My words

空

そら から くう

shunya (emptiness, the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phemomenon) air force fruitlessness, meaninglessness void (one of the five elements) all things are tentative figures created by fate, and there are no permanent entities or ego.

少ない

すくない

few, a little, scarce, insufficient, seldom

銀行

ぎんこう

bank

番号

ばんごう

number, series of digits

肉

にく しし

flesh meat the physical body (as opposed to the spirit) thickness ink pad

皆さん

みなさん みんなさん

all, everyone, everybody

村

むら

village

電車

でんしゃ

train, electric train

食べる

たべる

to eat to live on (e.g. a salary), to live off, to subsist on

四日

よっか

fourth day of month four days

聞く

きく

to hear to listen (e.g. to music) to ask, to enquire, to query to learn of, to hear about to follow (advice), to comply with to smell (esp. incense), to sample fragrance

有名

ゆうめい

famous fame

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, to listen to, to pay attention to to include to pay (ones rent, etc.) to cast (a vote) to make (tea, coffee, etc.) to turn on (a switch, etc.) to send (a fax), to call

外国

がいこく

foreign country

半

はん

half, semi- half-past odd number unit of land area (595.8 m^2)

左

さ ひだり

left, left hand side

北

きた

north the North, northern territories North Korea north wind

雨

あめ

rain

外国人

がいこくじん

foreigner, foreign citizen, foreign national, alien, non-Japanese

箱

はこ ハコ

box, case, chest, package, pack car (of a train, etc.) shamisen case, shamisen public building, community building man who carries a geishas shamisen receptacle for human waste, feces (faeces) counter for boxes (or boxed objects)

若い

わかい

young, youthful immature, green low (number), small

赤

あか

red, crimson, scarlet red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange) Red (i.e. communist) red light red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading), (in) the red complete, total, perfect, obvious copper

読む

よむ

to read to count to guess, to predict, to read (someones thoughts), to see (e.g. into someones heart), to divine

新聞

しんぶん

newspaper newspapers

南

みなみ

south

耳

みみ

ear hearing edge, crust selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics), selvage

妹

いも いもうと

younger sister

五日

いつか

the fifth day of the month five days

飲む

のむ

to drink, to gulp, to swallow, to take (medicine) to smoke (tobacco) to engulf, to overwhelm to keep down, to suppress to accept (e.g. demand, condition) to make light of, to conceal

旅行

りょこう

travel, trip travel