noun:

• (tobacco) pipe with metal tipped stem - From Khmer "khsier"
• stolen train ride (only paying a local fare each end) ➜ 煙管乗り・煙管乗車

noun / ~の noun:

• inner part of a house (near the kitchen, living room, etc.)
• family matters; household affairs; personal business

noun / ~する noun:

• transliteration ➜ 音写
• phonetic representation of a foreign word using Chinese characters
• reading aloud (for people with impaired vision)

noun:

• high decorated building
• picture-perfect mansion; stately home that looks as if it were from a painting

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

adjectival noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• sticky; syrupy; pulpy - onomatopoeia ➜ とろみ・とろっと

adverb / ~と adverb / ~の noun:

• weakly (of a flame); gently (e.g. boil); simmering - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• dozing off; napping - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• sluggishly; dawdling - onomatopoeia

noun:

• infectious disease which by law a physician must report to the authorities within 24 hours of diagnosis

noun:

• surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies

noun:

• water-filled bamboo tube which clacks against a stone when emptied; device for scaring birds from gardens ➜ 添水

noun:

• red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major) - colloquialism
• fish given to a tournament winner as congratulations - Sumo, Food term

noun:

• being tough on the outside but soft at heart; a faint-hearted person pretending to be brave - four character idiom

noun:

• protective household deity in Tōhoku, appearing as a red-faced child spirit with bobbed hair

noun / ~する noun:

• killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building); plunging to one's death

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to blindstitch the inside of a fold with (equally spaced) threadings (i.e. pulling shoe lacing tight)

noun:

• hakapik; iron hammer and hook mounted on a long wooden pole used for killing seals - From Norwegian

expression:

• what more can one say?; utterly at a loss for words (because of disbelief or disgust)

expression:

• cute, white, oval face (appearing as if someone glued eyes and a nose on an egg) - obscure term

noun:

• Newton's rings (interference pattern seen when a convex lens is placed on another surface)

noun:

• crane fly; daddy longlegs (insect of family Tipulidae) ➜ 大蚊
• a tall, gangly person; string bean - derogatory term

noun:

• crime committed together by two or more people (in which each is known as a co-principal)

noun:

• going along with a joke, etc. at the beginning then pointing out its ridiculousness ➜ 突っ込み

noun:

• Promide (product name for bromides released by Marubell); bromide (publicity photograph of a movie star, entertainer, etc.) ➜ ブロマイド

noun:

• couvade (custom in which a male acts out the physical process of his own child being born) - obscure term

noun:

• couvade (custom in which a male acts out the physical process of his own child being born) - obscure term - From French ➜ 擬娩

noun:

• dried giant elephant ear stem from Higo province (eaten or used as a sex aid) ➜ 蓮芋