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72 partial word matches found in search '電話が鳴ったとき、ちょうど外出していた。'
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1. telephone call; phone call
2. telephone (device); phone  (see also: 電話機; abbreviation)
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Most common form: 稲妻
Word containing out-dated kanji or kanji usage
noun
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
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Most common form: 話し
noun
1. talk; speech; chat; story; conversation
2. discussions; negotiation; argument
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counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
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particle
1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
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noun
moth
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auxiliary verb
1. indicate past completed or action  (see also: ; だ after certain verb forms)
2. indicates light imperative  (see also: )
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adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun, 'no' adjective
other (esp. people and abstract matters)
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noun, prefix
multi-
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particle, conjunction
1. if; when
2. and
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noun
regular (stops at every station) Jouetsu-line Shinkansen
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noun
1. time; hour; moment  (刻 signifies a time of day, 秋 signifies an important time)
noun, adverb
2. occasion; case
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noun
1. door (esp. Japanese-style)  (see also: )
2. shutter; window shutter
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noun
way
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noun
1. to (measure of volume, approx. 18 litres)  (obsolete term)
2. square bearing block (at the top of a pillar)  (see also: 枡形)
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noun
1. spirit; mind; heart  (see also: 気を逸らす)
2. nature; disposition  (see also: 気が小さい)
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yellow
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noun, noun (suffix)
1. account; history; chronicle; annals; record  (also written 紀)
noun
2. Records of Ancient Matters  (see also: 古事記; abbreviation)
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noun, noun (suffix)
1. period; time
2. age  (geology, etc. term)
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1. exactly; precisely; just; right  (often written with kana only)
2. as if; as though; quite  (often written with kana only)
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supplies; furniture; fixtures
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suffix
person who is ...; thing that is ...  (after a noun or the root of an adjective)
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just a minute; short time; just a little  (equiv. of ちょっと; regional dialect: Kansai-ben)
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noun
blood; consanguinity
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noun, noun (suffix)
1. earth; ground; land; soil
2. place
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noun, noun (suffix)
government office; agency; board
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numeric
1. 10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion
noun
2. sign; omen; indication; portent  (see also: 兆し)
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noun
guts; bowels; intestines
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noun
butterfly
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noun, noun (suffix), prefix
1. super-; ultra-; hyper-; very; really
noun, noun (suffix)
2. over (after a number or counter); more than
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noun
1. head; chief; leader; elder
2. merit; strong point  (see also: )
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noun
1. work; book
suffix
2. (a book) by
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counter
counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.
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auxiliary verb
1. indicates speculation  (after the imperfective form of certain verbs and adjectives)
2. indicates will
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noun
udo (plant related to ginseng, used in medicine and cooking) (Aralia cordata)  (often written with kana only)
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noun
cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)
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but (archaic)
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noun, noun (suffix)
1. degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.)
counter
2. counter for occurrences and times
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Most common form:
prefix
1. precisely; exactly; plumb; totally; very much  (occ. written 度 (ateji))
2. damn; stupid; cursed
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noun
1. outside; exterior
2. open air
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outing; trip; going out
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suffix
outside of; not covered by  (opposite: )
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noun
extravaginal ejaculation  (see also: 中出し)
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1. other (place, thing, person); the rest
2. outside; beyond  (esp. 外; often written with kana only)
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1. another place; somewhere else; strange parts  (see also: 他所; often written with kana only)
noun
2. outside (one's family or group); those people  (often written with kana only; opposite: )
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noun, noun (suffix)
1. coming out; going out; outflow; efflux; rising (of the sun or moon)
2. attending (work); appearing (on stage); one's turn to go on
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noun
1. coming out; emerging
2. being born into (a certain family); being a native of (a particular place)
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Most common form: だし
noun
1. dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)  (often written with kana only)
2. pretext; excuse; pretense (pretence); dupe; front man  (this meaning is restricted to form 出し)
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particle, conjunction
(at the end of a phrase) notes one (of several) reasons
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noun
1. doer; performer
2. protagonist (in noh or kyogen); hero; leading part; main character  (often written with kana only)
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noun
private residence  (see also: 官邸)
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particle
1. by (indicating means of action); as (a group, etc.)  (see also: からして, として, にして, 為る)
2. indicates patient of a causative expression  (as 〜をして in modern Japanese)
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numeric
four  (肆 is used in legal documents)
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Most common form: 指定
designation; specification; assignment; appointment; pointing at
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noun, noun (suffix)
1. death; decease
2. death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation)  (see also: 五刑; archaic)
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noun
poem; verse of poetry
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Most common form: 子弟
noun
young(er) people; children
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noun, noun (suffix)
city
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noun (suffix), noun
history
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Most common form:
noun (suffix), counter
magazine  (see also: 雑誌; abbreviation)
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noun
official; civil service
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noun
teacher and student
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auxiliary
indicates continuing action  (see also: ; で after certain verb forms)
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noun
1. hand; arm  (see also: お手; occ. pronounced た when a prefix)
2. forepaw; foreleg  (see also: お手; colloquialism)
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Most common form: って
particle
1. casual quoting particle  (see also: ; abbr. for と, というのは and other similar combinations)
2. indicates supposition; if ... then
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particle
strengthens a question, assertion, etc.  (see also: かい, ぞい, だい, わい; familiar language)
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noun
1. board; plank
2. sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); pane; slab
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noun
1. stomach
2. Chinese "stomach" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)  (see also: 胃宿, 白虎; astronomy, etc. term)
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noun
well
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noun, noun (suffix)
medicine; the healing art; healing; curing; doctor
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greatness
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counter
1. rank; place (e.g. first place)
2. decimal place
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