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| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On (恩) | A feeling of moral indebtedness, relating to a favour or blessing given by others. | Japanese | life | |
| Eshaku | A slight bow of around 15 degrees | Japanese | physical action | |
| Yoisho | A word without meaning, said when flopping into a chair after a hard day at work or lifting a heavy bag. | Japanese | event physical work | |
| Seijaku (静寂) | Quiet (sei) tranquillity (jaku); silence, calm, serenity (especially in the midst of activity or chaos). | Japanese | awareness beauty | |
| 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 | |
| Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
| Majime (真面目) | Reliable, responsible, diligent; seriousness, formality. | Japanese | society attribute | |
| Sokaiya | A man with a few shares in several companies who extorts money by threatening to come to the shareholders' meetings and cause trouble | Japanese | adverse | |
| Utura-utura (うつらうつら) | To drift between sleep and wakefulness. | Japanese | event time phsyical | |
| Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
| 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 | |
| Mono no aware | The bittersweetness of a brief and grading moment of transcendent beauty. | Japanese | beauty | |
| Boketto | The act of gazing vacantly into the distance. | Japanese | thinking | |
| Bimyou | Not bad, or "meh" | Japanese | attribute | |
| Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
| Shinrin-yoku (森林浴) | bathing' in the forest (literally and/or metaphorically). | Japanese | nature event | |
| Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
| Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
| Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
| Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
| Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy | |
| Yoroshiku onegai shimasu | Favorably, please. | Japanese | positive | |
| Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
| kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
| Nito-onna | A woman so dedicated to her career that she has no time to iron blouses, so dresses only in knitted tops. | Japanese | society work |
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