noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom ➜ 輪廻転生

noun:

• good thing; strong point
• good family; prestigious school
• the right moment

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• utter; extreme

adverbial noun:

• at (the) best; at most

noun:

• Suiko period (i.e. the Asuka period, esp. under the reign of Empress Suiko, approx. 592-628 CE)

noun:

• Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

noun:

• using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• sliteye shark (Loxodon macrorhinus, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to smash; to crush; to flatten
• to shut down; to put out of business; to force (a company) to close up shop
• to wreck; to break; to block; to thwart
• to butcher; to slaughter; to kill (livestock, for food)
• to kill (time); to while away (the time)
• to waste (e.g. talents)

noun / ~する noun:

• participation in a war; going to war
• "taking part in a competition or contest" [figurative]

noun:

• neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
• all sides; frontiers (of a country)
• four sides (of a shape)

noun / ~する noun:

• capture; seizure
• military capture of a foreign vessel; making a prize of - Law term

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• lacking enough gravity for (a position, task); being an insignificant figure for (a position) - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a meal (before doing something); to fortify oneself with a meal

noun:

• (in P2P networks) a program that monitors (and adjusts) activity of a P2P program - colloquialism - IT term ➜ モニター

noun:

• auxiliary shrine (dedicated to a deity close-related to that of a main shrine) ➜ 本社

noun:

• tatami room - polite language ➜ 座敷
• dinner party in a tatami room with a geisha or maiko ➜ 座敷

noun:

• young boy or girl being trained as a geisha or as a kabuki actor

~と adverb:

• vacantly; blankly; absentmindedly - onomatopoeia
• openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; gaping; flabbergasted - onomatopoeia
• with a whack; with a thump - onomatopoeia

noun:

• tunnel

~する noun:

• to tunnel (through a potential barrier) - Physics term

noun / ~する noun:

• letting a grounder go through one's legs - Baseball term

noun / ~する noun:

• being elected
• being selected (to win a prize, etc.)
• winning (in a lottery, raffle, etc.) ➜ 当籤

noun:

• text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter)
• this passage; this sentence

noun / ~の noun:

• pericarp (ripened ovary wall forming part of a fruit)
• skin (of a fruit); peel; rind

noun / ~する noun:

• kun'yomi (native Japanese reading of a kanji)
• reading a Chinese text (kanbun) in Japanese

noun:

• sign of a ship (e.g. through fog, silhouette, etc.); outline of a ship