Keyword
wandering
Info
FrequencyTop 1700-1800
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig1580
Readings
ろう
(87%)
なみ
(8%)
なに
(3%)
Composed of
water drops
good
Used in vocabulary (71 in total)
waste; extravagance
ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer
wave; ups and downs
vagrant; vagabond; tramp
vagrancy; wandering; nomadism
romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance
ronin; lordless samurai
person who has spent X years after graduating high school attempting to get admitted to (a specific) university
juvenile vagrant; street urchin; waif; guttersnipe
student waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination
vagrant; vagabond; drifter
vagrancy; vagabondage; wander around
wandering people; nomadic tribe
Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)
wasteful person; spendthrift
vagrant habits; vagabondism; wanderlust
naniwabushi; variety of sung narrative popular during the Edo period
waves; billows; surge
(leading) a vagabond life; (leading) a wandering existence
wandering; jobless; unemployed
poor or lowly masterless samurai
wasteful habits
whitecaps; white-crested waves; thief
failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later
tsunami; tidal wave
Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)
Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)
romantic school; romanticism
wind and wave; rough seas
romantic (school)
jobless university graduate
romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance
Taishō romanticism (style of art, architecture, etc.)
rōkyoku; naniwabushi; recitation of stories accompanied by samisen
blue waves; blue wave; hair that has lost its shine due to ageing
water's edge; beach; foreshore
rising sea waves from late May to early June
student preparing to re-take initially failed university entrance examinations
failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later
choppy seas; head sea
prewar Japanese adventurer (political activist) in mainland China
water's edge; beach; foreshore
student who is trying to get into their preferred college while already enrolled at another college
smaller waves; lesser waves
tale featuring robbers; kabuki play featuring robbers
giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis)
bigger wave (when there are multiple waves); larger wave
wandering lordless samurai
world of naniwabushi singers
wandering; jobless; unemployed
blue waves; blue wave; hair that has lost its shine due to ageing
offing wave; deep water wave
wake (of a ship); going missing without a trace
Scutellaria indica (species of skullcap)
of the old feeling of naniwa-bushi; marked by the dual themes of obligation and compassion that distinguish the naniwa-bushi ballads
waves in narrow straits
waves in narrow straits
native of Osaka
romantic thought; philosophy of romance
careless; incoherent; sloppy; negligent
neo-romanticism; neoromanticism
aspiring university student who has failed the entrance examinations at least twice
Tsunami Station
wedge sea hare (Dolabella auricularia)
Examples (26 in total)
It's an absolute waste of time to wait any longer.
It seems a waste of time to wait any longer.
I regret that I wasted the money.