[ひと, hito] (suf) (1) -ian (e.g. Italian, etc.) (attaches to name of country to denote nationality); -er (e.g. performer, etc.) (attaches to name of occupation); (2) (usu. in compound words) man; person; people; (P) #49
[まえ, mae] (n-pref) (1) (See 前・まえ) the last (i.e. immediately preceding) (e.g. "the last mayor"); previous; one-time; former; (2) (before the name of an era) pre- (e.g. "premodern"); (adj-no, n) (3) before; earlier; (P) #147
[もと, moto] (n, adj-no, n-adv, n-pref) former; ex- #170
[だいがく, daigaku] (n) (1) (See 総合大学) post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc.; (2) (abbr) (See 大学寮, 国学・こくがく・2) former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); (3) (See 四書) the Great Learning - one of the Four Books; (P) #195
[きゅう, kyuu] (n, pref) ex-; former; old; (P) #398
[せん, sen] (adj-no, n) (1) former; previous; old; (n) (2) first move (in go, shogi, etc.); opening move #620
[さき, saki] (n, adj-no, n-suf, pref) (1) previous; prior; former; some time ago; preceding; (2) point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle; (3) head (of a line); front; (4) ahead; the other side; (5) the future; hereafter; (6) destination; (7) the other party; (P) #620
[じ, ji] (n) (1) Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations); (2) nickname; (3) section of a village #676
[はいゆう, haiyuu] (n, adj-no) (See 役者) actor; actress; player; performer; (P) #767
[ま, ma] (adj-na, n, adj-no) (1) truth; reality; genuineness; (2) seriousness; (n) (3) logical TRUE; (4) (See 楷書) printed style writing; (5) (abbr) (See 真打ち) star performer; (P) #892
[たち, tachi] (suf) pluralizing suffix (esp. for people & animals; formerly honorific); (P) #905
[つま, tsuma] (n) (1) (妻, 夫 only) (usu. 妻) wife; (2) (妻, 夫 only) (arch) dear (formerly used by romantically linked men and women to refer to one another); (3) (uk) garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); (4) (uk) embellishment; (P) #991
[わざ, waza] (n) { Buddh } (See 果報) karma (i.e. actions committed in a former life); (P) #1432
[てい;ちん, tei ; chin] (n) (1) arbor; arbour; bower; pavilion; (suf) (2) (てい only) suffix forming the final part of the pseudonyms of some writers and performers #1976
[ぎょく, gyoku] (n) (1) (also formerly read as ごく) precious stone (esp. jade); (2) { food } egg (sometimes esp. as a sushi topping); (3) stock or security being traded; product being bought or sold; (4) (See 建玉) position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); (5) geisha; (6) (abbr) (See 玉代) time charge for a geisha; (7) (abbr) (See 玉将) king (shogi) #2007
[いちじ, ichiji] (n-t) (1) one o'clock; (n-adv, n-t) (2) once; at one time; formerly; before; (n-adv, n-t, adj-no) (3) (in weather forecasts, indicates that a given condition will hold for less than one-quarter of the forecast period) for a time; for a while; for the time being; for the present; for the moment; temporarily; (n) (4) (See 一時に) a time; one time; once; (P) #2343
[ひととき(P);いっとき(一時), hitotoki (P); ittoki ( ichiji )] (n-t, n-adv) (1) moment; a (short) time; a while; (2) (ひととき only) former times; (3) (arch) two-hour period; (P) #2343
[ソれん(ソ連)(P);それん(蘇連), so ren ( so ren )(P); soren ( soren )] (n, adj-no) (abbr) (former) Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR; (P) #2435
[おれ(P);だいこう(乃公);ないこう(乃公), ore (P); daikou ( daikou ); naikou ( daikou )] (pn, adj-no) (male) I; me (rough or arrogant-sounding first-person pronoun, formerly also used by women); (P) #2522
[げいにん, geinin] (n) player; performer; actor; (P) #2563
[すじ, suji] (n) (1) muscle; tendon; sinew; (2) vein; artery; (3) fiber; fibre; string; (4) line; stripe; streak; (5) (See 筋が通る) reason; logic; (6) plot; storyline; (7) lineage; descent; (8) school (e.g. of scholarship or arts); (9) aptitude; talent; (10) source (of information, etc.); circle; channel; (11) well-informed person (in a transaction); (12) logical move (in go, shogi, etc.); (13) ninth vertical line (shogi); (14) seam on a helmet; (15) (abbr) (See 筋蒲鉾) gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.); (16) (arch) social position; status; (n-suf, n, adj-no) (17) on (a river, road, etc.); along; (suf, ctr) (18) counter for long thin things; (19) (arch) (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency); (P) #3255
[こうせい, kousei] (n) (1) welfare; public welfare; social welfare; (2) (abbr) (See 厚生省) (former) Ministry of Health and Welfare; (P) #3455
[とり, tori] (n) (1) (See びり) key performer; last performer of the day; (2) active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration) #3712
[むかし, mukashi] (adj-no, n-adv, n-t) olden days; former; (P) #3960
[あらため, aratame] (suf) former (e.g. name); previous; changed #4346
[げいのうじん, geinoujin] (n) performer; (P) #4425
[ふるく, furuku] (adv, n) anciently; formerly #4612
[えんせい, ensei] (n, vs, adj-no) (1) expedition; campaign; (performer's) tour; (2) away series (baseball); (P) #4764
[かわる, kawaru] (v5r, vi) (1) to change; to be transformed; to be altered; to vary; (2) to move to; (3) (usu. as 変わった, 変わっている) (See 変わった, 変わっている) to be different; to be uncommon; to be unusual; (P) #4858
[ぜんしゃ, zensha] (n) the former; (P) #5115
[toransu] (n) (1) (abbr) (power) transformer; (2) trance; (pref) (3) (See シストランス異性) trans; (P) #5647
[とおる, tooru] (v5r, vi) (1) to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of; (2) (of public transport) to run (between); to operate (between); to connect; (3) to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in; (4) to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through; (5) to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout; (6) to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far; (7) to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed; (8) to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted; (9) to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for; (10) to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense; (11) to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood; (12) to be straight (e.g. wood grain); (13) (arch) to be well-informed; to be wise; (suf, v5r) (14) (after the -masu stem of a verb) to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly; (P) #5779
[あき, aki] (n) former name of Hiroshima prefecture; (P) #6368
[たゆう, tayuu] (n) (1) (See 能太夫) high-ranking Noh actor; (2) head of a school of noh performance; (3) high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); (4) (See 浄瑠璃, 万歳・まんざい) joruri narrator; manzai narrator; (5) (See 女形) female role actor in kabuki; (6) (See 御師) low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine; (7) (太夫 only) lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) #6515
[おまえ(P);おまい;おめえ, omae (P); omai ; omee] (pn, adj-no) (1) (fam) (male) you (formerly honorific, now sometimes derog. term referring to an equal or inferior); (2) (おまえ only) presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.); (P) #7190
[おおくらしょう, ookurashou] (n) (See 財務省) (former) Ministry of Finance (succeeded by zaimushou in 2000); (P) #7337
[しごう, shigou] (n) (See 贈り名) posthumous name (based the deeds one has performed in their lifetime) #7445
[せんじゅうみん, senjuumin] (n, adj-no) former inhabitant; indigenous people; aborigines #9029
[きゅうせい, kyuusei] (n) one's former (maiden) name; (P) #10072
[きゅうしょう, kyuushou] (n) old name; former title #10912
[きゅうめい, kyuumei] (n) former name; maiden name #11723
[えぞ;えみし(ok), ezo ; emishi (ok)] (n) (1) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); (2) (えぞ only) (See 蝦夷地) Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) #11941
[つうじる, tsuujiru] (v1, vi) to run to; to lead to; to communicate; to understand; to be well-informed; (P) #12026
[ちゅうしんぐら, chuushingura] (n) (See 浄瑠璃) performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) #12314
[raibuhausu] (n) shop, bar, etc. where live jazz, pop, rock, etc. is performed (wasei #12899
[おおもじ(P);だいもんじ, oomoji (P); daimonji] (n) (1) (See 小文字) upper case letters; large characters; capital letter; (2) (だいもんじ only) the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big"; (3) (だいもんじ only) huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on 16 Aug each year; (P) #12928
[えびす, ebisu] (n) (1) (arch) (See 蝦夷) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); (2) provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city); (3) brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan); (4) (derog) foreigner; barbarian #13165
[かいじょうほあんちょう, kaijouhoanchou] (n) Japan Coast Guard (formerly Maritime Safety Agency); (P) #13633
[ぜんにん, zennin] (n, adj-no) former (official) #14392
[きゅうらい, kyuurai] (adj-no, n-adv, n-t) traditional; from ancient times; formerly; (P) #15152