noun:

• simplified form (of a kanji); any of 22 simplified non-joyo kanji variants commonly used in print ➜ 常用漢字

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

noun:

• yellow cave goby (Trimma taylori, species found in Indo-Pacific waters); cave dwarfgoby; yellow-speckled pygmy-goby

noun:

• night mooring (for a boat) ➜ 夜泊
• sleeping away for the night (esp. in a red light district)

noun:

• spring dust [literal]; frost and snow that's blown like dust in the air by the spring wind

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to happen to be available; to have on hand; to have in stock ➜ あり合わせる

noun:

• alternative name; alternate name
• assumed name of a customer in a brothel (for anonymity)
• stage name

noun:

• first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month) ➜ 閉炉

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 企業短期経済観測調査【きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 小正月・元宵

noun:

• playing card tax; tax on playing cards, mahjong sets, domino sets, etc. (abolished in 1989)

noun / ~の noun:

• crowd of people; great number of people

adverbial noun:

• in great numbers

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance

noun / ~の noun:

• pedagogy; pedagogics; education (esp. in the context of the study of education)

noun:

• being something of an artist; having something of the artist in one - four character idiom

noun:

• three-game match; three-bout contest; a rubber (in a card game) - four character idiom

noun:

• being something of a politician; having something of the politician in one - four character idiom

expression:

• room to breathe (usually in the negative as "no room to breathe") ➜ 立錐の余地もない

noun / ~する noun:

• improvement in one's luck; changing one's luck ➜ 縁起直し

expression:

• then; in that case; considering; if that is the case; if so

expression:

• by mere chance; by some chance; somehow or other; in some way

noun:

• seasonal flowers arranged for a tea ceremony; flowers in a tea room

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a move; to move a piece (e.g. in shogi)