a transverse flute used in the gagaku music of Japan

Kyūjitai form of 気流: air current

(nautical) a keel (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull) / Short for 竜骨突起 (ryūkotsu tokki, “keel”) (extension of a bird's sternum)

a place name, such as that of Kiryū City in Gunma Prefecture / a surname

Keelung (a city in Taiwan)

得る, 獲る: to get, to acquire, to gain, to obtain, to win, to catch / 選る, 撰る, 択る: to choose, to select / 彫る, 雕る, 鐫る: to carve, to engrave; to inlay; to drill, to make a hole

有り得ない: impossible

穢多: (historical, offensive) the lowest group in Japan’s caste system during the Edo period

past tense of える (eru) [ichidan]

ahem (clearing of the throat) / hmph! (triumphant)