Meanings
Readings
Common Words
scandal; impropriety; misconduct
reluctantly; grudgingly; unwillingly
origin
Archaic
appearance of an auspicious sign that one will receive a divine mandate to becoming emperor
Archaic
birth of an emperor or his ancestors
birthplace; origin; cradle; motherland
omen (usu. good); (auspicious) sign
first two anniversaries of a person's death
disgraceful; inauspicious; ill-omened; ominous; scandalous
birthplace (e.g. of jazz, Buddhism); cradle (e.g. of civilization); place of origin
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