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Level 1 Jukugo (Part 8)

1 – 鍼灸 – shinkyuu – acupuncture and moxibustion

2 – 蜃気楼 – shinkirou – mirage

3 – 宸襟 – shinkin – inner feelings of the emperor

4 – 箴言 – shingen – a proverb, Book of Proverbs

5 – 侵寇 – shinkou – harmful military conquest

6 – 親炙 = shinsha – being influenced by someone after developing a close association

7 – 斟酌 – shinshaku – taking into consideration; making allowances for

8 – 滲出 – shinshutsu – infiltration, percolation

9 – 縉紳 – shinshin – a person of rank

10 – 鍼術 – shinjyutsu – acupuncture

11 – 神饌 – shinsen – food and alcohol offering to the gods

12 – 真鍮 – shinchuu – brass

13 – 振盪 – shintou – shock, concussion

14 – 軫念 – shinnen – the grief or feelings of the Emperor

15 – 慈雨 – jiu – rain that comes after a drought

16 – 時艱 – jikan – hardships peculiar to an age

17 – 忸怩 – jikuji – ashamed

18 – 舳艫 – jikuro – bow and stern

19 – 耳朶 – jida – earlobe

20 – 昵近 – jikkin – familiarity, closeness

21 – 昵懇 – jikkon – intimacy, familiarity, closeness

22 – 自刎 – jifun – committing suicide by slitting one’s throat

23 – 邪慳 – jyaken – cruel

24 – 絨緞 – jyuutan – carpet, rug

25 – 蹂躪 – jyuurin – trampling down, overrunning, infringement, violation

26 – 誦経 – jyukyou / zukyou – chanting or reading the sutras

27 – 熟視 – jukushi – scrutinising

28 – 竪子 – jyushi – young lad

29 – 孺子 – jyushi – young lad

30 – 呪詛 – jyuso – a curse

31 – 戍卒 – jyusotsu – a garrison

32 – 蓴菜 – jyunsai – a water shield

33 – 殉死 – jyunshi – following one’s master into the grave, committing suicide after one’s lord has died​

34 – 常鶲 – jyoubitaki – Daurian Redstart

35 – 攘夷 – jyoui – expulsion of foreigners

36 – 城隍 – jyoukou – castle and moat

37 – 饒舌 – jyouzetsu – talkative

38 – 仍孫 – jyouson – seventh-generation descendant

39 – 烝民 – jyoumin – the people

40 – 上﨟 – jyourou – a court lady

41 – 溽暑 – jyokusho – muggy

42 – 蓐傷 – jyokushou – bedsore

43 – 褥婦 – jyokufu – a woman who has recently given birth

44 – 縟礼 – jyokurei – bothersome formalities

45 – 抒情 – jyojyou – description of one’s feelings

46 – 女壻 – jyosei – son-in-law

47 – 爾来 – jirai – since then

48 – 糂汰 – jinda – salted rice-bran paste for pickling​

49 – 蕁麻 – jinma – stinging nettle

50 – 蕁麻疹 – jinmashin – hives, nettle rash

51 – 人籟 – jinrai – sound of wind instrument

52 – 推鞠 – suikiku – investigating (i.e. a criminal)

53 – 推鞫 – suikiku – investigating (i.e. a criminal)

54 – 推敲 – suikou – polishing (a piece of writing)

55 – 水滸伝 – suikoden – The Water Margin (classic of Chinese literature), Outlaws of the Marsh, All Men are Brothers

56 – 炊爨 – suisan – cooking (rice, grains)

57 – 垂迹 – suijyaku – manifested form (of a Buddha or Shinto deity to save people)

58 – 彗星 – suisei – comet

59 – 燧石 – suiseki – flint

60 – 垂涎 – suizen – desire, craving, drooling

61 – 膵臓 – suizou – pancreas

62 – 衰頽 – suitai – decline

63 – 膵島 – suitou – pancreatic islets

64 – 隧道 – suidou – tunnel

65 – 推輓 – suiban – recommendation

66 – 蘇枋 – suou – a type of red dye

67 – 寸毫 – sungou – not the slightest bit

68 – 精悍 – seikan – virile, masculine

69 – 擠陥 – seikan – tempting into crime

70 – 菁莪 – seiga – raising prodigies

71 – 生擒 – seikin – capturing something alive

72 – 西魏 – seigi – Western Wei dynasty (of China; 535-557)

73 – 青瓷 – seiji / aoji – Celadon porcelain

74 – 西戎 – seijyuu – inhabitants of the extremities of China as early as the Shang dynasty (1765-1122 BCE)

75 – 掣肘 – seichuu – restraint

76 – 静寧 – seinei – peace, calm

77 – 静謐 – seihitsu – peace, calm

78 – 清冽 – seiretsu – cool and clear

79 – 蜥蜴 – sekieki – lizard

80 – 石筍 – sekijyun – stalagmite

81 – 寂然 – sekizen – lonely, desolate

82 – 石鏃 – sekizoku – flint arrowhead

83 – 瘠地 – sekichi – barren land

84 – 尺牘 – sekitoku / shakudoku – letter, epistle

85 – 石礫 – sekireki – pebble

86 – 折檻 – sekkan – smacking, spanking, scolding

87 – 夕暉 – sekki – rays of the setting sun

Setting sun of lake Biwa. Photo – ccfarmer

88 – 石碣 – sekketsu – stone monument, tombstone

89 – 切磋 – sessa – working hard, polishing stones

90 – 鑷子 – sesshi – forceps, tweezers

91 – 截然 – setsuzen – distinctive

92 – 潺湲 – senen / senkan – babbling; murmuring (stream, brook)

93 – 羶血 – senketsu – stink of blood or meat

94 – 嬋妍 – senken – graceful

95 – 銓衡 – senkou – selection

96 – 譫語 – sengo / uwagoto – talking in delirium

97 – 剪裁 – sensai – cutting, trimming, shearing, pruning

98 – 穿鑿 – sensaku – probing into, digging into, poking one’s nose into, excavation

99 – 僭主 – senshu – usurper, tyrant

100 – 先蹤 – senshou – precedent

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