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meaning of a word

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bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink

2

bay; gulf; inlet

2

tableware

1

hair; fur; wool; down; plumage

2

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

2

cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

27

travel; trip; journey

11

any beech tree of genus Castanopsis; chinquapin; chinkapin

1

old poem (esp. waka); old song

2

home (family, domestic) life

1

everyday life; daily life

1

Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)

3

Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)

2

Gifu prefecture (Chūbu area)

2

tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery

32

earthenware

2

ridge of earth between rice fields; ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel; footpath between rice fields; causeway

3

to sit (down)

1

kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour

6

rice ball

6

ending; conclusion; join; union; knot; knotting

4

at times; occasionally

4

discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude

1

error; mistake; slip; bug

2

opposite side; other side; over there; that way; the other party; the other person

1

sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)

1

to hear; to imbibe; to drink

1

to eat; to drink

1

gift; boon; (good) result; fruit (e.g. of one's efforts)

1

wicked person; evil person; scoundrel; bad thing; mischief

1

relativity; relative

1

empty air; sky; shunyata; emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness

1

rudeness; impoliteness; leaving; going (on one's way); taking without permission; stealing

1

superior; superiors; senior

2

waiting on a table; serving (at dinner); waiter; waitress; office boy; office girl

2

open air; outdoors; outside

1

the Horse (seventh sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Horse (around noon, 11am-1pm, or 12 noon-2pm); south; fifth month of the lunar calendar

1

five colors (usu. red, blue, yellow, white and black); five colours; many kinds; varied; melon; gourd

1

lunch; dinner

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miscalculation

1

to fit; to suit

2

dinner; evening meal

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morning sun

1

evening sun; setting sun

1

sunrise

2

sunset

1

approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

1

to start forgetting

1

constitution (physical); physical make-up; predisposition (to disease); character (of a group, organization, etc.); innate characteristics; make-up

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