The Chinese Bell Murders – Vocabulary list

真ま似ね

imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action

1

和なごやか

mild; calm; gentle; quiet; congenial; amicable

1

雰ふん囲い気き

atmosphere; mood; a certain air; presence; (Earth's) atmosphere

2

新しん参ざん

newcomer; tyro

1

異い質しつ

different (quality, nature); heterogeneous

1

たしなみ

taste (in goods, etc.); manners; etiquette; modesty; restraint; knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.)

1

不ふ一いっ致ち

discrepancy; discord; disagreement; mismatch; dissonance

2

お家うち

your home; your family; their home; (my) home

1

人にん間げん関かん係けい

human relations; personal relationships

1

がかり

taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.); similar to ...; dependent on ...; reliant on ...; while ...; when ...

1

短たん期き間かん

short term; short time

1

正ただす

to correct; to rectify; to reform; to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust

1

刺し繍しゅう

embroidery

7

淑しゅく女じょ

lady; (female) pervert

1

技ぎ芸げい

arts; crafts; handicrafts

1

手て習ならい

practice writing with a brush; study; learning

1

初しょ歩ほ

basics; rudiments; elements; ABCs of ...

1

習ならわす

to make (someone) learn; to be accustomed to ...; to be used to ...; to always ...

1

交こう際さい

company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance

1

進しん歩ぽ

progress; advance; improvement; development

2

度ど合あい

degree; extent

1

現げん状じょう

present condition; existing state; status quo; current state

2

出しゅっ費ぴ

expenses; disbursements

2

まかなう

to supply (goods, money, etc.); to cover (costs); to pay; to give board; to provide meals

1

務つとめ

service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services

2

卓たく上じょう

desktop; desk-top; tabletop; after-dinner speech

1

諸しょ費ひ

sundry expenses; various expenses

1

屈くっ曲きょく

crookedness; bending; indentation; curvature; flexion

1

心こころを奪うばう

to be thoroughly attracted by; to be completely fascinated by

1

属ぞくする

to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to

2

妓ぎ楼ろう

brothel

1

証しょう文もん

bond; deed; contract

4

持もち主ぬし

owner; proprietor; possessor (e.g. of talent, beauty, etc.)

2

難なん癖くせ

fault

1

きまり

rule; regulation; settlement; conclusion; habit; custom

1

引ひきこもる

to stay indoors; to be confined indoors

1

二に言ごん

double-dealing; double tongue; going back on what one has said; repeating oneself

1

三み言こと

three words

1

支し度たく

preparation; arrangements

1

寝ねつく

to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed

1

疎そ隔かく

alienation

1

しみじみ

keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)

1

重おも荷に

load; heavy burden; encumbrance; heavy freight; heavy responsibility

2

難なん解かい

difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

1

家か庭てい生せい活かつ

home (family, domestic) life

1

和わ合ごう

harmony; concord; agreement; unity; union

2

楽らく園えん

paradise; Eden; Elysium

1

平へい安あん

peace; tranquility; tranquillity; Heian period (794-1185)

1

ほど遠とおい

far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry

1

さいなむ

to torment; to torture; to harass

2

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Vocabulary list: The Chinese Bell Murders