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死: to die; inflexible

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死 sǐ

adjective | verb
: to die; impassable; uncrossable
: inflexible; rigid
: extremely; damned

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死ぬ | しぬ shinu

godan verb with nu ending | intransitive verb
: to die

死に | しに shini

noun
: dying; death
: (Noun prefix) dead; useless
: (Prefix) damned

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死 | し shi

noun | noun suffix
: death; decease
: (Archaism) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation)

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俗: vulgar; common

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俗 sú

adjective
: custom; convention
: popular; common
: coarse; unrefined; vulgar
: secular

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none applicable

慣わし OR 習わし | ならわし narawashi

noun | no-adjective
: customary practice; habit; traditional event

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俗 | ぞく zoku

noun
: layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
: local manners; modern customs;
: common; popular
: vulgar; low

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風: wind

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風 [风] fēng

noun | radical 182
: wind
: news
: style; custom; manner

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風 | かぜ kaze

noun
: wind; breeze

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風 | ふう fuu

na-adjective | noun | noun suffix
: method; manner; way; style
: appearance; air
: tendency
: folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
: wind (one of the five elements)

風 | ふり furi

noun | counter
: swing; shake; wave; swinging;
: (Usually written using kana alone) appearance; behavior;
: (Usually written using kana alone) pretense; show;
: (Usually written using kana alone) lacking a reservation or introduction (at a restaurant, etc.)
: postures (of a dance)
: unsewn part of a hanging sleeve on a traditional Japanese woman’s garment; () counter for swords, blades, etc.

フ fu

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外: outside; external

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外 wài

noun
: outside
: in addition
: foreign; external

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外 | そと soto

noun
: outside; exterior
: open air
: other place

外 | ほか hoka

noun | no-adjective | adverbial noun
: other (esp. places and things); the rest

外 | よそ yoso

noun
: another place; somewhere else; strange parts
: outside (one’s family or group); those people
: unrelated matter

外す | はずす hazusu

godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: to unfasten; to undo
: to remove; to take off; to deinstall
: to leave; to step out; to slip away
: to miss (a target)

外に | ほかに hokani

adverb
: in addition; besides

外れ | はずれ hazure

noun | suffix
: end; verge; extremity; tip; outskirts

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外 | がい gai

noun suffix
: outside of; not covered by

ゲ ge

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殺: to kill

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殺 shā

verb
: to kill; to murder; to slaughter
: to fight; to weaken or reduce
: to smart (dialect)
: to counteract
: (used after a verb) extremely

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殺ぐ | そぐ sogu

godan verb with gu ending
: to chip; to slice off; to sharpen
: to thin down; to reduce; to weaken

殺る | やる yaru

godan verb with ru ending
: to do someone in; to bump someone off

殺し | ころし koroshi

noun
: a murder

殺す | ころす korosu

godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: to kill

殺げる | そげる sogeru

ichidan verb | intransitive verb
: to split; to be split; to splinter

殺める | あやめる ayameru

ichidan verb | transitive verb
: to wound; to murder

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サツ satsu
サイ sai
セツ setsu

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跳: to jump

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跳 tiào

verb
: to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce
: to palpitate

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跳ぶ OR 飛ぶ | とぶ tobu

godan verb with bu ending | intransitive verb
: to jump; to leap; to spring; to bound; to hop
: to fly; to soar

跳ね | はね hane

noun
: (a) jump
: splashes (usu. of mud)
: upward turn at the bottom (e.g. of a vertical stroke of a kanji or of a hairdo)
: close (e.g. of a theatrical performance); breakup

跳る | おどる odoru

godan verb with ru ending | intransitive verb
: to jump; to leap
: to pound (of one’s heart, i.e. with excitement); to throb
: to be messily written

跳ねる | はねる haneru

ichidan verb | intransitive verb
: to jump; to leap; to prance; to spring up; to bound; to hop
: to break up; to close; to come to an end
: to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)

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チョウ chou

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兆: omen

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兆 zhào

numeral
: omen; to foretell
: million; mega-; trillion; tera-; billion (old)

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兆し | きざし kizashi

noun
: signs; omen; symptoms

兆す | きざす kizasu

noun
: to show signs (symptoms)

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兆 | ちょう chou

noun
: sign; omen; indication; portent
: (Numeric) 10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion (American); (Obsolete term) billion (British)

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復: return

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[复] fù


: to go and return; to return; to return to a normal or original state
: to resume
: to repeat; again
: to recover; to restore
: to turn over
: to reply; to answer; to reply to a letter
: to retaliate; to carry out

[复] fù


: to cover
: to overflow
: to overturn; to capsize
: variant of 復; to reply to a letter

[复] fù


: to repeat; to double; to overlap
: complex (not simple); compound; composite
: double
: diplo-
: duplicate; overlapping; to duplicate

Kun Reading

復 OR 又 | また mata

adverb | conjunction | prefix
: again; and; also; still (doing something)

復す | ふくす fukusu

godan verb with su ending
: to return to normal; to recover; to restore

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フク fuku

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