noun:

• Wadō era (708.1.11-715.9.2)

noun:

• Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); Showa era

noun:

• Tengi era (1053.1.11-1058.8.29)

noun:

• Kyūan era (1145.7.22-1151.1.26)

noun:

• double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters) ➜ シングル幅

noun:

• Ninpei era (1151.1.26-1154.10.28)

expression:

• In the beginning was the Word (John 1:1)

noun:

• measure of length corresponding to 6 shaku (approx. 1.82 meters)

noun:

• golden ratio (approx. 1.6180339887) ➜ 黄金比【おうごんひ】

noun:

• pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9) as three chows - Mahjong term

noun:

• primary nursing care; nursing care level (with number between 1 and 5 based on assessed care needs) ➜ 要介護度・要介護認定

noun:

• S; s
• south - abbreviation
• sulfur - abbreviation ➜ 硫黄

prefix:

• nth year in the Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7) - abbreviation ➜ 昭和

noun:

• small - abbreviation
• second - abbreviation
• subject (grammar) - abbreviation ➜ 主語
• sadist; sadistic - abbreviation Antonym: Ｍ
• sister; female partner in a homosexual relationship - abbreviation

noun:

• young child; toddler
• child over 1 but not yet of school age - Law term

noun:

• first number (e.g. issue of a magazine)
• No. 1 type

noun:

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

noun:

• ability; gift; talent; aptitude; genius
• sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

noun:

• knit; knitted fabric; knitted garments
• nit (unit of surface brightness equal to 1 candela per square meter)

noun:

• dawn; daybreak
• Tenmei era (1781.4.2-1789.1.25)

noun:

• the three types of gagaku drums - obscure term
• third division of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am) - archaism

noun:

• auspicious cloud ［けいうん］
• Keiun era (704.5.10-708.1.11); Kyōun era ［慶雲］

noun:

• light; lamp

noun / suffix noun:

• obsolete unit of luminous intensity (approx. 1.0067 candela)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• moment; instant - From Sanskrit "kṣaṇa"

noun:

• kshana; duration of a single mental event (about 1/75 second); shortest possible interval of time - orig. meaning - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• double - sometimes written as "Ｗ" ➜ シングル
• double bed; hotel room with a double bed - abbreviation ➜ ダブルベッド
• double-breasted - abbreviation ➜ ダブルブレスト
• double-cuffed
• double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters) - abbreviation ➜ ダブル幅
• doubles (e.g. in tennis) - abbreviation - Sports term ➜ ダブルス

noun:

• biracial person (esp. half-Japanese); person of mixed parentage - alternative to ハーフ ➜ ハーフ

noun:

• H; h

adjectival noun / noun:

• indecent; lewd; frisky; sexy - from 変態 - usually written using kana alone ➜ 変態【へんたい】

noun / ~する noun:

• sexual intercourse; copulation - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism

prefix:

• nth year in the Heisei era (1989.1.8-) - abbreviation ➜ 平成

noun:

• hydrogen (H) ［Ｈ］ - abbreviation

noun:

• excerpt; extract - obsolete term
• annotation
• shou (unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml)