| 近く | [ちかく, chikaku] (n-adv, n) (1) (See 近い) near; neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; (n-suf) (2) nearly (i.e. "it took nearly one year"); close to; (adv) (3) shortly; soon; (P) #1,839 [Add to Longdo] |
| 遠く | [とおく, tooku] (adj-no, n-adv, n) far away; distant; at a distance; distant place; by far; (P) #7,514 [Add to Longdo] |
| 筈(P);弭 | [はず, hazu] (n) (1) (uk) expectation that something took place, will take place or was in some state; it should be so; bound to be; expected to be; must be; (2) nock (of a bow); (3) nock (of an arrow); (4) (See はず押し・はずおし) nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger) (Sumo); (5) wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out; (P) #14,425 [Add to Longdo] |
| ニカの乱 | [ニカのらん, nika noran] (n) the Nika riots which took place in 532 in Constantinople [Add to Longdo] |
| 遠からず | [とおからず, tookarazu] (adv) soon; in the near future [Add to Longdo] |
| 遠きは花の香近きは糞の香 | [とおきははなのかちかきはくそのか, tookihahananokachikakihakusonoka] (exp) it's human nature to consider things that are afar as beautiful and things that are up close as unsightly [Add to Longdo] |
| 遠くから | [とおくから, tookukara] (exp) from a distance [Add to Longdo] |
| 遠くに霞む | [とおくにかすむ, tookunikasumu] (exp, v5m) to loom in the distance [Add to Longdo] |
| 遠くの親類より近くの他人 | [とおくのしんるいよりちかくのたにん, tookunoshinruiyorichikakunotanin] (exp) (id) A neighbour is better than a relative living far [Add to Longdo] |
| 遠く及ばない | [とおくおよばない, tookuoyobanai] (adj-i) falling far short of; no equal (match) for [Add to Longdo] |
| 遠く離れて | [とおくはなれて, tookuhanarete] (n) at a long distance [Add to Longdo] |
| 気が遠くなる | [きがとおくなる, kigatookunaru] (exp, v5r) (1) to faint; to lose consciousness; (2) to feel overwhelmed; to be astounded [Add to Longdo] |
| 近からず遠からず | [ちかからずとおからず, chikakarazutookarazu] (exp) neither near nor far [Add to Longdo] |
| 五公五民 | [ごこうごみん, gokougomin] (n) (arch) land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half [Add to Longdo] |
| 四公六民 | [しこうろくみん, shikourokumin] (n) (arch) land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% [Add to Longdo] |
| 七公三民 | [しちこうさんみん, shichikousanmin] (n) land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent [Add to Longdo] |
| 十月十日 | [とつきとおか, totsukitooka] (n) (1) babies born on October 10, supposedly conceived on New Year's Day; (2) normal gestation time (i.e. 9 months) [Add to Longdo] |
| 十日(P);１０日(P) | [とおか, tooka] (n) (1) the tenth day of the month; (2) ten days; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
| 十日の菊 | [とおかのきく, tookanokiku] (exp) (See 重陽) something that comes too late and is useless; like a chrysanthemum prepared for the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar for the Chrysanthemum festival but that blooms only on the tenth [Add to Longdo] |
| 十日夜 | [とおかんや;とおかや, tookanya ; tookaya] (n) Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest) [Add to Longdo] |
| 赤赤と起こった火 | [あかあかとおこったひ, akaakatookottahi] (exp) blazing fire [Add to Longdo] |
| 中らずと雖も遠からず;中らずといえども遠からず | [あたらずといえどもとおからず, atarazutoiedomotookarazu] (exp) good guess; close or accurate guess [Add to Longdo] |
| 冬来たりなば春遠からじ | [ふゆきたりなばはるとおからじ, fuyukitarinabaharutookaraji] (exp) If Winter comes can Spring be far behind? [Add to Longdo] |
| 当たらずといえども遠からず | [あたらずといえどもとおからず, atarazutoiedomotookarazu] (exp) not exactly correct, but pretty close to it; not far off the mark [Add to Longdo] |
| 当たらずとも遠からず | [あたらずともとおからず, atarazutomotookarazu] (exp) near the mark; pretty close; not a bad guess [Add to Longdo] |
| 二百十日 | [にひゃくとおか, nihyakutooka] (n) 210th day (from the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar); the storm day; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
