noun:

• pao cai; pow tsai; pickled vegetable, usu. cabbage, found in Szechuan cuisine - From Chinese

noun:

• cross-cut sawtooth oak charcoal (resembling chrysanthemum flowers, and used in tea ceremonies)

noun:

• Wotan (god in German and Anglo-Saxon mythology); Wodan ➜ オーディン

noun:

• 1585 edict by Toyotomi Hideyoshi which banned war between feudal lords in Japan

noun:

• yu; free reed wind instrument used in ancient China and Nara period Japan

expression / noun:

• video game in which the player is likely to die frequently - slang ➜ ゲー

noun:

• pinfall; pinning an opponent's shoulders to the ground (e.g. in wrestling)

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to the previous page (in an internet browser) - colloquialism - From English "browser back"

noun:

• interpenetration of spirit between the poet and nature in a haiku

noun:

• nutmeg (soccer); hitting a ball through the legs (e.g. in tennis) - slang - Sports term

expression:

• you can make friends anywhere; not even in hell is everyone an ogre [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• falling asleep (in one's clothes); lying down to nap; crashing out ➜ うたた寝【うたたね】

noun:

• foreign-body sensation (e.g.contact lens, something stuck in one's throat)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together
• to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody - idiom

noun:

• striking sparks with flint and steel or by rubbing sticks together (usu. to start a fire); fire lit by sparks from flint and steel, etc. ➜ 鑽る
• Shinto fire-purification ceremony - Shintō term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be unusual (of a person or of a thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be crazy; to be eccentric; to be different - sometimes derogatory ➜ 変わる【かわる】

noun / ~の noun:

• red and white; colours for festive or auspicious occasions (colors)

noun:

• two teams; two groups
• Red and White singing contest; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK) - abbreviation ➜ 紅白歌合戦【こうはくうたがっせん】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to mark off; to cut off - esp. 区切る
• to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud) - esp. 句切る

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to follow suit; to imitate or follow someone blindly
• to ride on someone's back; to ride someone's coattails; to take advantage (e.g. of another's popularity)

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. visiting a shrine or temple a hundred times for prayer, walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time) ➜ 御百度

noun:

• free and unbiased; fair and just; ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong; calling spade a spade - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• lively; full of spirit; energetic; vigorous; vital; spirited
• healthy; well; fit; in good health

noun:

• fault; defect; flaw; weak point; weakness; shortcoming; drawback Antonym: 美点
• failure (in an examination); failing grade

noun:

• retirement age
• years of service in a military rank before eligibility for promotion - archaism

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• something carried (in the hand); handheld; portable

noun:

• mobile telephone; cell phone - abbreviation - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone ➜ 携帯電話