Vocabulary and kanji for all your Japanese learning interests. Mostly intermediate level, as I am still learning, though beginners could find useful things here too! Feel free to ask any Japanese language questions. :]

思い入れ(おもいいれ): 1. emotional attachment 2. attitude (expressing emotion); meditative post (e.g. an actor); posing for effect

思: already covered here.


入: enter; insert

on-reading ジュ、ニュウ. kun-reading いり、いる、いれ、いれる、はいる.

入り(いり): 1. entering 2. setting (of the sun) 3. containing; content; audience 4. income 5. beginning

入る(いる): to get in; to go in; to come in; to flow into; to set; to set in

入れ(いれ): container; receptacle

入れる(いれる):
  1. to put in; to let in; to take in; to bring in; to insert; to set (a jewel, etc.); to ink in (e.g. a tattoo)
  2. to admit; to accept; to employ; to hire
  3. to accept; to comply; to grant; to adopt (a policy, etc.); to take (advice, etc.); to listen to; to pay attention to
  4. to include
  5. to pay (one’s rent, etc.)
  6. to cast (a vote)
  7. to make (tea, coffee, etc.)
  8. to turn on (a switch, etc.)
  9. to send (a fax); to call

入る(はいる): 1. to enter 2. to break into 3. to join; to enroll 4. to contain; to hold; to accommodate 5. to have (an income of)

せめぎ合い(せめぎあい): conflict; fighting each other

合: already covered here.

基本的(きほんてき): fundamental; standard; basic

基: counter for machines; foundation; fundamentals; radical (chemistry)

on-reading キ. kun-reading もと、もとい.

基(き): 1. group (chemistry term) 2. (free) radical 3. counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones)

基(もと): 1. origin; source 2. base; basis; foundation; root 3. cause 4. ingredient; material 5. original cost (or capital, principal, etc.) 6. (plant) root; (tree) trunk 7. first section of a waka 8. handle (chopsticks, brush, etc.); grip

  • note: more commonly uses the 元 or 本 kanji.

基(もとい): 1. base; foundation (archaism) 2. cause


本: already covered here.


的: already covered here.

歌詞(かし): song lyrics; words of a song; libretto

歌: sing; song

on-reading カ. kun-reading うた、うたう.

歌(うた): 1. song 2. classical Japanese poetry (esp. tanka) 3. modern poetry

歌う(うたう): 1. to sing 2. to sing (one’s praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite apoem


詞: part of speech; poetry; words

on-reading シ. no kun-reading.

詞(し): 1. words; writing; lyrics 2. ci (form of Chinese poetry) 3. independent word

勇気づける(ゆうきずける): to encourage; to cheer

勇: already covered here.


気: already covered here.

折衷案(せっちゅうあん): compromise proposal

折: already covered here.


衷: heart; inmost; inside; mind

on-reading チュウ. no kun-reading.


案: already covered here.

真ん(まんなか): middle; center; mid-way

真: Buddhist sect; reality; true

on-reading シン. kun-reading ま.

真(しん): 1. truth; reality; genuineness 2. seriousness 3. printed style writing 4. star performer (abbreviation)

真(ま): just; right; due (east); pure; genuine; true


中: already covered here.

並び(ならび): line; row; rank; list

並:and; as well as; besides; equal; line up; rank with; rival; row

on-reading ヘイ、ホウ. kun-reading なみ、ならびに、ならぶ、ならべる.

並(なみ): 1. average; medium; common; ordinary 2. line; row of (e.g. houses) 3. mid-grade 4. same level; equal; each (e.g. month); set of (e.g. teeth)

並びに(ならびに): and (also); both … and; as well as

並ぶ(ならぶ): 1. to line up; to stand in a line 2. to rival; to match; to equal

並べる(ならべる): 1. to line up; to set up 2. to enumerate; to itemize

ざっと30ぐらいリストアップした中から、曲順を決めていったじかな。

Because I was in the middle of listing roughly thirty songs, I felt that I was choosing the order in which to play them.

: agree upon; appoint; decide; fix

on-reading ケツ. kun-reading きまる、きめる.

決まる(きまる): 1. to be decided; to be settled 2. to look good in (clothes)

決める(きめる): 1. to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one’s mind; to resolve; to set one’s heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix 2. to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match) 3. to persist in doing; to go through with 4. to always do; to have made a habit of 5. to take for granted; to assume 6. to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines 7. to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing 8. to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.)

曲順(きょくじゅん): order in which songs, etc. are played

曲: already covered here.


順: docility; obey; occasion; order; right; turn

on-reading ジュン. no kun-reading.

順(じゅん): 1. order; turn 2. obedient; docile; submissive; meek

順に(じゅんに): in order; in turn; one by one