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Usu. (mortar) Making mochi in an usu. The timing is important to avoid injury. An usu ( Japanese: [ɯꜜsɯ], Japanese: 臼) [1] is a large Japanese stamp mill with a pestle called kine ( [kiꜜne], Japanese: 杵 ), used to pound rice or millet . While the function of an usu is similar to the smaller suribachi and surikogi mortars, the shape is ...
Shin Meikai kokugo jiten. The Shin meikai kokugo jiten (新明解国語辞典, "New clear-understanding Japanese dictionary"), commonly called the Shinmeikai or affectionately the Shinkai-san (新解さん, "Mr/Ms Shinkai", with the personal suffix -san さん), is a popular Japanese dictionary published by Sanseidō. They also publish the ...
Mitra ( Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mitrás) is the name of an Indo-Iranian divinity that predates the Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra . The names, and some characteristics, of these established deities subsequently influenced other figures: Maitreya, a vrddhi-derived form of Sanskrit mitra, a bodhisattva in Buddhist tradition.
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten. The Nihon kokugo daijiten (日本国語大辞典), often abbreviated as the Nikkoku (日国) and sometimes known in English as Shogakukan 's Japanese Dictionary, is the largest Japanese language dictionary published. [1] In the period from 1972 to 1976, Shogakukan published the 20-volume first edition.
Many Japanese words of Portuguese origin entered the Japanese language when Portuguese Jesuit priests and traders introduced Christian ideas, Western science, technology and new products to the Japanese during the Muromachi period (15th and 16th centuries). The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Japan and the first to establish direct ...
Japanese dictionary. Japanese dictionaries ( Japanese: 国語辞典, Hepburn: Kokugo jiten) have a history that began over 1300 years ago when Japanese Buddhist priests, who wanted to understand Chinese sutras, adapted Chinese character dictionaries. Present-day Japanese lexicographers are exploring computerized editing and electronic dictionaries.
Nintendo posted a net profit of 80.9 billion Japanese Yen, which is higher than its forecast but over 50 percent lower than its net profit for the same period last fiscal year.
The result, for a person reading modern Japanese, is that Daijirin is the most likely to list the intended meaning where it can be found easily. The other two Daijirin advantages are semantically "more detailed" definitions and the "unusual, though not unprecedented" kanji and reverse-dictionary index. Baroni and Bialock describe Daijirin,