noun:

• sprouting; budding

noun / interjection:

• crush (esp. on an imaginary character in manga, etc.); fascination; infatuation - also written 萌ゑ - slang

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• racketeering newspaper; journal that demands money in return for favourable articles

noun / ~する noun:

• (providing) covering fire - four character idiom
• supporting (backing up) someone (in a debate or argument)

noun / ~する noun:

• (engaging in a round of) mutual criticism; repeated attacks on each other - four character idiom

noun:

• sudoku; number puzzle in which digits may only occur once per block - from 数字は独身に限る

~の noun:

• bilingual; in two languages

noun:

• kaki (Japanese persimmon) seed
• spicy baked or fried mochi chips in this shape

noun:

• teacher's license (licence) (required to teach in preschool, elementary or secondary schools)

noun:

• cheese with holes in it (e.g. Swiss, Emmenthal)

noun:

• drink; drinking - abbreviation
• spigot; tap (in a cask, etc.)
• stock market bucketing
• bookmaking

noun:

• crushed sesame seeds boiled in water and chilled like tofu

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun:

• literary form imparting a formal written nuance (with sentences ending in "de aru") ➜ だ体

expression / ~する noun:

• passing (e.g. in football) without looking - From English "no look pass"

noun:

• Pele's hair (threads of volcanic glass formed in mid-air)

noun:

• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
• clan - archaism

noun:

• kuruma prawn (esp. a small one, i.e. less than 10 cm in length) ➜ 車海老

noun:

• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - archaism ➜ 鯤

noun:

• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to hold in one's mouth (without biting, before chewing or swallowing, etc.)

interjection:

• exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen)

noun:

• scolding or threatening with a shout

noun:

• machine for making (white) lines (in sport fields, etc.) - From English "line car"

noun:

• choir singing from music - From English "choral reading"
• reading aloud in a group