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| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
| Mu (無) | Not one, not zero, not yes, not no | Japanese | measurement | |
| Nintendo | “Leave luck to heaven” or to leave one's fortune in the hands of fate | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
| 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 | |
| Eshaku | A slight bow of around 15 degrees | Japanese | physical action | |
| Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
| Yoroshiku onegai shimasu | Favorably, please. | Japanese | positive | |
| Tokimeki ときめき | Excitement; Feeling of bliss or joy from a discrete experience | Japanese | emotion feeling happiness | |
| Amaeru | To seek affection through doing things like clinging or pleading | Japanese | persistence | |
| Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
| Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
| Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
| 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 | |
| Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
| Mono no aware | The bittersweetness of a brief and grading moment of transcendent beauty. | Japanese | beauty | |
| Utura-utura (うつらうつら) | To drift between sleep and wakefulness. | Japanese | event time phsyical | |
| Kyoiku mama | A mother who relentlessly pushes her children toward academic achievement | Japanese | family work growth | |
| Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
| Seijaku (静寂) | Quiet (sei) tranquillity (jaku); silence, calm, serenity (especially in the midst of activity or chaos). | Japanese | awareness beauty | |
| Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
| Noroke | To brag about or sing the praises of the person you love | Japanese | love emotion | |
| Fuubutsushi | The things – feelings, scents, images – that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. | Japanese | time | |
| 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 | |
| Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
| Ukiyo | The floating world - living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life | Japanese | creative visual art |
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