noun:

• prime element - Mathematics term

noun:

• wearing a kimono (or awase) without any undergarments on - obscure term

noun:

• makings (of); aptitude (for)
• groundwork; foundation

noun:

• uncolored sketch; line sketch; rough sketch ➜ 素描【そびょう】

noun:

• Chinese classic without reading aids; book without reading aids ➜ 無点本

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (a text) aloud without trying to understand it ➜ 素読【そどく】
• reading a second draft without checking it against the original

noun:

• nudity ➜ 真っ裸

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• stark naked; in one's bare skin
• penniless

noun:

• longstanding desire or goal

noun:

• calf (before it is fattened or used for breeding, usu. referring to 6 to 12-month-olds)

noun:

• a cherished hope

prefix:

• most (emphasis); much; greatly

noun:

• fragments; chips; materials

noun / ~の noun:

• not wearing a mask (in kendo, noh, etc.)
• sober face ➜ 素面【しらふ】
• sobriety ➜ 素面【しらふ】

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• face with no make-up; unpainted face - archaism ➜ 素顔【すがお】

noun:

• suou (ceremonial dress of lower-class samurai)

noun:

• bare noh chanting; vocal-only noh theater performance, with no dancing or instruments; unaccompanied utai ➜ 謡【うたい】

noun:

• fine white noodles

noun:

• (plain) hot water; boiled water

noun:

• usual diet
• vegetarian food; vegetarian diet

noun:

• useless card (in karuta); worthless card ➜ カルタ
• card only worth 1 point (in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• shrill voice
• unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting - usu. 素声 ➜ 平曲
• part of an unaccompanied poem (in noh)

noun:

• raw score; unadjusted score

noun:

• bare thighs; inner thigh
• intercrural sex

noun:

• prime field

noun:

• Spanish jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)

noun:

• ice goby (Leucopsarion petersii)