List: euphemistic
Words or phrases that are used to substitute for harsh or unpleasant terms, often to make them more socially acceptable or less offensive.
gairaigo waseigo English origin euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- (female) pubic hair
euphemistic noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb physiology
- suicide
- apoptosis
historical term euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- comfort woman, prostitute who worked in military brothels, esp. one forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII
noun noun (generic) euphemistic
- secret garden, private garden
- female genitalia
jocular, humorous term euphemistic expression noun noun (generic)
- fly (on trousers), flies, zipper
rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) euphemistic
- secret place, hidden place
- female genitalia
- the underworld, the other world
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun colloquial euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- there, over there, that place, yonder, you-know-where
- genitals, private parts, nether regions
- that far, that much, that point
colloquial euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- shotgun wedding
gairaigo waseigo English origin euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- prostitution (in the guise of a massage service)
noun noun (generic) physics euphemistic colloquial
- G, g
- gram
- (acceleration due to) gravity
- giga-
- gravitational constant
- gauss
- general audience (film certificate)
- cockroach
- destination (on a GPS)
- group