Lesson 7

14 Kanji

56 Vocabulary

older sister
apartment building ②apartment
younger sister
song ②classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka) ③modern poetry
grandfather ②male senior-citizen
younger brother ②brother-in-law (spouse's younger brother or younger sister's husband) ③pupil
older sister ②young lady ③miss ④ma'am
grandmother ②old woman
hair (on the head)
siblings ②brothers ③siblings-in-law ④mate
mouth ②opening ③counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), stove burners, and swords
country ②region ③national government ④home (i.e. hometown, home country)
car ②wheel
group with a common interest (e.g. students) ②circle (shape)
dining room ②restaurant
eye ②eyesight ③ordinal number suffix ④somewhat
cute ②dear ③innocent ④dainty
short (of a person)
long (distance, length) ②long (time)
fast ②early ③premature ④easy
short ②brief
to sing ②to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem
to put on (one's head) ②to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.) ③to be fogged (due to overexposure, etc.) ④to close
to know ②to sense ③to understand ④to remember
to live (of humans)
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear) ②to affix (a sword to one's hip) ③to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
to put on weight
to wear (from the shoulders down) ②to take (the blame, responsibility)
to work (for) ②to serve (as) ③to conduct a religious service
to become thin ②to be barren
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object) ②indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions) ③but ④regardless of
(not) anything ②and everything else ③(not) at all
counter for people
one person ②being alone ③by oneself ④just
two persons
(not) particularly ②separately
hello (e.g. on phone) ②excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
Note: In order to match dictionary entries, some of the words listed here are shown in simpler forms than what you see in the book, and compound words may be split into multiple entries.
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