Words — 95 found
にんしょうかん
認証官
1. official whose appointment and dismissal requires Imperial acknowledgement (acknowledgment)
1. person whose physical suitability for conscription in the former Japanese military could not be determined in that year (e.g. due to illness)
しゅうだんはん
集団犯
1. crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (e.g. insurrection)
じゅんしょうごう
順生業
1. sancita karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect is in the next lifeBuddhism
てんてつしゅ
転轍手
1. switchman; pointsman; rail transport worker who operated railway switches (points)
1. bad acquaintance; person whose acquaintance will be harmful
あしなが
足長おじさん
1. anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidentsUsually written using kana alone, from Daddy-Long-Legs, a 1912 novel by Jean Webster
2. Daddy-Long-Legs (novel by Jean Webster, 1912)
じゅくじくん
熟字訓
1. reading assigned to a kanji compound whose constituent characters are related to the word's meaning but not its pronunciation; kanji compound reading that has no correspondence to the readings of the constituent characterse.g. 昨日 (きのう), 大人 (おとな)
ぎじがいこくがいしゃ
擬似外国会社
1. pseudo-foreign company; company based abroad but whose main country of business is JapanLaw, See also 外国会社
きぎょうじょうかまち
企業城下町
1. company town; town whose economy is largely dependent on one company
ねあ
根合わせ
1. neawase; Heian-period game of pulling out sweet flags and competing over whose plant has the longest rootsHistorical term, See also 物合わせ
根合せ 【ねあわせ】
1. eta; group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system and whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcassesHistorical term, Sensitive, derog. when written 穢多
穢多: Ateji (phonetic) reading.