noun:

• normal weight obesity; hidden obesity; being thin while having an unhealthily high body fat percentage

noun:

• former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer; retired public prosecutor - abbreviation - colloquialism

noun:

• former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer; prosecutor-turned-lawyer - colloquialism

noun:

• the path that one should follow as a human being; the path of benevolence

noun / ~する noun:

• lengthening a vowel (e.g. as in Kansai dialect) - Linguistics term ➜ 短呼

noun:

• long sound (esp. long vowel) - Linguistics term

noun:

• young female TV announcer (who also frequently functions as a television talent doing on-location fluff pieces for variety shows) - abbreviation ➜ アナウンサー

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lose weight; to become thin; to wither away

noun:

• thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee

noun:

• thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee

expression / ichidan verb:

• to do as one wishes; to suit one's convenience
• to happen as one expects

noun:

• narrow, long, and thin pieces of wood strung together that were used to write on in ancient times ➜ 竹簡

adverb:

• freely; readily; cheerfully; without any sense of hesitation; without reserve; without treating it as a big deal; casually

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to try to ...; to be about to do ... - after the volitional form of verb
• to decide to ... - after the dictionary form of verb
• to take as; to treat as; to regard as
• to use for
• to suppose that (such) is the case; to assume
• to decide that; to think that
• to make into; to change into
• to feel (e.g. after sound symbolism or psychological experience word); to look; to feel like
• to intend; to have the intention - with を目的

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• half-year (sometimes esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment) ➜ 一季
• half of a season

noun:

• shadow cast by Mount Fuji; image of Mount Fuji as reflected in a lake, etc.

noun:

• picture painted by hand; painting (as opposed to a woodblock print); original painting; original drawing

noun:

• writing some characters (esp. complex kanji) of a compound as kana instead of kanji - e.g. しょう油, 宝くじ

noun:

• deer raised upon the grounds of a shrine (who serve as messengers of the gods)

noun:

• mind-made body; body as born out of a certain kind of intent or mindfulness - Buddhism term

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to become thin; to fade; to grow pale

godan ~く verb:

• to do in advance; to do as a preparation - contraction of ～しておく - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• raid; military attack by a mobile unit; hit-and-run attack; search-and-kill mission; search-and-destroy mission; military action without a predetermined target; attacking the enemy or assisting allies as the opportunity arises

noun:

• shortstop; short - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ 遊撃手

noun:

• young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony)
• young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute)
• younger partner in a homosexual relationship ➜ 念者【ねんしゃ】

conjunction:

• now that it is as such; since it is as such

noun / ~する noun:

• massage (esp. anma, a traditional form of Japanese massage)

noun:

• masseur; masseuse; massager - sensitive
• blind person (as many were traditionally massagers) - archaism - colloquialism