(obsolete, Edo period) spoken vernacular Chinese

(rare) Alternative form of おとぎ話

(idiomatic) to break the ice; to broach a subject; to begin a conversation

gossip, small talk

gossip, rumor

海松: a type of seaweed / 水松: a type of seaweed

見る: to see / 看る: to look after, take care of / 観る: to view (flowers, a movie) / 視る: to see (an area struck by a disaster) / 診る: to examine (medical) / 回る: to turn, revolve / 廻る: to turn, revolve

見た: saw

The hiragana syllable み (mi). Its equivalent in katakana is ミ (mi). It is the thirty-second syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ま行い段 (ma-gyō i-dan, “row ma, section i”).

味: (after an i-adjective stem) -ness; used for "quality" of being, as opposed to suffix さ (sa), also translated as -ness, used for "degree" of being