Meaning of きもいり/meaning-of-こう in Japanese
Definition of きもいり/meaning-of-こう
- (n) rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya)
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grasshopper; locust (of family Catantopidae)
イナゴが大群をなしてやってきた。
Locusts came in big swarms.
- (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
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(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) season; weather
- (n) efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success
- (n) filial piety
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(n) good luck; fortune; happiness
幸にも授業に間に合った。
Fortunately, I made it to the class. - harvest; yield
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(n) 10^32; hundred nonillion (American); (obs) hundred quintillion (British)
彼はその浅い溝を飛び越えた。
He leaped over the shallow ditch.
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(n) manuscript; version; draft
彼は最終稿に忙しく取り組んでいる。
He is busy with the final draft.
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
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(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 ...")
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(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) 7th in rank; seventh sign of the Chinese calendar
- (n) carapace; shell
- 1st in rank; grade A
- instep; back of hand
- the A party (e.g. in a contract); the first party
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(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) rickets
- someone suffering from rickets
- (n) box
- car (of a train, etc.)
- shamisen case; shamisen
- man who carries a geisha's shamisen
- receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces)
- (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) ancient skirt
- (n) incense
- (pref) anti-
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(suf) harbour
その船はいま港にある。
The ship is now in the harbor.
- (n) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
- (n) (biological) class
- (v5r) to set beyond the Western horizon (i.e. the sun)
- (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) large river (esp. the Yangtze)
- Lake Biwa
- (n) yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram)
- (n) miniature Chusan palm (Trachycarpus wagnerianus); (poss. Trachycarpus fortunei)
- (n) tribute
- (n) one-fifth of the night (approx. 2 hours)
- (n) merit; success; meritorious deed
- achievement; accumulated experience
- (n-suf) (factory) worker
- (pref) good
- (n) invasion; invader
- (n) hardness
- (n) death (of a nobleman, etc.)
- (n) Gokturks; Sky Turks; Tujue; (powerful Turkic confederation from medieval Inner Asia)
