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河
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Buddhism
Sanzu River (Japanese Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx); River of Three Crossings
Examples
僕はまだ三途の川を見たくはない。
I still don't wish to see the Styx.
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Common noun; Buddhism
Children's Limbo
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Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
futile; unrewarding
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large-scale, long-running TV series (esp. of period pieces produced by NHK)
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Suez Canal
Examples
スエズ運河とパナマ運河は国際管理化におくべきでしょうか。
Should the Suez and Panama Canals be internationalized?
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period of poor employment opportunities; job drought; employment ice age
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Idiomatic expression
to try a different venue (for drinking, socializing, etc.); to go somewhere else
Examples
ちょいとここらで河岸をかえましょうや。
Let's get out of here.
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class A river; specified waterways of special importance protected by the government
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Yojijukugo
being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one)
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know-it-all manner
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Astronomy
supercluster of galaxies
Examples
天文学者が局部超銀河団の存在を推定しました。
Astronomers inferred the existence of a local supercluster.
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ice age; glacial period
Examples
剣歯虎が絶滅したのは氷河時代であった。
It was during the ice age that the saber-toothed tiger became extinct.
