noun:

• navel; belly button
• protrusion or depression in the middle of an object ［へそ・ヘソ］
• center; centre; most important part; main point

~と adverb:

• chattering (teeth) - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• (frozen, worried) stiff - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• rigid (personality, thinking, etc.); inflexible; overly serious - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~の noun:

• voracious (e.g. work, study); without slack or pause - onomatopoeia

noun:

• cervicobrachial syndrome; indicates pain, swelling, weakness and/or numbness in the neck/shoulder region, used when specific diagnosis is not known

noun:

• stain; spot; smudge; blot; smear; blotch
• spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration; freckle - esp. シミ ➜ 肝斑

noun:

• crayfish (esp. Japanese crayfish, Cambaroides japonicus or red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii); crawfish ➜ ニホンザリガニ・アメリカザリガニ

noun:

• trailer (vehicle)
• semi-trailer truck
• (film or video game) trailer

noun:

• debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods) - archaism

noun:

• Lamnidae; family of large, fast-swimming sharks known as mackerel sharks or white sharks

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to conceal one's true nature or feelings; to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite - idiom ➜ 猫をかぶる【ねこをかぶる】

noun:

• variety meat; offal; scrap meat ➜ くず肉【くずにく】
• meat other than pork, beef or poultry (e.g. horsemeat, etc.)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bud; to sprout; to germinate
• to have luck on one's side; to get lucky ➜ 目が出る

noun:

• futon (quilted Japanese-style mattress laid out on the floor)
• round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to knock (someone) to their feet; to knock down
• to send flying; to strike; to fling; to fire
• to drive away (one's sorrows, worries, etc.); to dispel
• to drive at terrific speed; to barrel along

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to stagnate
• to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to be sedimented
• to become sluggish; to become dull; to become stale
• to be delayed; to hesitate; to falter; to stammer; to stumble

noun:

• light-coloured ceramic cooking pan with a lid and short spout
• aluminum saucepan with a handle (usu. wooden) and often with snowflake-style embossed pattern (aluminium) - usu. 雪平鍋

noun:

• fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light
• person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake

noun:

• slipping one's hand beneath the opponent's arm and latching on to the underside of his belt - Sumo term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie on one's back with legs outstretched; to recline
• to get cocky; to be arrogant

noun:

• an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing ➜ 学園祭

noun:

• cards with stanzas of waka written on them
• card-matching game played with these cards

expression:

• I am not going to fall for that trick; that trick won't work on me ➜ その手【そのて】

noun:

• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism

noun:

• Kyoto's children
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext