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Level 1 Jukugo (Part 7)

1 – 執拗 – shitsuou / shitsuyou – persistent

2 – 祠堂 – shidou – lay ancestral hall, hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners​

3 – 屎尿 – shinyou – excreta

4 – 駟馬 – shiba – four-horse carriage

5 – 蚩尾 – shibi – ornamental ridge-end tile

6 – 鴟尾 – shibi – ornamental ridge-end tile

7 – 鵄尾 – shibi – ornamental ridge-end tile

8 – 紫微 – shibi – Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)

9 – 師傅 – shifu – guardian and tutor of a nobleman’s child​

10 – 嗜癖 – shiheki – addiction

11 – 揣摩 – shima – conjecture, speculation

12 – 迹門 – shakumon – first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being

13 – 芍薬 – shakuyaku – Chinese peony

14 – 藉口 – shakou – pretense

15 – 奢侈 – shashi – luxury

16 – 社稷 – shashoku – country, god of grain, soil and grain

17 – 沙石 – shaseki / saseki – sand and pebbles

18 – 洒脱 – shadatsu – sophisticated, refined, witty

19 – 驟雨 – shuuu – sudden downpour

20 – 終焉 – shuuen – end of life

21 – 褶曲 – shuukyoku – geologic fold

22 – 修身 – shuushin – morals, ethics

23 – 就褥 – shuujyoku – going to bed, being bedridden

24 – 脩竹 – shuuchiku – tall bamboo

25 – 修祓 – shuufutsu / shuubatsu – purification rite (esp. one held prior to a Shinto event)​

26 – 皺襞 – shuuheki – mountain folds

27 – 褶襞 – shuuheki – mountain folds

28 – 収覧 – shuuwan – grasping, winning over

29 – 秋霖 – shuurin – long autumn rains

30 – 収斂 – shuuren – summarising opinions, collecting taxes

31 – 醜穢 – shuuwai – ugly and filthy

32 – 宿痾 – shukua – chronic disease

33 – 酒肆 – shushi – liquor shop, bar

34 – 繻子 – shusu – satin

35 – 鬚髯 – shuzen – mustache and beard

36 – 出廬 – shutsuro – coming out of retirement

37 – 麈尾 – shubi – priest’s flapper made from the tail of a large deer, long stick with the tail of a large deer attached

38 – 溲瓶 – shubin – bedpan

39 – 撞木 – shumoku – T-shaped wooden bell hammer

40 – 須臾 – shuyu – a moment

41 – 峻峭 – shunshou – tall and steep

42 – 逡巡 – shunjyun – hesitation

43 – 浚渫 – shunsetsu – dredging

44 – 蠢動 – shundou – wriggling

45 – 傷痍 – shoui – wound

46 – 頌栄 – shouei – doxology

47 – 漿液 – shoueki – serous fluids

48 – 笙歌 – shouka – singing and playing the shou

49 – 漿果 – shouka – grape, banana, tomato etc

50 – 消夏 – shouka – spending the summer

51 – 障碍 – shougai – hindrance

52 – 障礙 – shougai – hindrance

53 – 鍾馗 – Shōki the Plague-Queller, Zhong Kui, traditional Chinese deity said to prevent plagues and ward off evil and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons

Unknown artist – Sword Guard (Tsuba) with Zhong Kui (Shōki) the Demon Queller – Cleveland Museum of Art

54 – 猖獗 – shouketsu – spreading, running rampant

55 – 昇汞 – shoukou – mercury chloride

56 – 猩紅熱 – shoukounetsu – scarlet fever

57 – 峭刻 – shoukoku – very rigorous

58 – 蕭索 – shousaku – lonely

59 – 小祠 – shoushi – small hokora, small shrine

60 – 頌詩 – shoushi – admired poem

61 – 瀟洒 – shousha – stylish, chic

62 – 頌春 – shoushun – Happy New Year

63 – 昇叙 – shoujyo – promotion

64 – 庠序 – shoujyo – school

65 – 猩猩 – shoujyou – orangutan, a heavy drinker, a kind of Japanese sea spirit with red face and hair and a fondness for alcohol.

66 – 霄壌 – shoujyou – heaven and earth

67 – 傷悴 – shousui – great grief

68 – 竦然 – shouzen – terrified

69 – 悚然 – shouzen – terrified

70 – 蕭然 – shouzen – lonely, desolate

71 – 小篆 – shouten – small seal script (arising during China’s Warring States period)

72 – 床榻 – shoutou – bed, bench

73 – 檣頭 – shoutou – top of mast

74 – 翔破 – shouha – completing a flight

75 – 証憑 – shouhyou – voucher, documentary evidence of a transaction

​76 – 慴伏 – shoufuku – prostrating oneself in fear, kneeling in fear

77 – 懾伏 – shoufuku – prostrating oneself in fear, kneeling in fear

78 – 招聘 – shouhei – (courteous) invitation, call

79 – 墻壁 – shouheki – enclosing wall, boundary fence

​80 – 舂米 – shoumai – polished rice

81 – 倡佯 – shouyou – wandering

82 – 慫慂 – shouyou – recommendation, persuasion

83 – 逍遥 – shouyou – wander, saunter

84 – 松籟 – shourai – (sound of) wind through pine trees

​85 – 聳立 – shouritsu – being conspicuously tall

86 – 鷦鷯 – shouryou – winter wren

87 – 瘴癘 – shourei – tropical disease (e.g. malaria)

88 – 雎鳩 – shokyuu – Osprey

89 – 贖罪 – shokuzai – atonement

90 – 矚望 – shokubou – expecting much from

91 – 蹠骨 – shokotsu – metatarsal

92 – 書肆 – shoshi – bookstore

93 – 蜀魂 – shokkon- lesser cuckoo

94 – 薯蕷 – shoyo – Japanese yam

95 – 翅翼 – shiyoku – wing (of bird)

96 – 嗜欲 – shiyoku – a liking for

97 – 糝粉 – shinko – rice flour

98 – 瞋恚 – shini / shinni – ill will, antipathy, irateness

99 – 宸翰 – shikan – imperial letter

100 – 心悸 – shinki – palpation of the heart

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