Definition of げんりし
- (n) Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa)
- yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata)
- printing block
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(pref) original; primitive; primary; fundamental; raw
私達がよく野球をして遊んだ原は今すっかり家が建て込んでしまった。
The field where we used to play ball is now all built up.
- (n) official; civil service
- (n) calling card
- (n) advantage; benefit; profit; interest
- (n) an official
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(n) ri (old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles)
100里を行く者は99里を半ばとする。
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. - neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes)
- unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
- (n) poem; verse of poetry
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(n) word; remark; statement
彼の言に従って行動するのはりこうではない。
It is not wise to go by his word.
- (suf) source; origin
- (n) string (of a shamisen, etc.)
- stringed instrument
- (pref) present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing
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(suf) reduction
この数字は原油輸入減を反映している。
This figure is a mirror of the decrease in imports of crude oil.
- (num) four (used in legal documents)
- (ctr) counter for long, thin things (i.e. swords)
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(suf) history (e.g. of some country)
彼は、フランス史の学者だ。
He is a scholar of French history.
- (n) thread
- one ten-thousandth; 0.001 percent (one-ten-thousandth of a wari)
- (n) that
- you
- oneself; themself
- (n) li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
- (n) office (government department beneath a bureau under the ritsuryo system)
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(suf) honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status
姉は私のズボンにアイロンをかけてくれる。
My sister presses my trousers.
- (n) zhi (large bowl-shaped ancient Chinese cup with two handles)
- (pref) to ...
- (n) words; writing; lyrics
- ci (form of Chinese poetry)
- independent word
- (n) 10**24; septillion (American); quadrillion (British)
- (n) effect; efficacy
- omen
- (n) private affairs; personal matter