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Level 1 Jukugo (Part 17)

1 – 縷述 – rujyutsu – detailed explanation

2 – 縷説 – ruestsu – detailed explanation

3 – 縷陳 – ruchin – detailed explanation

4 – 霊柩 – reikyuu – coffin

5 – 令閨 – reikei – your wife

6 – 黎元 – reigen – the masses

7 – 励行 – reikou – strict observance of the rules

8 – 厲行 – reikou – strict observance of the rules

9 – 茘枝 – reishi – lychee

10 – 励精 – reisei – diligence

11 – 厲精 – reisei – diligence

12 – 醴泉 – reisen – spring of sweet water

13 – 黎民 – reimin – the masses

14 – 黎明 – reimei – daybreak

15 – 伶俐 – reiri – clever

16 – 怜悧 – reiri – clever

17 – 玲瓏 – reirou – sweet ringing

18 – 礫岩 – rekigan – conglomerate stone

19 – 轢殺 – rekisatsu – killing by running over with a car or train

20 – 轢死 – rekishi – death by being run over

21 – 瀝青 – rekisei – asphalt, bitumen

22 – 轢断 – rekidan – cutting in two under train wheels

23 – 礫土 – rekido – gravelly soil

24 – 冽冽 – retsuretsu – extremely cold

25 – 輦車 – rensha / renjya – wheeled palanquin

26 – 攣縮 – renshuku – spasm

27 – 斂葬 – rensou – burial

28 – 輦台 – rendai – lotus-shaped pedestal for images of the Buddha, river palanquin

‘Shimada’, from Fifty-three Stations on the Tokaido Road, circa 1840-1842, Utagawa Hiroshige

29 – 憐愍 – renbin – pity

30 – 聯袂 – renbei – doing in unison

31 – 櫓臍 – robeso – fulcrum peg (fitted into the cavity in an oar as part of a traditional oarlock)

32 – 漏洩 – rouei – leak (information, gas)

33 – 漏泄 – rouei – leak (information, gas)

34 – 老媼 – rouou – old woman

35 – 陋屋 – rouoku – cramped home

36 – 老獪 – roukai – cunning

37 – 老猾 – roukatsu – cunning

38 – 瘻管 – roukan – fistula

39 – 癆痎 – rougai – pulmonary tuberculosis

40 – 鏤刻 – roukoku – engraving

41 – 狼藉 – rouzeki – disorder, riot

42 – 老衲 – rounou – elderly priest

43 – 老耄 – roumou – senility

44 – 陋劣 – rouretsu – nasty

45 – 濾過 – roka – filtration

46 – 鹵獲 – rokaku – looting

47 – 轆轤 – rokuro – potter’s wheel

48 – 濾紙 – roshi – filter paper

49 – 廬舎 – rosha – small house

50 – 鹵簿 – robo – Imperial procession

51 – 矮小 – waishou – diminutive

52 – 矮星 – waisei – dwarf star

53 – 猥本 – waihon -obscene book

54 – 和煦 – waku – warmth of the spring sun

55 – 倭寇 – wakō; Japanese pirates who raided the Chinese and Korean coastlines between the 13th and 16th centuries

56 – 彎月 – wangetsu – crescent

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