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| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kintsukuroi | To repair with gold. Understanding that a piece is more beautiful for having broken. | Japanese | beauty change | |
| Arigata-meiwaku | When someone does something for you that you didn’t want them to do, and having to express gratitude for the act | Japanese | interaction | |
| Tachiyomi | To stand in a bookstore and read a book without buying it | Japanese | society funny action | |
| Hikikomori | When a young person who is obsessed with TV, video games, and the internet, withdraws from society | Japanese | habits society | |
| Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
| Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
| Nintendo | “Leave luck to heaven” or to leave one's fortune in the hands of fate | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
| Tatemae & Honne | The contrast between a person's feelings and desires (honne) versus the behavior and opinions one displays in public (tatemae) | Japanese | feeling reflection character | |
| Amaeru | To seek affection through doing things like clinging or pleading | Japanese | persistence | |
| Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
| Komorebi (木漏れ日) | Lit. wood is ‘leaking’ sunlight; dappled sunlight filtering through leaves. | Japanese | nature beauty | |
| Boketto | The act of gazing vacantly into the distance. | Japanese | thinking | |
| Mu (無) | Not one, not zero, not yes, not no | Japanese | measurement | |
| Koi No Yokan | The feeling upon meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable. | Japanese | love | |
| Chindogu | A person seemingly inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem, but are in fact nothing more than a useless gag | Japanese | creative funny | |
| Shinrin-yoku (森林浴) | bathing' in the forest (literally and/or metaphorically). | Japanese | nature event | |
| Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
| Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
| 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 | |
| Utura-utura (うつらうつら) | To drift between sleep and wakefulness. | Japanese | event time phsyical | |
| Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
| Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
| Ikigai | A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. | Japanese | growth happiness | |
| Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
| Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy |
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