Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Vocabulary list

ビビリ

being easily frightened; losing one's nerve; coward; chatter (undesirable vibration in machine tools)

1

作さく戦せん会かい議ぎ

strategy meeting; council of war

1

キーマン

keyman; key person (e.g. of a company)

4

事じ情じょうを話はなす

to explain the situation

2

一いち案あん

idea; plan

4

もず

shrike (any bird of family Laniidae); bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus); butcher bird

1

サッカー

soccer; (association) football; seersucker

3

骨こっ子し

main point; gist; essentials; bones (e.g. of an idea); pith

1

ちんぷんかんぷん

unintelligible language; incoherent language; talking nonsense; babble; gibberish; jargon

2

さっくり

lightly; gently; (breaking apart) easily

2

謹きん製せい

carefully made; carefully produced; quality product; product made with care

1

十じゅう字じ

cross; cross shape; sign of the cross

1

授じゅ与よ

awarding; conferment; granting; presentation

1

ウィークポイント

weak point; weakness

1

攻こう守しゅ

offense and defense; offence and defence; batting and fielding

1

えいえいおー

hurray; hurrah

1

宿しゅく敵てき

old enemy; longtime enemy; arch-enemy; traditional rival; longstanding foe

1

痛いたい目め

painful experience

1

混こん戦せん

confused fight; free-for-all; melee; close contest; close match

1

身しん辺ぺん調ちょう査さ

(personal) background check

3

引ひき渡わたし

delivery; handing over; turning over; extradition

2

総そう員いん

the entire strength; all hands; all the members

2

幕ばく僚りょう長ちょう

chief of staff

9

息いきが掛かかる

to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

1

急きゅうピッチ

quick pace

1

腕うで利きき

highly skilled; skillful; very capable; particularly able person; master-hand; person of ability

2

運うん営えい資し金きん

operating funds

1

やりくり

making do; getting by (somehow); managing

3

８０はちじゅう万まん

800,000; eight hundred thousand

2

切きり詰つめる

to shorten; to cut short; to trim; to cut down on; to reduce; to scrimp on

2

自じ分ぶんの首くびを絞しめる

to cut one's own throat; to dig one's own grave; to cause oneself harm; to bring ruin on oneself

1

年ねん度ど末まつ

end of the fiscal year; end of the school year

1

受じゅ領りょう

receipt (of a letter, money, etc.); acceptance; receiving

1

年ねん末まつ

end-of-year; year-end

1

土ど木ぼく工こう事じ

public works

1

弁べん護ご

defense; defence; pleading; advocacy

1

解かい約やく

cancellation of a contract

1

余よ分ぶん

extra; excess; surplus

1

公こう金きん横おう領りょう

misappropriation of public funds

1

隠かくし口こう座ざ

secret bank account; secret account

1

金きん庫こ番ばん

person who holds the purse strings; person who minds the cash; safe keeper; treasurer

2

腹ふく心しん

one's confidant; trusted friend; trusted retainer

1

裏うらルート

illegal channel; back channel; black market

1

魚うお心ごころ

kindness; favor; goodwill

1

軽けいトラック

minitruck; light truck; small truck; light pickup

1

際きわ

edge; brink; verge; time; moment of

1

だもんで

thereupon; therefore; because of that

1

気き持もちを汲くむ

to consider others' feelings; to sympathize with someone's feelings

1

しゃあない

it can't be helped; so it goes; c'est la vie

1

諭ゆ旨し

official suggestion (esp. to resign from one's job); official advice; official instruction

1

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Vocabulary list: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni