[kana (P); kanaa](prt) (1) I wonder (sentence ending prt); (2) should I? (question prt when thinking out loud); is it?; (3) I wish that (with a negative); I hope that; (P)#7407[Add to Longdo]
[かなた(P);あなた, kanata (P); anata](pn, adj-no) (1) (uk) (See 何方・どちら・1, 此方・こちら・1, 其方・1) that way (direction distant from both speaker and listener); over there; yonder; (2) that one (something physically distant from both speaker and listener, or something not visible but known by both speaker and listener); that; (pn) (3) (あちら is pol.) that person (someone physically distant from both speaker and listener, or someone not present but known by both speaker and listener); (4) there (place distant from both speaker and listener); over there; foreign country (esp. a Western nation); (P)#9485[Add to Longdo]
[rubi-(P); rubi (P)](n) (1) (esp. ルビー) ruby; (2) (esp. ルビ) ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material); (3) { comp } Ruby (programming language); (P)#12192[Add to Longdo]
[ちゅうしんぐら, chuushingura](n) (See 浄瑠璃) performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748)#12314[Add to Longdo]
[おんぷ, onpu](n) (1) (See お玉杓子) musical note; note symbol; (2) phonetic symbol (inc. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.); (3) (See 意符) part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning); (P)#14351[Add to Longdo]
[つぐ, tsugu](v5g, vt) (uk) (usu. written as kana when referring to a solid) to pour (into a vessel); to fill; to dish out food or drink; (P)#15571[Add to Longdo]
[かたかな(P);カタカナ(P), katakana (P); katakana (P)](n) (uk) (See 平仮名) katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords; (P)#15795[Add to Longdo]
[かねる, kaneru](aux-v) (1) (See 兼ねない) to be unable to (usu. kana); to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do (usu. kana); (v1, vt) (2) to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; (3) to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside; (4) to hesitate to do something (out of consideration for others); (5) to think of the future (as well as the present); (P)#17407[Add to Longdo]
[ぶる, buru](v5r, vt) (1) to wave; to shake; to swing; (2) to sprinkle; to throw (dice); (3) to cast (actor); to allocate (work); (4) to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump; (5) to abandon; to give up; to ruin; (6) (See 振り仮名) to add kana indicating a reading of a word; (7) to slightly change headings; to change directions; (8) to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct; (9) to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine); (10) to bring up the main topic; (11) to replace; to substitute; (12) to set up a joke for somebody else; (P)#18866[Add to Longdo]
[なかぐろ, nakaguro](n) middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)#19561[Add to Longdo]
[なかぽち, nakapochi](n) (See 中黒, 中点) middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)[Add to Longdo]