noun:

• happy life partnership; living faithfully together till death ［かいろうどうけつ］ - four character idiom
• Venus's flower basket (Euplectella aspergillum) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• birdlime
• Nepal holly (Ilex integra) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 黐の木

noun:

• kalpa (eon, aeon) ［こう・ごう］ - Buddhism term
• ko (in go); position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones - usu. コウ - usually written using kana alone

~たる adjective / ~の noun:

• thunderous; rumbling ［ごうごう］

~と adverb:

• thunderously; rumblingly - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• pāramitā; perfection; perfection of Buddhist practices or attaining enlightenment ［はらみつ］ - Buddhism term ➜ 波羅蜜多
• jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• thicket; bush; grove; scrub ［やぶ］
• (medical) quack - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 藪医者【やぶいしゃ】

noun:

• shaft of an arrow (usu. made of thin bamboo)
• cornetfish - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• confusion; complications

suffix noun:

• being gripped by strong feelings; fit (e.g. of anger); moment (e.g. of frustration) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness (in Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• striking someone's wrist with one's index and middle finger - esp. しっぺ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• obstacle to Buddhist practice
• penis - vulgar - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• mud pie
• seed ball ("nature farming" technique)
• deer truffle (Elaphomyces granulatus); false truffle - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• floating weed
• greater duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) - usually written using kana alone

~の noun:

• precarious; unstable

noun:

• flagstaff; flagpole
• arabis (any plant of genus Arabis, esp. tower mustard, Arabis glabra); rock cress - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• riverside willow (esp. rosegold pussy willow, Salix gracilistyla) ➜ 猫柳
• Salix gilgiana (species of willow) ［川柳］ - usually written using kana alone
• high-quality coarse tea ［川柳］

noun:

• knight - Shōgi term
• keima (in go); knight's move; stone placed at a knight's jump from another stone of the same color - usually written using kana alone

adjectival noun / noun:

• harsh; severe (e.g. criticism, verbal attack) ➜ 味噌糞

noun:

• sweeping denunciation - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• red eyes; bloodshot eyes
• red-eye ➜ 赤目現象
• red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 赤目魚
• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

noun:

• lion mask ［ししがしら］
• Japanese deer fern (Blechnum nipponicum) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Mt. Koya missionary (usu. low-ranking monks)
• Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 田鼈

noun:

• ladle; dipper ［しゃく］
• wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris); cow parsley; keck; Queen Anne's lace - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• powderized green laver ➜ 青海苔
• blue-green algae (esp. Microcystis spp.); cyanobacteria - usually written using kana alone
• algal bloom; water bloom ➜ 水の華

noun:

• white dragon tile - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• shaved pubic area; person with little or no pubic hair - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• burnt rice; scorched rice; crispy rice at bottom of cooking pan
• woman who hangs out with gay men - usually written using kana alone

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• one cup after another; cup by cup - four character idiom
• to the limit; to the fullest extent; absolutely the limit; the best one can do; breaking even - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• southern sky ➜ 北天
• heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica); nandina - usually written using kana alone