My words

性犯罪

せいはんざい

sex crime Sex Offenses

合羽

カッパ かっぱ

raincoat, kappa, pluvial

真っ新

まっさら

brand new

慣用句

かんようく

idiomatic usage, common usage

お八つ

おやつ

between-meal snack mid-afternoon (around 3 oclock) snack, afternoon refreshment, afternoon tea

焼き菓子

やきがし

baked sweets

たった今

たったいま

just now, a moment ago, this very minute

にっこり

smile sweetly, smile, grin

貧しい

まずしい

poor, needy lacking (quantity and quality-wise), poor, scanty, skimpy, slight, inadequate

養鶏

ようけい

poultry raising, poultry farming, chicken farming

矜持

きょうじ きんじ

pride, dignity, self-respect

盛り合わせ

もりあわせ

combination platter

割る

わる

to divide, to cut, to break, to halve, to separate, to split, to rip, to crack, to smash, to dilute divide

お中元

おちゅうげん

Bon Festival gifts

お歳暮

おせいぼ

end of the year, year-end gift

猪

い

hog (esp. a wild boar, but also including the domesticated pig)

奨学金

しょうがくきん

scholarship, stipend, bursary student loan fellowships and schol-arships

蒸れる

むれる

to be stuffy, to moulder, to molder

お取り寄せ

O toriyose

Back order

展示品

てんじひん

goods on display, (an) exhibit, exhibition (of goods)

組み上げる

くみあげる

to compose, to put together

組み立てる

くみたてる

to assemble, to set up, to construct

草の根運動

くさのねうんどう

grass-roots movement

実用性

Jitsuyō-sei

practicality

見なす

みなす

to consider as, to regard (as equivalent), to deem (as), to equate

景気

けいき

condition, state, business (condition) condition, state, business (condition) business cycle business

憧れ

あこがれ

yearning, longing, aspiration

誇り

ほこり

pride, boast

親日

しんにち

pro-Japanese

反日

はんにち

anti-Japanese