The Kodansha

Kanji
Learners
Dictionary
Editor in Chief

Jack Halpern

KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL
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To All Learners of Japanese

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The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary is based on the New Japanese-English Character

Dictionary, copyright Jack Halpern, published by Kenkyusha Limited in 1990 (available outside Japan from NTC).
Publication was assisted by a grant from the Japan Foundation.

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E 5-5
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tSLEEP
MINnemu(ru)nemu(i)

s
Jy S10-5-5 K4418
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109
C1398 1147 U7720
E1-5-5

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T
2 COMPOUNDS
5 r [original meaning] SLEEP
suimin sleep, slumber
6 saiminjutsu hypnotism, mesmerism
t fumin sleeplessness, insomnia

%&"

E1-5-5

wreck

pieces

lapse, downfall

bakuha blasting, blowing up, explosion

nanpa shipwreck
daha suru break down, overthrow,
abolish

>

surmount; exceed

read (another's thoughts)

Y BREAK the enemy, defeat

tadashi

S10-5-5
1148

toppa suru break [smash] through;

kanpa suru see through, penetrate,

tRULE
KUkane> noritsunetadasu

gekiha suru defeat, rout; destroy

ronpa suru refute, defeat in argu-

K2275
U77E9

ment

renpa suru defeat one's enemy in

COMPOUNDS

succession

r (established standard) RULE, standard, criterion

Zg (act contrary to) BREAK (as a promise),

breach, violate
h BREAK with (the moral conventions), be
exceptional

kusoku rule, standard

KUN

haki breaking (a treaty), annulment

hadan cancellation, breaking off
hayaku breach of contract
> harenchi shamelessness, infamy,

kane carpenter's square, metal measure;

regular shaku () (approx. 12 in.)

kanejaku carpenter's square; regular

shaku () (approx. 12 in.)

impudence

NOTE

[ BREAK down, go to pieces, go broke

do not confuse with SHORT 0801

0782-0784

hakai suru break (down), destroy,

hametsu ruin, destruction, wreck, col-

nemuri sleep, slumber, nap

nemurikomu fall asleep
nemui SLEEPy
nemutai sleepy
nemuke sleepiness

E1-5-5

K3943
U7834

hahen fragment, broken piece, scrap

hason damage, breakdown
hasai suru crush, smash, crack to

nemuru SLEEP

Names
111 D2278

S10-5-5
1150

COMPOUNDS

KUN

%&!

Jy-5
112 B0658

Xg [original meaning] BREAK, smash

h BREAK through, penetrate

tmin hibernation (winter sleep)

anmin quiet sleep, peaceful slumber
eimin eternal sleep, death

tBREAK

HAyabu(ru)yabu(reru)

hakyoku collapse, catastrophe

hatan failure, rupture; bankruptcy

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