| Current Entry | 普通 [ふつう] /(adj-no) (1) general/ordinary/usual/(2) train that stops at every station/(P)/ (1497190) |
| Headword 1 | 普通 |
| Reading 1 | ふつう |
| Part-of-speech | adj-no |
| English 1 | (1) general |
| English 2 | ordinary |
| English 3 | usual |
| English 4 | (2) train that stops at every station |
| Comment | Now on this I cannot be challenged as I have more hours sitting inside Japanese trains than some of you folks have been alive. If you use 普通 to mean "train that stops at every station" and don't qualify it - in conversation, you had better have some serious context to go with it. "kaku-tei-sha" is about as elliptical as I would like to be in conversation, if I did not say "futsuu ressha or futsuu densha" neither of which I would say actually as I seriously dislike ambiguity and confusion. What is written on the front of the train would, however, suffice as context and then 普通 would make sense. |
| Name | Dennis |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | I have made it clearer that 普通 in sense 2 is an abbreviation of 普通列車. |
| Current Entry | 海星;人手;海盤車 [ひとで;ヒトデ] /(n) (1) (uk) asteroid (any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea)/starfish/sea star/(2) northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)/(n) (3) (人手 only) someone else's hands/other hands/(n) (4) (人手 only) hand (worker)/aide/ (2194790) |
| Headword 1 | 海星 |
| Headword 2 | 人手 |
| Headword 3 | 海盤車 |
| Reading 1 | ひとで |
| Reading 2 | ヒトデ |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (1) (uk) starfish |
| English 2 | asteroid (any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea) |
| English 3 | sea star |
| English 4 | (2) northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis) |
| English 5 | (n) (3) (人手 only) someone else's hands |
| English 6 | other hands |
| English 7 | (n) (4) (人手 only) hand (worker) |
| English 8 | aide |
| Comment | Put 'starfish' first for (1) as it's the most useful 訳語 for that sense. |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 数 [すう] /(n-suf) (1) several/a number of/(n) (2) number/numeral/figure/(3) destiny/fate/(4) law/(P)/ (1580825) |
| Headword 1 | 数 |
| Reading 1 | すう |
| Part-of-speech | n-suf |
| English 1 | (1) several |
| English 2 | a number of |
| English 3 | (n) (2) number |
| English 4 | numeral |
| English 5 | figure |
| English 6 | (3) destiny |
| English 7 | fate |
| English 8 | (4) law |
| Comment | (1) is down as 'n-suf' but doesn't it usually come /before/ a counter? |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 夥しい |
| Reading 1 | おびただしい |
| Part-of-speech | adj-i |
| English 1 | abundant |
| English 2 | innumerable |
| Comment | the existing entry contains only definitions that are adverbs. why would we define an adjective with an adverb? |
| Name | Brian Watson |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 追いつめる |
| Reading 1 | おいつめる |
| Part-of-speech | v5r |
| English 1 | To chase into a corner. |
| English 2 | To chase after. |
| Reference | http://www.iyume.com/research/hoshinaga/poems2004.html
Adapted from the bilingual foreword to the book: 逃げ水へ戦後の父を追いつめる nigemizu e sengo no chichi wo oitsumeru toward the mirage of water the postwar fathers chasing after … |
| Comment | Oitsumeru may have more of a connotation of being "chased into a corner and then trapped" than just chasing after. But I'm not sure. |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment | Added to the 追い詰める entry. |
| Headword 1 | 破竹の勢い |
| Reading 1 | はちくのいきおい |
| Part-of-speech | exp |
| Misc | id |
| English 1 | with great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick) |
| Reference | http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=%C7%CB%C3%DD%A4%CE%C0%AA%A4%A4&kind=jn&mode=0&kwassist=0 |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 飛ぶ鳥も落とす勢い |
| Reading 1 | とぶとりをおとすいきおい |
| Part-of-speech | exp |
| Misc | id |
| English 1 | great vigor |
| English 2 | tremendous energy |
| English 3 | lit: forceful enough to knock down birds in flight |
| Cross-reference | 飛ぶ鳥を落とす勢い |
| Reference | http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search/1158000-0000/jn/5/ |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 怒濤の勢い |
| Reading 1 | どとうのいきおい |
| Part-of-speech | exp |
| English 1 | with great vigour |
| English 2 | in leaps and bounds |
| English 3 | lit: with the force of surging waves |
| Cross-reference | 飛ぶ鳥 |
| Reference | 彼の出世は怒濤の勢いだ。
His career is progressing in leaps and bounds. |
| Comment | 28,600 Google hits |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 晴れの舞台 |
| Reading 1 | はれのぶたい |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | gala occasion |
| Cross-reference | 晴れ舞台 |
| Reference | http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=%C0%B2%A4%EC%A4%CE%C9%F1%C2%E6&kind=jn
結婚式のことだけどさあ、君の一世一代の晴れの舞台なんだから、地味婚などといわないで、パーッと派手にしたらどうなのさ。 About the wedding ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction so instead of doing it on a shoestring why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it? [M] |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 正悪 |
| Reading 1 | せいあく |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | right and wrong |
| Reference | 「損得」という尺度の前に、「正悪」という尺度を持ち、しっかりとした企業文化を作り上げていくことは経営者の最重要課題だと思いました。
彼は正悪の区別がつかない。 He has no sense of right and wrong. 彼は正悪を見分けられない。 He cannot tell the right from the wrong. |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 窮鼠猫を噛む [きゅうそねこをかむ] /(exp) (obs) Despair turns cowards courageous/ (2103200) |
| Headword 1 | 窮鼠猫を噛む |
| Headword 2 | 窮鼠猫をかむ |
| Reading 1 | きゅうそねこをかむ |
| Part-of-speech | exp |
| English 1 | A cornered rat will bite a cat |
| English 2 | Despair turns cowards courageous |
| Reference | http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=窮鼠猫を噛む&kind=jn |
| Comment | I don't think this is (obs) or (obsc).
42,800 Google hits, and a saying that can be used in conversation. |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 何なのか [なに;なん] /(n) ？/TempSUB/ |
| Headword 1 | 何なのか |
| Reading 1 | なんなのか |
| Part-of-speech | exp |
| English 1 | the meaning of something |
| English 2 | what something is about |
| English 3 | TempSUB |
| English 4 | FIX P |
| Comment | I'm dubious that this has the なになのか reading, and if it does it should be the second, not first. |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | I got a higher count for 何なのか + なになのか, but I feel it's なんなのか too. |
| Headword 1 | 整備性 |
| Reading 1 | せいびせい |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | serviceability, ease of maintaining |
| Reference | 駆動効率の向上とともに課題となっていたのは、整備性の向上である。 |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 格ゲー |
| Reading 1 | かくゲー |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| Misc | abbr |
| Misc | col |
| English 1 | beat'-em-up game |
| English 2 | (one on one) fighting game |
| Cross-reference | 格闘ゲーム |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 格闘ゲーム |
| Reading 1 | かくとうゲーム |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | beat'-em-up game |
| English 2 | (one on one) fighting game |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 大刀 [たいとう(P);だいとう] /(n) long sword/(P)/ (1414620) |
| Headword 1 | 大刀 |
| Reading 1 | たいとう |
| Reading 2 | だいとう |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | long sword |
| Comment | Is this a sword that is long, or is it a longsword ? |
| Name | Paul Blay |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | The former. |