noun:

• base-stone; plinth stone; stone that serves as a pedestal for a pillar

noun / ~する noun:

• implication (in a crime); involvement
• sitting in a row (in the same seat) - archaism

noun:

• core
• tang (of a sword, etc.)
• middle of a nest of boxes ➜ 入れ子

noun:

• home visitation (esp. a teacher visiting a student's home); home visit; house call

noun:

• a tree as seen in winter (esp. a barren deciduous tree)
• evergreen tree

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

noun:

• breaking up a match on doctor's orders (in boxing, etc.) - From English "doctor stop"
• being ordered by one's doctor to give up such habits as drinking, smoking, overeating, etc.

expression:

• walk a mile in other's shoes to understand their suffering; you can't appreciate others' suffering until you've gone through it yourself; pinch yourself and know others' pain [literal] - proverb

expression / prefix:

• to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ... - with noun+する or noun+をverb

expression:

• it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that
• on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision ➜ 勝手に

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language ➜ 坊ちゃん【ぼっちゃん】
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world ➜ 坊ちゃん【ぼっちゃん】

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• hit
• success
• guess; prediction
• affability; friendliness
• sensation; touch
• bruise (on fruit)
• situation in which a stone or chain of stones may be captured on the next move (in the game of go)
• bite (of a fish on a hook); strike - also written as 魚信 ➜ 魚信

suffix:

• per; each

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

noun:

• gallery; corridor ➜ 廊下・回廊
• art gallery
• upper gallery (in a theatre) ➜ 天井桟敷
• spectators (esp. at a golf tournament)

noun:

• (in the shape of a) mouth
• mouthpiece (of a cigarette)
• manner of speech

noun:

• window with a view of a Japanese mugwort thicket
• poor house; humble house; primitive house

noun:

• one meaning
• primary importance; primary significance; primary consideration
• a reason; a truth

noun / ~の noun:

• illegal residence (in a country); illegal stay; illegal overstaying (of a visa)

expression:

• it is to be regretted that ...; it is a pity that ...; it is unfortunately that ...

suffix / ~の noun:

• -clad - after an article of clothing
• in the midst of - after a -masu stem - usually written using kana alone
• tenths (e.g. wholesale price, as tenths of retail price) - after a number in the ichi, ni counting system
• times (i.e. multiplied by) - after a number in the hitotsu, futatsu counting system
• able-to-seat (of a chair, etc.) - after a number of people

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's wits about one; to be on one's guard; to be wary of trickery - idiom ➜ 眉唾物【まゆつばもの】

expression:

• thank you for the meal; that was a delicious meal; what a wonderful meal

noun:

• killing a would-be avenger
• having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game