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Level 1 Jukugo (Part 9)

1 – 船檣 – senshou – mast

2 – 僭称 – senshou – pretension, assumption of a title

3 – 尠少 – senshou – very few, very little

4 – 僭上 – senjyou – audacity

5 – 千仞 – senjin – great depth, bottomless, great height

6 – 潺潺 – sensen – murmur (of a stream)

7 – 占筮 – senzei – divination (using bamboo divination sticks)​

8 – 践祚 – senso – accession (to the throne)

9 – 蘚苔 – sentai – moss

10 – 擅断 – sendan – arbitrary decision, using one’s own discretion

11 – 剪定 – sentei – trimming, pruning

12 – 顫動 – sendou – vibration

13 – 羶肉 – senniku – meat that smells of blood

14 – 先妣 – senpi – one’s late mother

15 – 餞別 – senbetsu – farewell gift

16 – 瞻望 – senbou – looking afar

17 – 譫妄 – senbou / senmou – delirium

18 – 饌米 – senmai – offering of consecrated rice

19 – 闡明 – senmei – clarification

20 – 殲滅 – senmetsu – annihilation

21 – 蘚類 – senrui – mosses

22 – 贅言 – zeigen – redundancy

23 – 噬斉 – zeisei – bitter regret

24 – 噬臍 – zeisei – bitter regret

25 – 筮竹 – zeichiku – bamboo divination stick

26 – 贅肉 – zeiniku – flab

27 – 贅六 – zeiroku – person from Kansai

28 – 喘鳴 – zenmei – wheezing

29 – 僧庵 – souan – priest’s hermitage

30 – 創痍 – soui – wound, damage

31 – 躁鬱 – souutsu – manic depression, mood swing

32 – 挿秧 – souou – rice planting

33 – 滄海 – soukai – the blue waters

34 – 創刊 – soukan – first publication

35 – 蒼穹 – soukyuu – blue sky

36 – 躁狂 – soukyou – wild excitement

37 – 箏曲 – soukyoku – koto music

38 – 綜絖 – soukou – a wire or cord with an eye

39 – 蒼惶 – soukou – in great haste

40 – 艙口 – soukou – hatch

41 – 相剋 – soukoku – rivalry

42 – 双翅目 – soushimoku – diptera, an order of flies

43 – 叢生 – sousei – dense growth

44 – 簇生 – sousei – dense growth

45 – 蒼然 – souzen – bluish

46 – 怱卒 – sousotsu – hurried, sudden

47 – 装幀 – soutei – design (of a book cover)

48 – 躁病 – soubyou – mania

49 – 双鬢 – soubin – side locks

50 – 艸部 – soubu – grass radical

51 – 双眸 – soubou – pair of eyes

52 – 蒼氓 – soubou – the public

53 – 蒼茫 – soubou – vast and blue (e.g. ocean)

54 – 蒼溟 – soumei – great blue sea

55 – 剿滅 – soumetsu – annihilation

56 – 総覧 – souran – general overview, complete guide

57 – 倉廩 – sourin – rice granary

58 – 蒼浪 – sourou – blue waves

59 – 蹌踉 – sourou – staggering

60 – 惻隠 – sokuin – compassion, pity

61 – 仄韻 – sokuin – oblique-tone rhyme (of Chinese)​

62 – 仄声 – sokusei – oblique tones (the three tones of Chinese that exclude the high-level, or first, tone)

63 – 惻惻 – sokusoku – heart-wrenching

64 – 仄聞 – sokubun – hearing by chance

65 – 齟齬 – sogo – inconsistency, conflict, contradiction, failure, frustration

66 – 咀嚼 – soshaku – mastication

67 – 疽腫 – soshou – swelling, boil

68 – 粗鬆 – soshou / sosou – rough, unrefined

69 – 蔬食 – soshoku – vegetarian diet

70 – 俎上 – soujyou – on the chopping board

71 – 甦生 – sosei – revival

72 – 阻喪 – sosou – loss of spirit, dejection

73 – 俎豆 – sotou – ancient altar of sacrifice

74 – 祖妣 – sohi – deceased grandmother

75 – 麁品 – sohin =promotional merchandise

76 – 粗笨 – sohon – crude

77 – 梳毛 – somou – yarn

78 – 蘇油 – soyu – butter from cow’s milk, toad venom

79 – 酥油 – soyu – butter from cow’s milk, toad venom

80 – 蔬糲 – sorei – unpolished rice

81 – 麁糲 – sorei – unpolished rice

82 – 蹲踞 – sonkyo / sonko – formal crouch performed at the beginning of a sumo or kendo match

Sonkyo. Photo – Rex Walters

83 – 樽俎 – sonso – eating or drinking party​

84 – 忖度 – sontaku – surmise (about someone’s feelings), showing deference to, servility

​85 – 象嵌 – zougan – inlay

86 – 蔵匿 – zoutoku – concealment, shelter, harbouring

​87 – 臧否 – zouhi – the good and the bad

88 – 臓腑 – zoufu – entrails

89 – 贓物 – zoubutsu / zoumotsu – stolen goods

90 – 対偶 – taiguu – a couple

91 – 褪紅 – taikou – pink

92 – 代赭 – taisha – red ochre

93 – 褪色 – taishoku – faded colour

94 – 対峙 – taiji – standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings), squaring off against

95 – 頽勢 – taisei – decline, one’s declining fortunes

96 – 対蹠 – taiseki / taisho – diametrical opposition

97 – 擡頭 – taitou – emergence, gaining prominence, gaining power

98 – 頽唐 – taitou – decline

99 – 駘蕩 – taitou – large and wide, peaceful and calm

100 – 大纛 – taitou / daitou – large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.)

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