Skip to main content
Tag

mysticism

震: to shake

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning

震 zhèn

noun
: to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; to tremor
: excited; shocked
: one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing thunder; ☳

Kun Reading

震い | ふるい furui

noun
: shaking; ague; trembling; shivering

震う | ふるう furuu

godan verb with u ending
: to shake; to tremble; to vibrate

震え | ふるえ furue

noun
: shivering; trembling

震れる | ふれる fureru

ichidan verb | intransitive verb
: to swing; to shake; to wave
: to veer; to deflect; to lean towards

震える | ふるえる furueru

ichidan verb | intransitive verb
: to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver

震わす | ふるわす furuwasu

godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: to (make something) quiver; to shake; to tremble; to vibrate

On Reading

震 | しん shin

noun
: zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)

Read More

乾 | 干 | 幹: dry; male; to concern; capable

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning

 

乾[干] gān

adjective
: dry; dried food
: clean
: in vain
: foster; adoptive
: to ignore

乾[干] qián

noun
: one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven (sky)
: male principle
: ☰ first symbol in the I Ching: “the Creative”

干 gān

verb
: to concern; to interfere
: shield
: stem

幹 [干] gàn

verb
: tree trunk
: main part of something
: to manage; to work; to do
: capable
: cadre
: to kill (slang)
: to fuck (vulgar)

Kun Reading

乾 OR 干 | ほし hoshi

noun | noun prefix
: drying; dried

乾す OR 干す | ほす hosu

godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: to air; to dry; to desiccate
: to drain (off)
: to drink up
: to deprive of a role, job, etc. (usu. in the passive)

干る | ひる hiru

godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: to dry

乾く | かわく kawaku

godan verb with ku ending | intransitive verb
: to get dry

乾せる | かせる kaseru

ichidan verb
: to dry up; to scab; to slough
: to be poisoned (with lacquer)
: (Archaism) to waste away

幹 | みき miki OR から kara

ichidan verb
: (tree) trunk; (arrow) shaft; (tool) handle; backbone; base

On Reading

乾 | けん ken

noun
: qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)

幹 | かん kan

noun
: (tree) trunk; (arrow) shaft; (tool) handle; backbone; base

Read More

離: to depart from; from

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning, Music

 

離 [离] lí

verb | preposition
: to leave; to part from; to be away from
: (in giving distances) from
: without (something); independent of
: one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing fire; ☲

Kun Reading

離す | はなす hanasu

godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart

離れ | はなれ hanare

prefix
: detached (dwelling, room)

離れ | ばなれ banare

godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: separation from; loss of interest in; independence of; distancing (of oneself) from; disillusionment with; alienation from (something)

離れる | はなれる hanareru

ichidan verb | intransitive verb
: to be separated; to be apart; to be distant
: to leave; to go away
: to leave (a job, etc.); to quit; to give up
: to lose connection with; to drift away from

離しょう | りしょう rishou

noun
: syneresis [contraction of two vowels into a diphthong. Syneresis (chemistry), extraction or expulsion of a liquid from a gel]

On Reading

離 | り ri

noun
: li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)

Read More