noun:

• board games, card games etc. (played without a computer) - From English "analogue game" ➜ ボードゲーム

noun:

• open-mouthed form (statue with open mouth, symbolizing the "a" half of "aum")

noun:

• low-ranking priest who does manual labour at a temple; male temple employee - Buddhism term ➜ 寺男

noun:

• addendum (to a treaty or contract); annex; annexure; appendix; subsidiary clause
• subordinate clause - Linguistics term

expression:

• know your enemy, know thyself, and you shall not fear a hundred battles - proverb ➜ 敵を知り己を知れば百戦危うからず

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in a mess; to have things scattered here and there

noun:

• (Chinese) jump rope; jumping over a fixed elastic rope ➜ ゴム紐【ゴムひも】

noun:

• hairdresser's room in the residence of the shogun or a noble - archaism

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to prove one's innocence; to clear oneself of a false accusation

noun:

• employer from whom one has received a unofficial offer of employment; prospective employer

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - abbreviation ➜ リクルートラブ

noun:

• employee of an association, society, etc. (but not of government or a corporation)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a sound with one's throat; to purr (cat)

noun:

• paddle shift; paddle shifting (e.g. on a car)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cross the Rubicon; to pass a point of no return

noun:

• cutting off the head
• shaping the flowers and leaves of a plant

noun:

• simmering after steaming - Food term
• simmering (in a small amount of broth); smothering; estouffade - Food term

expression:

• life is but a dream; this too shall pass; everything is transient - proverb ➜ 浮世

expression:

• to study and not think is a waste; learning without thinking is useless - from The Analects of Confucius - proverb

noun:

• karma mandala (in Shingon); three-dimensional mandala with a sculpture of each deity - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• (for a conversation) to wander from the subject; to get off track

expression / adjective:

• depending largely on; playing a large role in; due largely to - as ～によるところが大きい

noun / ~する noun:

• (putting a song etc. on) endless repeat; endless repetition

noun / ~する noun:

• thoroughness; completeness; consistency
• thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

counter:

• counter for occurrences

noun:

• a time; an instance
• inning (baseball); round; game

noun / suffix noun:

• episode; chapter; instalment - colloquialism

noun:

• Hui (people) - abbreviation ➜ 回族
• Islam - abbreviation ➜ 回教