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60 partial word matches found in search '首相の留守中は外務大臣が代理を務める。'
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noun
prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier
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noun
1. neck
2. head
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counter for songs and poems
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noun
decapitated head of an enemy
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noun
Obito (hereditary title, often given to powerful regional families)  (see also: ; archaic)
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noun
head (of a doll)  (see also: )
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noun
head
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noun
1. eldest son  (see also: 長男; archaic)
2. older brother; older sister  (archaic)
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noun
1. office; official  (usu. 官,司,寮; archaic)
2. chief; head  (usu. 首,長)
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suffix
minister of state
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prefix
together; mutually; fellow
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noun
1. appearance; look; countenance
2. a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune  (see also: 女難の相)
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Most common form: こもごも
alternately; in succession  (often written with kana only)
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noun
1. one's nature; one's destiny
2. custom; tradition; habit
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particle
1. indicates possessive  (see also: ; occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
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noun
1. plain; field
2. hidden (structural) member  (this meaning is restricted to reading の)
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1. absence; being away from home
2. house-sitting; house-sitter
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noun
during absence from home
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Most common form: 守り
noun
1. protection; defense; defence
2. providence
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noun
director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryo system)  (see also: 国司, 長官)
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Most common form: 守り
noun
1. babysitting; babysitter
2. protecting; keeping; keeper
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noun
1. inside; in
2. among; within
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suffix
1. through; throughout; in the course of
2. all over or throughout (e.g. a place)
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noun, prefix, suffix
1. medium; average; middle  (see also: )
noun
2. moderation
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noun
red dragon tile  (see also: 紅中; mahjong term; abbreviation)
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Most common form: うち
1. inside; within
2. while  (see also: ないうちに; also 裡; often written with kana only)
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particle
1. topic marker particle  (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
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noun
tooth
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noun
leaf
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noun, noun (suffix)
clique; faction; school
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noun
1. edge (of a knife or sword)
2. prong (of an electrical plug)
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Most common form: はあ
interjection (kandoushi)
1. yes; indeed; well
2. ha!
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noun
1. outside; exterior
2. open air
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noun
foreign affairs
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suffix
outside of; not covered by  (opposite: )
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noun
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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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
cabinet minister
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noun
1. minister (of government); noble  (honorific)
2. nobleman's residence  (honorific; archaic)
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prefix
1. the large part of
2. big; large; great
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prefix
big; large  (see also: )
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prefix
1. great; grand; large  (archaic)
2. greater (of equal court ranks); upper; senior  (see also: ; also written as 正)
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prefix
1. greater (of equal court ranks); upper; senior  (see also: ; also written as 正; archaic)
2. a great deal; very much  (see also: 大いなる, 大いに)
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noun
1. retainer; attendant  (archaic)
2. Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight)  (see also: 八色の姓; this meaning is restricted to reading おみ)
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noun
1. slave  (archaic; this meaning is restricted to reading やつこ)
2. retainer; servant
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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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representation; agency; proxy; deputy; agent; attorney; substitute; alternate; acting (principal, etc.)
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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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noun
world; society; age; generation
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noun
1. reason; principle; logic
2. general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon)  (see also: ; Buddhist term)
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noun
reason; truth; way of things; justice  (see also: 道理)
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particle
1. indicates direct object of action
2. indicates subject of causative expression
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ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (in)  (usu. 勤める)
2. to serve (as); to act (as); to fill (the position of); to play the role (of)  (usu. 務める)
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noun
1. service; duty; business; responsibility; task
2. Buddhist religious services
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Most common form: めっ
interjection (kandoushi)
no!; don't!; tsk!; used to scold small children and pets
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noun
1. eye; eyeball
2. eyesight; sight; vision  (see also: 目が見える)
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noun
sprout
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