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):
- 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)
- to admit; to accept; to employ; to hire
- to accept; to comply; to grant; to adopt (a policy, etc.); to take (advice, etc.); to listen to; to pay attention to
- to include
- to pay (one’s rent, etc.)
- to cast (a vote)
- to make (tea, coffee, etc.)
- to turn on (a switch, etc.)
- 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)
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
真ん中(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曲ぐらいリストアップした中から、曲順を決めていった感じかな。
Because I was in the middle of listing roughly thirty songs, I felt that I was choosing the order in which to play them.
決: 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.)