Vocabulary

year of the Dragon

to scramble for; to struggle for; to contend for; to fight for

to take back; to recapture

ablative

to come off; to slip down; to slip off

dressing room

dislocation

threshing (e.g. rice)

threshing machine

escaped prisoner

absorbent cotton; cotton wool

omitted character; omitted letter

caret (symbol for omitted word)

abdominal hernia

(at) high speed; as fast as one can; with lightning speed

evasion of the law

omission

gangrene

harp; lyre

stocktaking; inventory count

soba with tempura batter

gadid (any fish of the family Gadidae, incl. cod, haddock, whiting and pollack)

cod roe (roe of any fish from family Gadidae, esp. salted walleye pollack roe)

(eating or drinking) to one's heart's content

nobody knows

a certain someone; Mr So-and-so

red earth (i.e. containing cinnabar or minium); vermilion

cinnabar

cinnabar; vermilion

red

sincerity; faithfulness

red and blue

large padded kimono

point below the navel (a focus point for internal meditative techniques)

painting red; vermillion lacquering

erysipelas

red and green

unit symbol

identity matrix; unit matrix

point system; credit system