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fat, fatty; grand, magnificent, excellent
fat, thick; deep (of a voice), thick, sonorous; daring, shameless, brazen, audacious
to put on weight, to gain weight, to grow fat, to get stout
Sun
drum
crown prince; Prince Shōtoku
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai), large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier); guandao, Chinese glaive
ancient times
great mountain, large mountain
boldface, bold-type, thick characters
generous, magnanimous, big-hearted, broad-minded, big-bellied
thigh; buttocks, arse, ass, butt
solar system
solar cell
Pacific Ocean
corpulent, fat, chubby
Pacific War (1941-1945)
- 太夫たゆう
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara; Edo period)
- 太政おおまつりごと
(Japanese) imperial government
- 太閤たいこう
taikō (esp. Toyotomi Hideyoshi), title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son
- 太平たいへい
peace, tranquility, tranquillity; happy-go-lucky
- 太刀打ちたちうち
crossing swords; competing against, contending with, fighting against
- 太めふとめ
plump, somewhat large
- 太極たいきょく
taiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, incl. time and space)
- 太守たいしゅ
viceroy, governor-general
- 太陰たいいん
the Moon; the greater yin (in yin-yang)
- 太后たいこう
empress dowager, queen mother
- 太刀魚たちうお
largehead hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus), scabbard fish, beltfish
- 太平楽たいへいらく
happy-go-lucky
- 太祖たいそ
founder, progenitor, emperor
- 太線ふとせん
heavy line (for emphasis), thick line, underline, border
- 大息おおいき
deep sigh
- 太虚たいきょ
the sky, the heavens; Great Void (in ancient Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi)
- 太刀持ちたちもち
sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword); rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony
- 太物ふともの
drapery (e.g. cotton, hemp, etc., as opposed to silk), cloth
- 太りすぎふとりすぎ
overweight
- 太太タイタイ
wife
- 太刀さばきたちさばき
swordplay, swordsmanship
- 太巻き寿司ふとまきずし
futomaki, thick roll of makizushi
- 太り気味ふとりぎみ
plump, rather overweight