noun:

• three sun (ca. 9.1 cm) ➜ 寸【すん】
• something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun)
• stall-keeper; huckster; hawker ➜ 的屋
• prostitute of the lowest rank - archaism

expression:

• fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing - idiom

noun:

• bai zhi (Chinese name for angelica species Angelica dahurica); traditional Chinese cure made from the root of this plant ➜ 鎧草
• Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed) ➜ 花独活

noun:

• evening moon; moon that can only be seen in the early hours of the night (esp. from the 2nd to the 7th of the eight month) ➜ 夕月

noun:

• lamenting the passing of spring; lamenting the passing of one's youth

noun:

• 34th of the sexagenary cycle; thirty-fourth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla)
• Smilax china (species of sarsaparilla) - colloquialism ➜ 猿捕茨

expression:

• the law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction - Buddhism term

noun:

• rate of increase (e.g. prices); rate of climb (e.g. aircraft)

noun:

• risk ratio; percentage of risk; hazard rate
• significance level; level of significance

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• middle way; (golden) mean; moderation; middle path

noun:

• the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

noun:

• world of tathata; "the pure and absolute truth of the tathata is as wide as the sea" [figurative] - Buddhism term

noun:

• deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades); deviation; T-score; standard score

noun:

• young underground market (the underground economy in goods and services, involving lots of barter and buying and selling of secondhand goods)

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment) - Buddhism term

noun:

• drumming in the streets to announce a tournament - Sumo term
• announcing an event by walking around in the streets beating a drum; drum used to announce an event by walking around in the streets

noun:

• someone unable to fulfil their shopping needs (esp. in areas of depopulation or due to lack of transport); people who have been cut off from the retail sector; shopping refugee [literal]

expression:

• honey is sweet, but the bee stings; I would like to taste fugu, but I value my life [literal]; hesitating from doing something because of fear of consequences - proverb ➜ フグ

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to disappear

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to cause to disappear; to get rid of
• (of time) to pass; to while away

noun:

• disappearance of snow (i.e. due to melting) - obscure term
• lack of snow (i.e. snow not falling) - obscure term

noun:

• member of National Diet; Diet member; member of parliament; MP

noun:

• job offer; letter of appointment; appointment letter; notification of appointment

noun:

• Blood Pond; pool of blood; pond of blood (in hell) - Buddhism term