Words — 19 found
メンツ
面子
1. face; honour; honorFrom Chinese “miànzi”
2. meldMahjong
3. lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game)
4. attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members; participants
はだかまつ
裸祭り
1. semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths
裸祭 【はだかまつり】
うらまわ
裏回し
1. (skillfully) giving other participants in a variety TV show the chance to talk by asking them questions or calling them outTV industry jargon
じげいこ
地稽古
1. training by two participants of the same skill level (kendo)Martial arts
2. general training involving all six types (kendo)Martial arts, orig. meaning
あみだ
阿弥陀くじ
1. ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winnerUsually written using kana alone
阿弥陀籤 【あみだくじ】
きんぎょ
金魚すくい
1. goldfish scooping; festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle
金魚掬い 【きんぎょすくい】
金魚掬い: Rarely-used kanji form.
かくおに
隠れ鬼
1. hide-and-seek and tag; children's game where the participants first hide, then run away from the seeker
あみだ
阿弥陀
1. Amitabha (Buddha); AmidaBuddhism
2. ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winnerUsually written using kana alone, Abbreviation, See also 阿弥陀籤 あみだくじ
3. wearing a hat pushed back on one's headUsually written using kana alone, Abbreviation, See also 阿弥陀被り あみだかぶり
4. Amida
阿彌陀 【あみだ】
阿彌陀: Out-dated kanji or kanji usage.
1. quiz-like (TV) comedy segment in which participants improvise one-liners based on a given theme
2. last piece of the day (in a vaudeville or music hall programme, etc.); last-item comic dialogue
大切り 【おおぎり】
大喜利: Ateji (phonetic) reading. 大切り: Rarely-used kanji form.
にんずうあ
人数合わせ
1. matching the number of people; balancing the number of participants; making up the numbers
人数あわせ 【にんずうあわせ】
ていいんしだい
定員になり次第
1. as capacity is reached; once the maximum number of participants is reached
せんごく
戦国
1. country in civil war; country disarrayed by war
3. competition in which there are several evenly matched participants; hotly contested game (match, market, etc.); anybody's game
あかはたじけん
赤旗事件
1. Red Flag Incident (suppression and arrest of participants of anarcho-communist rally in Tokyo; June 22, 1908)Historical term