to startle; to surprise; to astonish

(rare) cloth woven of hemp or ramie, similar to linen

peek-a-boo

The hiragana syllable ま (ma). Its equivalent in katakana is マ (ma). It is the thirty-first syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ま行あ段 (ma-gyō a-dan, “row ma, section a”).

間: space; room

目: prefixal bound form of め (me, “eye”)

真: the truth, reality, genuineness

真: real, genuine / 真: pure, unadulterated / 真: definitely, certainly, exactly, precisely, directly / 真: true, real, main (appended to words for animals or plants to indicate the representative type)

言霊: the mystical force inherent in language

鬱気: gloomy