The King in Yellow — Page 1

Vocabulary

地獄

jigoku — Hell; a place of suffering and punishment

野

no — Field, plain, or wilderness area

の

no — Possessive or attributive particle linking nouns

聖母

seibo — Holy Mother; the Virgin Mary

通り

toori — Street, avenue; also means 'as expected'

通行止め

tsuukoudome — Road closure; passage prohibited or blocked

道

michi — Road, path, or way forward

岸辺

kishibe — Shoreline, riverbank, or water's edge

に

ni — Particle indicating direction, location, or indirect object

沿い

soi — Along; following the length of something

て

te — Conjunctive particle connecting sequential actions

雲

kumo — Cloud; mass of water vapor in the sky

波

nami — Wave; undulating movement of water

砕け

kudake — Breaks apart, shatters, or crashes (waves)

双子

futago — Twins; two siblings born at the same time

太陽

taiyou — The sun; the star at the center of our solar system

は

wa — Topic marker particle indicating the subject of discussion

湖

mizuumi — Lake; a large body of inland water

彼方

kanata — Yonder, far away, in the distant beyond

沈み

shizumi — Sinking, setting (as the sun), submerging

影

kage — Shadow, silhouette, or reflected image

伸び

nobi — Stretching, extending, or growing longer

ゆく

yuku — To go; (literary) to proceed or pass on

黒き

kuroki — Black (literary/archaic adjectival form)

星

hoshi — Star; a luminous celestial body in the sky

昇る

noboru — To rise, ascend (sun, moon, or star)

夜

yoru — Night; the period of darkness after sunset

奇妙

kimyou — Strange, peculiar, or mysteriously unusual

して

shite — Conjunctive form of する; doing and then

な

na — Adjectival particle; also negative imperative

月々

tsukizuki — Each month; the moons (plural, poetic usage)

が

ga — Subject marker particle; also conjunctive 'but'

空

sora — Sky; the expanse of atmosphere above the earth

を

wo — Object marker particle indicating the direct object

巡り

meguri — Circling, revolving, traveling around something

され

sare — Passive or humble form of する; being done

なお

nao — Still, yet, even more, furthermore

なる

naru — To become; (literary) being, existing as

失わ

ushinawa — Lost, deprived of (stem of 失う ushinau)

れ

re — Passive auxiliary verb suffix; being acted upon

歌う

utau — To sing; to perform a song vocally

で

de — Particle indicating location of action or means

あろう

arou — Probably is; volitional or presumptive form of ある

歌

uta — Song, poem, or musical vocal composition

も

mo — Also, too, even; additive or inclusive particle

王

ou — King; a male monarch or ruler

衣

koromo — Garment, robe, or clothing (literary usage)

断片

danpen — Fragment, piece, or scrap of something broken

はためく

hatameku — To flap or flutter in the wind

場所

basho — Place, location, or spot

誰

dare — Who; interrogative pronoun asking a person's identity

聞か

kika — Hears, listens (stem of 聞く kiku)

ず

zu — Classical negative suffix meaning 'without doing'

消え

kie — Disappears, vanishes, fades away

ん

n — Colloquial negative or sentence-final softening particle

薄暗き

usuguraki — Dim, dusky, faintly dark (literary adjective form)

わが

waga — My, our (literary/formal first-person possessive)

魂

tamashii — Soul, spirit, or inner essence of a being

よ

yo — Sentence-final particle for emphasis or address

声

koe — Voice; sound produced by speaking or singing

汝

nanji — Thou, you (archaic second-person singular pronoun)

歌わ

utawa — Sing (negative stem of 歌う utau)

死ね

shine — Die! (imperative form of 死ぬ shinu)

流さ

nagasa — Shed, let flow (stem of 流す nagasu)

涙

namida — Tears; drops of liquid shed when crying

乾き

kawaki — Drying up, becoming dry or parched

果て

hate — End, extremity; to be exhausted or finished

ごとく

gotoku — Like, as if, in the manner of (classical)

おける

okeru — Located in, pertaining to (literary における)

第

dai — Ordinal number prefix meaning 'number' or 'no.'

一

ichi — One; the first numeral

幕

maku — Act of a play; also a curtain or act division

二

ni — Two; the second numeral

場

ba — Scene in a play; place or setting