noun:

• small fish sliced open and pickled in a mixture of vinegar, sake, and salt - Food term
• seafood pickled in soy (esp. squid) - Food term

noun:

• legendary monster resembling a flying squirrel
• Japanese giant flying squirrel (Petaurista leucogenys) - orig. meaning ➜ ムササビ
• Japanese dish prepared with cooked fish and chicken - esp. 野衾 - Food term

expression:

• like it or not; like or not like - usu. 〜...ない, etc. ➜ 好き嫌い【すききらい】

noun:

• tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; non-Buddhist - Buddhism term Antonym: 内道
• heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; heresy; heretic
• demon; fiend; devil; brute; bad person - derogatory term
• type of fish one did not intend to catch

noun:

• Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus)
• comb goby (Ctenotrypauchen microcephalus)
• Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae) ➜ 赤魚鯛
• Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis) ➜ 石斑魚
• any edible red saltwater fish

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• (feeling a chill or shiver) suddenly; (feeling) chilly; chillily - usu. ひやりとする
• with a sudden sense of dread (or fear, etc.); (being) suddenly (afraid, frightened, etc.); suddenly (breaking out in a cold sweat); frighteningly - usu. ひやりとする

conjunction:

• but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; also; as well

particle:

• even
• however; no matter how; even if; even though
• ... or something
• either ... or ...; neither ... nor ... - as 〜でも〜でも

prefix:

• pseudo-; quack; in-name-only - before an occupation, etc.
• for lack of anything better to do - before an occupation, etc. ➜ でもしか

noun:

• white-freckled surgeonfish (Acanthurus maculiceps, species of tang from the Indo-West Pacific); spot-face surgeon; pale-lined surgeonfish; yellow-freckled surgeon fish

noun:

• different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes - four character idiom ➜ 同工異曲【どうこういきょく】

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of ➜ あんな・こんな・どんな

noun / ~する noun:

• pitching a tent; putting up a shack or tent (e.g. a circus tent)

noun:

• (theater, circus, etc.) tent or shack

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ そんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ そんな

noun:

• main fermenting mash (in production of sake or soy sauce); unrefined sake or soy sauce

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• unrefined (sake, soy sauce, etc.); rough

noun:

• palace room for government officials or ladies in waiting
• room inside a palace or private estate allocated to employees; person living in such a room
• boarding house for trainee administrators (Ritsuryo period) ➜ 大学寮

noun:

• person in the online community who seeks to identify others from the information they post online, or who tries to identify places and objects that appear in comics or games - derogatory term - slang

noun:

• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being)

noun:

• enshrinement of two or more deities in one building of a shrine; shrine building dedicated to two or more deities

noun:

• ruby - esp. ルビー
• ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material) - esp. ルビ
• Ruby (programming language) ［ルビー］ - IT term

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• drinking like a fish and eat like a horse; eating mountains of food and drink oceans of liquor - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to move (house); to transfer (department)
• to change the target of interest or concern
• to elapse (passage of time)
• to be permeated by a colour or scent
• to be infected; to be contagious; to spread (as in fire) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• adoration which is performed three times or repeatedly; act of worship which is performed three times or repeatedly ➜ 三拝

adjective:

• smelling of fish; fishy; smelling of blood; bloody
• degenerate (of a monk); depraved; corrupt; fallen
• worldly; mundane; secular; common; ordinary
• fishy; suspicious; questionable

noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame [literal] - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame ➜ 閉月羞花・沈魚落雁