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Harry Potter Book Terms [Vocab]

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Spells, Potions, Creatures, Locations, School Terms, and more – basic terminology you need to be able to read Harry Potter books in Japanese. This deck focuses on book-specific terminology to complement other more general decks.

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Food and Daily Life

Wizard-specific daily life terms

食事（しょくじ）

meal, dinner, diet

料理（りょうり）

cooking, cookery, cuisine

食器（しょっき）

調理（ちょうり）

cooking, food preparation

保存（ほぞん）

preservation, conservation, storage, saving (e.g. to disk), maintenance

清掃（せいそう）

cleaning, clean-up, garbage collection, scavenging

洗濯（せんたく）

washing, laundry

修理（しゅうり）

repairing, mending, servicing

整理（せいり）

sorting, arrangement, organization, putting in order, adjustment, regulation, liquidation, settlement, consolidation, clearance (e.g. debt), paying off, retrenchment, curtailment, cutting down, disposal

装飾（そうしょく）

照明（しょうめい）

illumination, lighting

暖房（だんぼう）

冷房（れいぼう）

cooling, air-conditioning

遊（あそ）び

眠（ねむ）り

sleep, sleeping, inactivity, death

目覚（めざ）め

朝（あさ）

昼（ひる）

夜（よる）

晩（ばん）

夕（ゆう）

Transportation

Magical movement and travel

テレポート

teleport, , teleportation

飛（ひ）

転（くるり）

turning around (once), suddenly, abruptly, completely (wrapped in something), quickly (unwrapping something), beautiful, round (eyes), flail (for threshing grain)

運（うん）

歩（ふ）

走（そう）

流（りゅう）

fashion, way, style, manner, school (of thought), class, rank, rate

回（かい）

counter for occurrences, a time, an instance, inning (baseball), round, game, episode, chapter, installment, Hui (people), Islam

出（で）

coming out, going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon), attending (work), appearing (on stage), one's turn to go on, start, beginning, origins, background, person (or item) originating from ..., graduate of ..., native of ..., member of ... (lineage), architectural member that projects outward, highest point of the stern of a ship, amount (comprising something), amount of time or effort required to do something

入（しお）

counter for soakings (of fabric in a dye)

来（らい）

next (year, etc.), since (last month, etc.)

越（えつ）

Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE)

超（ちょう）

super-, ultra-, hyper-, very, really, over (after a number or counter), more than

通（つう）

connoisseur, authority, counter for letters, notes, documents, etc.

過（か）

surplus-, excess-, over-

Magical Places

Locations in the wizarding world

横（よこ）

horizontal (as opposed to vertical), lying down, the same level (social standing)

通（とお）り

avenue, street, way, road, coming and going, street traffic, flow (of water, air, etc.), transmission (of sound), reach (e.g. of voice), fame, reputation, popularity, the same status or way, as (e.g. as expected, as I said), understanding, comprehension, counter for sets of things, counter for methods, ways, types

店（みせ）

store, shop, establishment, restaurant

宿（やど）

lodging, inn, hotel, house, home, dwelling, home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

市場（いちば）

(town) market, (the) marketplace

庁（ちょう）

government office, agency, board

病院（びょういん）

牢（ろう）

prison, jail, gaol

監獄, かんごく

台（だい）

stand, rack, table, bench, podium, pedestal, platform, stage, support, holder, counter for machines, incl. vehicles, setting (e.g. in jewellery), level (e.g. price level), range (e.g. after physical units), period (of time, e.g. a decade of one's life), elevated area, viewing platform, dish tray, meal, tall building, tower

広場（ひろば）

plaza, (public) square, piazza, forum, open space

路地（ろじ）

alley, alleyway, lane, bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof), open field, outdoors (non-greenhouse cultivation of crops), teahouse garden, path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)

駅（えき）

場（ば）

place, spot, space, field, discipline, sphere, realm, occasion, situation, scene (of a play, movie, etc.), session (of the stock market), area in which cards are laid out (in a card game), round (i.e. east, south, etc.), field, field (gestalt psychology)

館（かん）

house, hall, building

院（いん）

house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.)

書店（しょてん）

bookshop, bookstore

酒場（さかば）

茶店（ちゃみせ）

路（じ）

Magical Communication

Ways wizards communicate

文（ぶん）

sentence, composition, text, writings, the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts), academia, literature

字（じ）

character (i.e. kanji), hand-writing, penmanship, the word

言（げん）

word, remark, statement

音（おと）

sound, noise, report, note, fame, Chinese-derived character reading

声（こえ）

放送（ほうそう）

broadcast, broadcasting

会話（かいわ）

伝言（つてこと）

verbal message, word (from someone), rumour, rumor

告知（こくち）

notice, announcement

警告（けいこく）

warning, advice

合図（あいず）

sign, signal, cue

暗号（あんごう）

code, password, cipher

契約（けいやく）

contract, compact, agreement

誓約（せいやく）

oath, vow, pledge, covenant

話（はなし）

talk, speech, chat, story, conversation

見（み）

looking, viewing

Magical Measurements

Units and quantities in magic

持続時間（じぞくじかん）

重（え）

軽（けい）

light (e.g. aircraft, truck)

高（たか）

quantity, amount, volume, number, amount of money

低（てい）

low (level, value, price, etc.)

短（たん）

fault, defect, weak point

狭（せ）

narrowness, being cramped, being almost full

強（きょう）

a little over, a little more than

弱（じゃく）

little less than, fewer than, under, weakness, the weak

熱（ねつ）

heat, fever, temperature, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, mania, craze, rage

冷（れい）

硬（こう）

軟（なん）

粗（あら）

remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting), flaw (esp. of a person), fault, defect, rice chaff, rough, crude, raw, natural, wild

密（みつ）

dense, thick, crowded

量（りょう）

quantity, amount, volume, portion (of food)

度（ど）

degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.)

数（かず）

値（あたい）

price, cost, value, worth, merit, value, count, number, variable (computer programming, programing)

額（がく）

picture (framed), amount or sum (of money)

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