a surname

Alternative form of バチカン

in a flash, in an instant

summer / Xia dynasty

(Buddhism) summer according to the lunisolar calendar; the ninety days starting from the sixteenth day of the fourth month until the fifteenth day of the seventh month

the Xia dynasty (first dynasty of China) / Short for 大夏 (Daika): Xia, one of the Sixteen Kingdoms / Short for 西夏 (Seika): Western Xia, an empire during the Song dynasty / a surname

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]