かいじゅう

See also: かいしゅう, がいしゅう, and がいじゅう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of かいじゅう – see the following entries.

【怪獣】 [noun] monster

【海獣】 [noun] marine mammal

【懐柔】 [noun] placation and winning over [verb] to placate and win over

【晦渋】 [noun] abstruseness, obscurity, opaqueness [adjective] difficult to understand, abstruse, obscure, opaque

(This term, かいじゅう (kaijū), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)