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怪: odd; to blame; devil

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怪 guài

noun | adjective | verb | adverb
: bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny
: devil; monster
: to wonder at
: to blame
: quite; rather

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怪しい | あやしい ayashii

adjective
: suspicious; dubious; doubtful; dodgy; suspicious (referring to a potential amorous relation); dangerous (e.g. financial situation); ominous (e.g. weather); strange; shady; fishy
: charming; bewitching; mysterious

怪しむ | あやしむ ayashimu

adjective
: to suspect

怪しげ | あやしげ ayashige

na-adjective | noun
: questionable; doubtful; suspicious

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怪 | かい kai

noun
: mystery; wonder

ケ ke

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往: to go; previous

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往 wǎng

verb | preposition
: to go (in a direction); to; towards
: (of a train) bound for
: past; previous, formerly

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往き | いき iki OR ゆき yuki

noun suffix
: bound for …
: going (to)

往く | いく iku OR ゆく yuku

行く | いく iku OR ゆく yuku
(out-dated kanji) godan verb – iku/yuku special class | intransitive verb
: to go
: to proceed; to take place
: (Auxiliary verb) to continue

往ぬ | いぬ inu

godan verb with nu ending
: (Archaism) to go
: to pass (of time)
: to die
: to go bad; to rot
: (Kansai dialect) to go home

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オウ ou

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天: sky, day

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天 tiān

noun | measure word
: day; sky; heaven

Kun Reading

天 | あま ama

noun
: sky

天 | あめ ame

noun
: sky

天つ | あまつ amatsu

noun or verb acting prenominally
: heavenly; imperial

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天 | てん ten

noun
: sky
: heaven
: (Buddhist term) svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth)
: (Buddhist term) deva (divine being of Buddhism)

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兇: terrible | fierce

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兇 [凶] xīong

adjective
: terrible; fearful; culprit

凶 xīong

adjective
: vicious; fierce; cruel
: unlucky, ominous; inauspicious; calamitous
: famine
: variant of 兇

Kun Reading
none applicable

恐れる OR 怖れる | おそれる osoreru

ichidan verb | transitive verb
: to fear; to be afraid of

悪い | わるい warui

adjective
: bad; poor; inferior
: evil; sinful
: unprofitable
: at fault; to blame; in the wrong
: sorry

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兇 OR 凶 | きょう kyou


: bad luck; bad fortune
: evil; wickedness

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斥: to blame; to reprove

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斥 chì


: to blame
: to reprove; to reprimand
: to expel; to oust
: to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand
: saline marsh

Kun Reading

斥く | しりぞく shirizoku

godan verb with ku ending | intransitive verb
: to step back; to move back
: to leave (the presence of a superior); to withdraw; to retreat; to concede
: to resign; to retire; to quit

斥ける | しりぞける shirizokeru

ichidan verb | transitive verb
: to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject

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セキ seki

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猿: ape

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猿 yuán

noun
: ape

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猿 | さる saru

noun
: monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primateUsually written using kana alone, See also ニホンザル
: sly person (Derogatory)
: idiot; hick (Derogatory)
: sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
: clasp used to control the height of a pot-hookSee also 自在鉤
: bathhouse prostitute (Archaism)
: Monkey

猿 | ましら mashira

noun
: monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate

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エン en

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