Lesson 1

26 of 76 Vocabulary

day ②sun ③(the) day ④date
Moon ②month ③moonlight ④(a) moon
January ②first month of the lunar calendar
water (esp. cool or cold) ②fluid (esp. in an animal tissue) ③flood ④water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
tree ②wood ③wooden clappers (signaling the beginning or end of a performance)
gold (metal) ②something of great value ③money ④karat (measure of purity of gold) ⑤metal (fourth phase of Wu Xing)
earth ②the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens) ③low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud) ④(period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
plot of land ②locality
year ②age ③past one's prime
one o'clock ②once ③for a time ④a time
time ②occasion ③chance ④the times
to understand ②to become clear ③I know!
to divide (into) ②to share ③to distinguish ④to break up (a fight)