deterioration

to deteriorate

Kyūjitai form of 実体 (“substance; entity”)

Kazusa Province, an old province of Japan

Rare form of ゼット (zetto, “zed”) (name of the letter Z, z)

fight against / meet head on / contravene / to disagree with

Alternative spelling of 我々 (wareware, “we; us”)

arid / drought / imbibe / the emperor / northwest / dehydrate / paradise

(archaic) The hiragana syllable ゐ (wi). Its equivalent in katakana is ヰ (wi). It is the forty-fifth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is わ行い段 (wa-gyō i-dan, “row wa, section i”).

a Japanese person