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52 partial word matches found in search '古代の天文学者は、星座を見つけ、名前をつけた。'

'na' adjective, adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)

ancient times

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noun

antiquity; ancient times

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noun

1. used item; secondhand item (see also: 御古)

noun (prefix)

2. old; used; previous

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noun, noun (suffix)

1. charge; cost; price

2. generation; age; reign (see also: 台・だい)

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noun

1. substitution

2. material

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Most common form: 世

noun

world; society; age; generation

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の

particle

1. indicates possessive (see also: 乃; occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)

2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives

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の

Most common form: 野

noun

1. plain; field

2. hidden (structural) member (this meaning is restricted to reading の)

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noun

1. sky

2. heaven (this meaning is restricted to reading てん)

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noun

astronomy

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てんもんがく

noun

astronomy

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noun, 'no' adjective

Tembun era (1532.7.29-1555.10.23)

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てんもんがくしゃ

noun

astronomer

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noun

literature

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noun

1. sentence

2. composition; text; writings

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noun

letter; writings

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ぶんがくしゃ

noun

1. scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters

2. writer

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noun

1. one-thousandth of a kan (obsolete unit of currency)

2. 2.4 cm (traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes)

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noun

1. figure; design (often written with kana only)

2. twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes

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noun, 'no' adjective

scholar

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suffix

1. -ology; -ics; study of ...

noun

2. learning; scholarship; erudition; knowledge

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Most common form: もの

noun

person (rarely used without a qualifier)

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noun, suffix

someone of that nature; someone doing that work

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は

particle

1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)

2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)

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は

Most common form: 歯

noun

tooth

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は

Most common form: 葉

noun

leaf

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は

Most common form: 派

noun, noun (suffix)

clique; faction; school

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は

Most common form: 刃

noun

1. edge (of a knife or sword)

2. prong (of an electrical plug)

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は

Most common form: はあ

interjection (kandoushi)

1. yes; indeed; well

2. ha!

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noun

1. star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)

2. offender; perpetrator (esp. ホシ; slang)

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noun, 'no' adjective

constellation; star sign; zodiac sign

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noun

1. Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 星宿, 二十八宿, 朱雀; astronomy, etc. term)

noun, noun (suffix), noun (prefix)

2. Singapore

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noun, noun (suffix)

1. seat; place; position

2. status

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を

particle

1. indicates direct object of action

2. indicates subject of causative expression

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noun (suffix), noun

looking; viewing

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noun

view (of life, etc.); outlook

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つ

counter for the hito-futa-mi counting system (forming hitotsu, futatsu, mittsu etc.) (often written with kana only)

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つけ

noun

1. bill; bill of sale; payment invoice

2. tab (for later payment); credit

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つ

conjunction

1. indicates two contrasting actions (see also: 浮きつ沈みつ, 追いつ追われつ; form: ...つ...つ)

particle

2. indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words) (archaic)

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け

Most common form: っけ

particle

particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information

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け

Most common form: 毛

noun

1. hair

2. fur; wool

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け

Most common form: 家

suffix

house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family

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noun

1. name; full name (see also: 名字, 姓)

2. given name; first name

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noun

1. name; given name

2. title

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1. counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such) (honorific)

noun

2. first name

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noun

1. in front (of); before (e.g. a building)

noun, 'no' adjective, adverb

2. before; earlier; previously; prior; ago; (minutes) to (the hour)

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noun (prefix)

1. the last (i.e. immediately preceding) (e.g. "the last mayor"); previous; one-time; former

2. pre- (e.g. "premodern") (before the name of an era)

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noun, 'no' adjective, noun (suffix), prefix

1. previous; prior; former; first; earlier; some time ago; preceding

2. point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle

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けた

noun

1. column; beam; girder; crossbeam; spar; yard

2. digit; decade; order of magnitude

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た

auxiliary verb

1. indicate past completed or action (see also: だ; だ after certain verb forms)

2. indicates light imperative (see also: だ)

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た

Most common form: 他

adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun, 'no' adjective

other (esp. people and abstract matters)

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た

Most common form: 多

noun, prefix

multi-

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Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.

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