Meanings
Readings
Common Words
to clash; to collide; to conflict; to coincide
to meet (by chance); to come across; to run into
Colloquial
to hit and break open; to crush; to smash
to hull (rice, barley, etc.); to pound (rice); to polish (rice); to stamp (ore)
freshly pounded (rice cake); fresh from the mortar
Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea)
click beetle; skipjack (beetle of family Elateridae)
obsequious person
rice polishing (removing the shell of brown rice to leave white rice)
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