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才: talent | a moment ago

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才 cái

noun | adverb
: ability; talent
: somebody of a certain type; a capable individual
: only; only then
: just now

纔 [才] cái


: a moment ago; just now
: (preceded by a clause of condition or reason) not until
: (followed by a numerical clause) only

Kun Reading

纔 | ひたた hitata

adverb
: just a tiny bit

纔か | わずか wazuka

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

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才 | さい sai

suffix
: -years-old
: ability; gift; talent; aptitude; genius

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朱: vermillion | cinnabar

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朱 zhū

noun
: vermillion

硃 [朱] zhū


: cinnabar; red mercury; mercuric sulfide HgS

Kun Reading

朱 | あけ ake

noun
: scarlet; red
: blood

朱 | あか aka

noun
: red; crimson; scarlet
: red-containing color (e.g. brown, pink, orange)
: (Colloquialism) Red (i.e. communist)
: (Abbreviation) red light
: (Abbreviation) red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red; () complete; total; perfect; obvious

朱い | あかい akai

adjective
: red
: Red (i.e. communist)

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朱 | しゅ shu

noun
: cinnabar; vermillion; red; slightly-orange red
: red pigment (and ink made from same)
: red text (as used to correct documents)

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夫: husband, man | this, that

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夫 fū

: husband, man
: manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)

夫 fú

: (classical) this, that; he, she, they
: (exclamatory final particle)
: (initial particle, introduces an opinion)

Kun Reading

夫 | つま tsuma

also 妻 qi1 | つま tsuma
noun
: wife
: (Archaism) dear (formerly used by romantically linked men and women to refer to one another)
: (Usually written using kana alone) garnish (esp. one served with sashimi)
: (Usually written using kana alone) embellishment

夫 | おっと otto

noun
: husband

夫 | それ sore

 

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フ fu
フウ fuu
ブ bu

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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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遠: far | to distance oneself from

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遠 [远] yuǎn

adjective
: far; distant; remote
: (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc)

遠 [远] yuàn

verb
: to distance oneself from (classical)

Kun Reading

遠 | とお too

no-adjective
: distant

遠い | とおい tooi

adjective
: far; distant

遠く | とおくtooku

no-adjective | adverbial noun | noun
: far away; distant; at a distance; distant place; by far

遠め | とおめ toome

noun | na-adjective
: distant; far

遠のく | とおのく toonoku

no-adjective
: to become distant; to recede

遠ざかる | とおざかる toozakaru

no-adjective
: to go far off

遠まわし | とおまわし toomawashi

noun | na-adjective
: indirect (roundabout) expression

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エン en

オン on
おち ochi

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邊: side | suffix of a noun of locality

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邊 [边] biān

noun | adverb | measure word
: side; edge; margin
: border; boundary; region
: simultaneously

邊 [边] bian


: suffix of a noun of locality

Kun Reading

辺 | へ he OR べ be

noun | suffix
: (Archaism) surrounding area
: shore (of the sea); suffix used as a rough indicator of location, direction, time, etc.

辺り | あたり atari OR ほとり hotori

zuru verb | transitive verb
: (Usually written using kana alone) on the bank of; by the side of (e.g. a river, pond)
: (in the) neighborhood; vicinity; nearby

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邊 | へん hen

family or surname
: Hen

辺 | え e

suffix
: suffix used as a rough indicator of location, direction, time, etc.

辺 | へん hen

noun
: area; vicinity
: side (of triangle, rectangle, etc.)
: circumstances

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