Definition of ことうかい
- (n) cormorant
- (n) the feelings of the people
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(n) shell; shellfish
私が手にしてるのは貝の化石です。
What I have in my hand is a fossil seashell.
- (n) koto (13-stringed Japanese zither)
- stringed instrument
- zheng (Chinese zither); guzheng
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(n) ancient city; former capital
この古都に何か新しいものがあることは、だれでも知っている。
Everyone knows that there is something new in this old capital.
- (n) thing; matter
- incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
- circumstances; situation; state of affairs
- work; business; affair
- after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
- (n-suf) nominalizing suffix
- pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...
- (n) fourth sign of Chinese zodiac (The Hare, 5am-7am, east, February)
- (n) paddle; oar; scull
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(n) buying; shopping
安物買いの銭失い。
Buy cheap and waste your money. - buyer
- purchase
- (n) mystery; wonder
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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.
- (n-suf) revision
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(n) solution (of equation)
彼が何をするか解からない。
There is no telling what he will do.
- (ctr) counter for buildings, etc.
- (n) fifth degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale)
- (prt) particle indicating a command
- particle indicating mild enthusiasm
- particle indicating a gentle interrogative
- particle used to soften a judgment or conclusion
- (n) pleasure; delight; enjoyment
- (n) gorge; ravine
- (n) bad physician; bad doctor
