noun:

• adductor muscle ➜ 閉殻筋
• adductor muscle of a bivalve (e.g. scallop, etc.) - Food term

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to spoil; to ruin; to destroy; to make a mess of

expression / adjective:

• important; having a high status; having standing; exalted; of high station

noun:

• at the very beginning of a book; The book opens with ... - four character idiom

adverbial noun:

• at the very beginning of a book; The book opens with ... - four character idiom

noun / adverb:

• grudge of ten years' standing; harbouring a grudge for many years - four character idiom

noun:

• thread knot (end of the thread tied up to a knot)

noun:

• four concealed triplets (yakuman); four concealed three-of-a-kinds - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 暗刻【アンコー】・役満

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take for granted; to assume
• to pretend (to be); to act as if one were ...; to fancy oneself as being
• to do intentionally; to persist in doing

noun:

• star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
• offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
• star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
• circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
• bullseye
• one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
• small dot; spot
• point; score - Sumo term

noun:

• direction; way - also ほう
• person; lady; gentleman - honorific language

noun / suffix noun:

• method of; manner of; way of

suffix noun:

• care of ...
• person in charge of ... - also がた
• side (e.g. "on my mother's side") - also がた

noun:

• guest room (at a hotel); guest cabin (on a boat); passenger cabin (on a plane)
• drawing room

noun:

• before a Buddha or a mortuary tablet ➜ 仏前
• offerings made to Buddha or placed on a mortuary tablet

adjectival noun:

• rough
• casual (clothing)

noun:

• rough (of a golf course)
• rough sketch; rough draft
• ruff

noun:

• holy mother; birth mother of a holy man (or woman)
• Virgin Mary

noun:

• year of a person's death
• one's age at death ➜ 享年

noun:

• person given as a reference; witness
• potential suspect; person of interest
• witness

ichidan verb:

• to smell of; to give off a scent; to hint at; to intimate

noun:

• net fishing
• fisherman's throw (resembling the casting of a fishing net) - Sumo term

noun:

• feeling or atmosphere or mood of a painting; the mood to paint

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to admire a person's courage; to approve of someone's ambition

noun:

• great strength and energy (of a mighty hero); Herculean strength and vitality - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• precocity (esp. of a young girl); acting grown up ［おしゃま］

noun:

• precocious young girl

noun:

• holding one's chopsticks in one's mouth (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• ground squirrel (esp. a ground squirrel of North America or Africa)