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財: wealth

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財 [财] cái

noun
: ability; talent

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財 | たから takara

noun
: treasure

財 | わずか wazuka

na-adjective | adverb | noun
: only; merely; (a) little; small quantity

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財 | ざい zai

noun | noun suffix
: fortune; riches
: goods
: (Abbreviation) incorporated foundation

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歸: to return; revert

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歸 [归] guī

adjective | verb
: to return; to go back to, to revert
: to give back to
: (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by
: to belong to
: to gather together
: (used between two identical verbs) despite
: to marry (of a woman) (old)
: division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor

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帰す | きす kisu

godan verb with su ending
: to come to (in the end); to end in
: to attribute; to blame

帰す | かえす kaesu

godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home

帰り | かえり kaeri

noun
: return; coming back

帰る | かえる kaeru

godan verb with ru ending | intransitive verb
: to return; to come home; to go home; to go back
: (of a guest, customer, etc.) to leave
: (of a baseball player rounding the bases) to get home

帰れ | かえれ kaere

noun
: Go home; Get out

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キ ki

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話: dialect; speech, talk, language

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話 [话] huà

noun
: dialect; language
: spoken words; speech; talk; words
: conversation; what somebody said

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話 | はなし hanashi

noun
: talk; speech; chat; story; conversation
: discussions; negotiation; argument

話す | はなす hanasu

godan verb su ending | transitive verb
: to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat
: to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss
: to speak (a language)

話せる | はなせる hanaseru

ichidan verb | intransitive verb
: to be understanding; to be sensible

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話 | わ wa

counter
: counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.

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活: live; exist

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活 huó

noun | adjective | verb
: to live; alive
: survive; living
: work; workmanship

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活き | いき iki

noun
: living; being alive
: freshness; liveliness; vitality
: situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains contains two or more gaps (in go)
: (Usually written using kana alone) stet; (Prefix) damned

活きる | いきる ikiru

godan verb with ru ending | intransitive verb
: to live; to exist
: to make a living; to subsist
: to be in effect; to be in use; to function
: to come to life; to be enlivened
: to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)

活かす | いかす ikasu

godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: to make (the best) use of; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to capitalise on (experience, etc)
: to let live; to keep alive;
: to revive; to resuscitate

活かる | いかる ikaru

godan verb with ru ending | intransitive verb
: to be arranged (flowers, etc.); to be on display
: to be buried

活ける | いける ikeru

ichidan verb | transitive verb
: to arrange (flowers); to plant

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活 | かつ katsu

noun
: living; life
: judo art of resuscitation

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記: to record; to remember

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記 [纪] jì

adjective | verb
: to record; to note
: to remember
: mark; sign
: measure word for blows, kicks, shots

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記す | しるす shirusu OR きす kisu

godan verb with su ending
: to write down; to note; to jot down
: to remember

記する | きする kisuru

suru verb – special class | transitive verb
: to write down; to note
: to remember

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記 | き ki

noun | noun suffix
: account; history; chronicle; annals; record
: (Noun) (Abbreviation) Records of Ancient Matters

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紀: record; order; year

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紀 [纪] jì


: order; discipline
: age; era; period
: to chronicle

紀 [纪] jǐ


: Chinese surname

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none applicable


: chronicle, account, narrative, history, annals, geologic period

記す | しるす shirusu

godan verb with su ending
: to write down; to note; to jot down
: to remember

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紀 | き ki

noun
: (Abbreviation) (geological) period
: (Abbreviation) Nihon-shoki

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已: already; to stop

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已 yǐ

adverb
: self; oneself

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已む OR 止む | やむ yamu

godan verb with mu ending | intransitive verb
: to cease; to stop; to be over

已める OR 止める | やめる yameru

ichidan verb | transitive verb
: to stop; to cease; to end; to quit
: to cancel; to abandon; to give up; to abolish

已に | すでに sudeni

adverb
: already; too late

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