないのです。
I have always wanted to see a dragon, but dragons are not real creatures. - naga (semidivine human-cobra chimera in Indian mythology)
- promoted rook (shogi)
- (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, pref) both (e.g. both shoulders, etc.)
両地域は宗教と文化が違っている。
The two regions differ in religion and culture. - (n) ryo (obsolete unit of currency)
この列車は七両編成です。
This train is made up of seven cars. - 41-42 g (one sixteenth of a kin)
- 2 tan (measure of fabric size)
- (ctr) counter for carriages (e.g. in a train)
- (n) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
- (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) Gokturks; Sky Turks; Tujue; (powerful Turkic confederation from medieval Inner Asia)
- (n) Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i