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Level 1 Jukugo (Part 5)

1 – 猊下 – geika – your eminence

2 – 囈語 – geigo -delirious talk

3 – 黥首 – geishu – tattooing the forehead of a criminal

4 – 黥面 – geimen – face tattoo

5 – 闃寂 – gekiseki – silent and still, desolate

6 – 鴃舌 – gekizetsu – barbarian jabbering

7 – 闃然 – gekizen – quiet and still, without a sign of life

8 – 齧歯類 – gesshirui

9 – 月暈 – getsuun – lunar halo

10 – 厳格 – genkaku – stern

11 – 阮咸 – genkan – ruan (4 or 5-stringed Chinese lute)

12 – 衒学 – gengaku – display one’s learning

13 – 衒気 – genki – affectation

14 – 元寇 – genkou – Mongol invasions of Japan (1274, 1281)

15 – 眩人 – genjin – witchcraft user, magician

16 – 儼然 – genzen – grave, stern

17 – 衒耀 – genyou – false glitter

18 – 幻惑 – genwaku – entrancement

19 – 降雹 – kouhyou – hailstorm

20 – 苟安 – kouan – snatching a moment of rest

21 – 後裔 – jouei – descendant

22 – 膠化 – kouka – gelatinisation

23 – 考覈 – koukaku – considering and examining

24 – 磽确 – koukaku – stony land

25 – 広濶 – koukatsu – vastness

26 – 浩瀚 – koukan – voluminous

27 – 槓杆 – koukan – lever

28 – 慷慨 – kougai – righteous indignation

29 – 蝗害 – kougai – locust plague

30 – 睾丸 – kougan -testicles

31 – 康煕字典 – kouki jiten – Kangxi dictionary; Chinese dictionary of 1716, which popularized the system of 214 radicals​

32 – 好逑 – koukyuu – good spouse

33 – 惶遽 – koukyo – being afraid and panicked

34 – 薨去 – koukyo – death of a nobleman

35 – 咬筋 – koukin – Masseter muscle

36 – 肯綮 – koukei – the essential point

37 – 纐纈 – koukechi – style of tie-dyeing used during the Nara era

38 – 虹霓 – kougei – rainbow

39 – 皓月 – kougetsu – bright white moon

40 – 膠原質 – kougenshitsu – collagen

41 – 曠古 – kouko – unprecedented

42 – 交媾 – koukou – sexual union

43 – 煌煌 – koukou -bright

44 – 晃晃 – koukou – bright

45 – 曠曠 – koukou – bright

46 – 皓皓 – koukou – bright

47 – 恍惚 – koukotsu – ecstasy

48 – 媾合 – kougou – sexual union

49 – 香盒 – kougou – incense container

Incense Box (Kōgō) with Cartwheels Submerged in Water, 15th Century – MET

50 – 嚆矢 – koushi – whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle

Whistling Arrowhead, Chinese or Tibetan, 17th-18th Century, MET

51 – 後翅 – koushi – hindwing

52 – 口誦 – koushou – recitation

53 – 昂進 – koushin – rising

54 – 亢進 – koushin -rising

55 – 垢膩 – kouji – dirt and grease

56 – 交詢 – koujyun – promotion of sexual intercourse

57 – 扣除 – koujyo – a deduction

58 – 曠世 – kousei – unparalleled

59 – 溘然 – kouzen – unexpected

60 – 哄然 – kouzen (laugh) loudly

61 – 曠然 – kouzen – vast

62 – 皇祚 – kouso – the imperial throne

63 – 倥偬 – kousou – hurrying

64 – 鏗鏘 – kousou -resounding

65 – 狡知 – kouchi – cunning

66 – 膠着 – kouchaku – adhesion, deadlock

67 – 膠泥 – koudei – mortar

68 – 香奠 – kouden – a condolence gift

69 – 狡兎 – kouto – a smart or nimble rabbit

70 – 浩蕩 – koutou – vast

71 – 膠嚢 – kounou – capsule

72 – 伉配 – kouhai – spouse, married couple

73 – 皇妣 – kouhi – deceased Queen Mother

74 – 考妣 – kouhi – one’s late mother and father

75 – 宏謨 – koubo – great plan or policy

76 – 洪謨 – koubo – great plan or policy

77 – 光芒 – koubou – green light

78 – 広袤 – koubou – an expanse

79 – 閘門 – koumon – a lock gate (on a river)

80 – 曠野 – kouya / arano – wasteland, prairie, wilderness

81 – 膏腴 – kouyu – fertile land

82 – 滉瀁 – kouyou – wide and deep (body of water)

83 – 蛟竜 – kouryuu / kouryou – mizuchi; aquatic, dragon-like beast with four feet, horns and poisonous breath / dormant talent

Mizuchi, from the series Pictures of Birds, Animals, Insects and Fish, Keisai Eisen

84 – 黄粱 – kouryou – a form of millet

85 – 荒寥 – kouryou – desolate, bleak

86 – 伉儷 – kourei – spouse, married couple

87 – 媾和 – kouwa – reconciliation

88 – 涸渇 – kokatsu – drying up

89 – 胯間 – kokan – crotch, groin

90 – 梏桎 – kokushitsu – fetters

91 – 古訓 – kokun – ancient teachings

92 – 沽券 – koken – deed of sale, selling price

93 – 湖口 – kokou – lake inlet

94 – 瞽者 – kosha – blind person

95 – 小癪 – koshaku – impudent, cheeky

96 – 虎髭 – koshu – torahige – tiger whiskers

97 – 虎嘯 – koshou – a tiger’s howling

98 – 鼓譟 – kosou – motivating the troops on the battlefield with war drums and war cries​

99 – 火燵 – kotatsu – table over an electric heater, with a hanging quilt to retain heat (orig. over a charcoal brazier in a floor well)

100 – 炬燵 – kotatsu – table over an electric heater, with a hanging quilt to retain heat (orig. over a charcoal brazier in a floor well)

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