Australia and the World Past and Present

1 – 頽廃 – taihai – moral decay

2 – 大辟 – taiheki – severe punishment, death penalty

3 – 瑇瑁 – taimai – hawksbill turtle

4 – 頽齢 – tairei – declining years

5 – 磔刑 – takukei / takkei – crucifixion

6 – 謫所 – takusho – exile for a crime

7 – 譚歌 – tanka – ballad

8 – 啖呵 – tanka – caustic words, defiant words

9 – 赧顔 – tangan – flushed face

10 – 端倪 – tangei – conjecture

11 – 澹月 – tangetsu – hazy moon

12 – 澹然 – tanzen – quiet

13 – 赧然 – tanzen – blushing

14 – 耽溺 – tandeki – indulgence (in alcohol, women, etc.); debauchery

15 – 澹泊 – tanpaku – light colour, frank, indifference

16 – 貪婪 – tanran / donran – greed

17 – 題簽 – daisen – slip of paper bearing a book’s title (pasted inside the book)

18 – 大篆 – daiten – large seal script (dating from China’s Spring and Autumn period onward)

19 – 兌換 – dakan – conversion (of paper money, esp. into specie)

20 – 打毬 – dakyū, polo-like game

21 – 懦弱 – dajyaku – weak, effeminate

22 – 脱肛 – dakkou – anal prolapse

23 – 獺祭 – dassai – arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry, literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc., otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank, people making offerings (especially of fish)

24 – 韃靼 – dattan – Tartary (various tribes that historically inhabited the area north of China)

25 – 荼毘 – dabi – cremation

26 – 懦夫 – dafu – a coward

27 – 弾指 – danshi – snapping the fingers (to indicate consent, joy, a warning, etc.)​, an instant, criticism

28 – 断截 – dansetsu – cutting off, severing

29 – 緞通 – dantsuu – carpet, rug

30 – 竹帛 – chikuhaku – history

31 – 笞刑 – chikei – flogging

32 – 褫奪 – chidatsu – stripping (of clothes, office, etc.), deprivation​

33 – 蟄居 – chikkyo – shutting oneself up in one’s house, staying indoors, living in seclusion​, house arrest (Edo-period punishment)

34 – 蟄伏 – chippuku – hibernation; staying home or in place

35 – 魑魅 – chimi – mountain demon

36 – 茶筌 – chasen – tea whisk / hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

37 – 誅求 – chuukyuu – oppressive exaction (of taxes)

38 – 駐箚 – chuusatsu – residing abroad (a diplomat)

39 – 誅殺 – chuusatsu – execution of a criminal

40 – 籀書 – chuusho – large seal script (dating from China’s Spring and Autumn period onward)

41 – 抽籤 – chuusen – lottery, raffle, drawing of lots

​42 – 躊躇 – chuucho – hesitation

43 – 偸盗 – chuutou – robber, theft

44 – 誅伐 – chuubatsu – assailing criminals

45 – 綢繆 – chuubyuu – entwined, harmonious

46 – 籀文 – chuubun – large seal script (dating from China’s Spring and Autumn period onward)​

47 – 綢密 – chuumitsu – dense, crowded

48 – 誅戮 – chuuriku – putting a criminal to death

49 – 儲位 – choi – heirship

50 – 鳥瞰 – choukan – having a bird’s-eye view

51 – 長跪 – chouki – way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright​

52 – 肇国 – choukoku – founding of a state

53 – 彫刻 – choukoku – carving, sculpture

54 – 悵然 – chouzen – sad

55 – 彫琢 – choutaku – carving and polishing

56 – 打擲 – chouchaku – thrashing, beating

57 – 糶糴 – chouteki – buying and selling of grain

58 – 掉尾 – choubi – final effort, end

59 – 超邁 – choumai – excellence

60 – 直截 – chokusetsu – frank

61 – 佇立 – choritsu / choryuu – standing still

62 – 瀦溜 – choryuu – storage (of water), sequestration (of carbon dioxide)

63 – 陳套 – chintou – clichéd

64 – 沈淪 – chinrin – sinking into obscurity, coming down in the world, being ruined, sinking deeply

65 – 追蹤 – tsuishou – chase, tracking, stalking

66 – 彽徊 – teikai – pacing back and forth meditatively, going about deep in thought

67 – 啼泣 – teikyuu – bawling

68 – 帝闕 – teiketsu – imperial palace (gate)

69 – 提挈 – teiketsu – cooperation

70 – 牴牾 – teigo – disagreement, discrepancy

71 – 睇視 – teishi – squinting, looking closely

72 – 抵触 – teishoku – infringement (of a law, treaty, etc.)

73 – 啼鳥 – teichou – chirping bird

74 – 叮嚀 – teinei – polite

75 – 停泊 – teihaku – anchorage, mooring

76 – 羝羊 – teiyou – ram, someone who lives their life by instinct

77 – 庭燎 – teiryou – garden bonfire (especially one held on imperial grounds)​

78 – 敵愾心 – tekigaishin – hostility

79 – 剔出 – tekishutsu – surgical removal

80 – 躑躅 – tekichoku – hesitation

81 – 倜儻 – tekitou – being exceedingly wiser than the common man

82 – 覿面 – tekimen -immediate effect

83 – 摘蕾 – tekirai – removing extra buds (to promote the growth of those remaining)

84 – 剔抉 – tekketsu – gouging out, exposing (a scandal, fraud, etc.)​

85 – 癲癇 – tenkan – epilepsy

86 – 癲狂 – tenkyou – madness, insanity

87 – 顚蹶 – tenketsu – tripping, failure

88 – 篆刻 – tenkoku – seal engraving

89 – 篆書 – tensho – seal script

90 – 纏繞 – tenjyou – entangling

91 – 点睛 – tensei – adding eyes and other finishing touches to an animal painting

92 – 恬然 – tenzen – indifferent, calm

93 – 恬澹 – tentan – indifferent, detached

94 – 恬惔 – tentan – indifferent, detached

95 – 天誅 – tenchuu – divine punishment

96 – 輾転 – tenten – tossing and turning

97 – 奠都 – tento – transferring the capital

98 – 纏頭 – tentou – a tip

99 – 天稟 – tenpin – natural talents

100 – 殄滅 – tenmetsu – complete and utter annihilation