Japanese DictionaryDefinition of 山/meaning-of-よそ
- (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
- (n, ctr) mountain; hill
あの高い山は筑波山です。
That high mountain is Mt. Tsukuba. - mine (e.g. coal mine)
それはお金の山をかき集めるために用いられた。
It was used for raking together heaps of money. - heap; pile
- (n) crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw); tread (of a tire)
うまくあの先生のやまを当てたわね。
You've sure got the teacher's number. - climax; peak; critical point
- guess; speculation
- criminal case; crime
- festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd)
- (n-pref) wild
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) another place; somewhere else; strange parts
あるものの意味がわかるためには、そのものの外に出て、離れたところからそれを経験することができなければならない。
You have to be outside something, able to experience it from a distance, before it makes sense. - outside (one's family or group); those people
いつもと変えてたまに外で食事しよう。
Let's occasionally change where we go to eat out. - unrelated matter
うちはうち、そとはそと。
Our house, our rules.
- (n) forty
アインシュタインが死んでからほぼ四十年になる。
Einstein has been dead for nearly forty years.
- (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) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
- (n) miniature Chusan palm (Trachycarpus wagnerianus); (poss. Trachycarpus fortunei)
- (n) Gokturks; Sky Turks; Tujue; (powerful Turkic confederation from medieval Inner Asia)