noun:

• transferring a shintai in a portable shrine, e.g. to another shrine or to a ceremony - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun:

• practical language; language used for day-to-day activity (in contrast to official languages); facility language

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start with the looks; to start (at the wrong end) by focusing on the superficial

noun:

• spices; condiments; seasoning
• adjuvant (in Chinese medicine); addition of an adjuvant - Medicine term
• meat, fish, vegetables, etc. added to rice or udon (e.g to make gomoku meshi) - Kansai dialect ➜ 五目飯

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa) ➜ 唐行き【からゆき】

noun:

• band

~する noun:

• to perform in a band; to create a (pop) band

noun:

• The Bund (Shanghai, China)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be commonly referred to as; as people say; as the saying is; they say ➜ 所謂【いわゆる】

expression / noun:

• my spouse (esp. used to refer to one's wife); my wife; my husband

noun / ~する noun:

• letter (e.g. of complaint); letter to the editor; letter from a reader
• contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.) ➜ 投稿

adjective:

• nonexistent; not being (there) ➜ 亡い
• unpossessed; unowned; not had
• unique ➜ またとない
• not; impossible; won't happen - as ...ことがない, etc.; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility

auxiliary adjective:

• not ... - after the ren'youkei form of an adjective ➜ ない
• to not be...; to have not ... - after the -te form of a verb

noun / adverb:

• (being) about to start out; (being) about to leave - usu. 出掛けに, etc. ➜ お出掛け
• having just left; (being) on the way

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• place where things are sold; point of sale; POS; sales floor; counter (in shop)

noun:

• favorable time to sell; good time to sell ➜ 売り時・買い場

noun:

• hole in the curtains to allow someone backstage to see the audience (in kabuki theatre) - obscure term
• public observation; feel of being watched; casual observers - obscure term ➜ 人目

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a well-defined character (of video game, anime, etc. character); to stand out as a character

noun / ~する noun:

• immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the tape (at the finishing line); to breast the tape

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home ➜ 返す

expression / ~の noun:

• to that extent; to that degree; that much; that many ➜ あれ程【あれほど】

ichidan verb:

• to be too numerous; to be too much ➜ 少なすぎる

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be below the cost; to sell below cost

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to expand a market; to find a new market

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to go into labor; to go into labour

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to be completely satisfied; to be completely contented

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to welter in blood; to be covered in blood