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| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noroke | To brag about or sing the praises of the person you love | Japanese | love emotion | |
| Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
| Ukiyo | The floating world - living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life | Japanese | creative visual art | |
| Yokomeshi | Literal: "meal eaten sideways"; the stress caused by speaking a foreign language | Japanese | stress feeling awareness | |
| kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
| Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
| Komorebi (木漏れ日) | Lit. wood is ‘leaking’ sunlight; dappled sunlight filtering through leaves. | Japanese | nature beauty | |
| Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
| Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
| Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
| Ikigai | A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. | Japanese | growth happiness | |
| Amaeru | To seek affection through doing things like clinging or pleading | Japanese | persistence | |
| Mono no aware | The bittersweetness of a brief and grading moment of transcendent beauty. | Japanese | beauty | |
| Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
| Fuubutsushi | The things – feelings, scents, images – that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. | Japanese | time | |
| Kyoiku mama | A mother who relentlessly pushes her children toward academic achievement | Japanese | family work growth | |
| On (恩) | A feeling of moral indebtedness, relating to a favour or blessing given by others. | Japanese | life | |
| Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
| Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
| Haiku (俳句) | A form of Japanese poetry, usually just 17 syllables long (with lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables), involving the sudden juxtapositions of ideas or images, and often focused on natural (e.g., seasonal) phenomena. | Japanese | art | |
| Boketto | The act of gazing vacantly into the distance. | Japanese | thinking | |
| Mu (無) | Not one, not zero, not yes, not no | Japanese | measurement | |
| Tachiyomi | To stand in a bookstore and read a book without buying it | Japanese | society funny action | |
| Kenshō (見性) | Seeing (ken) one’s nature or essence (shō); perceiving one’s Buddha nature; sometimes interpreted as an initial or brief awakening. | Japanese | awareness growth | |
| Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness |
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