noun:

• rice porridge divination; harvest divination carried out during Koshogatsu ➜ 年占・小正月

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:

• whole year; all year round; throughout the year

adverb:

• always; all the time; perpetually ［ねんじゅう・ねんぢゅう］

noun:

• during an era
• middle class (of a nursery school, etc.) ［ねんちゅう］

noun:

• porcelain bowl ［どんぶり］
• bowl of rice with food on top - abbreviation ➜ 丼物

noun:

• rice boiled in tea (and) flavored with sake and shoyu (flavoured)

noun:

• main dish (e.g. meat, fish, but not rice); principal dish ➜ メインディッシュ

noun:

• paddy field; rice field

noun:

• grain thief; sharpened tube for testing rice in bags - abbreviation ➜ 米刺し
• sashimi (sliced raw fish) - abbreviation ➜ 刺身
• stabbing; piercing; pricking ➜ 刺す・刺す

noun:

• tempura served over a bowl of rice
• (in comedy) repeating the same gag or silly line - colloquialism

noun:

• nama-fu; wheat gluten mixed with rice flour and steamed in large blocks - Food term ➜ 麸【ふ】

noun:

• vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste, esp. with lots of liquid - Food term ➜ 糠味噌漬け
• hot-dip galvanizing - colloquialism - Engineering term

noun:

• Japanese curry with an additional topping (e.g. shredded beef, hayashi-rice sauce, etc.)

noun:

• loco moco; Hawaiian dish, trad. white rice topped with hamburger patty, fried egg and brown gravy - Food term

noun:

• tangyuan; tang yuan; Chinese dumplings made from glutinous rice flour - Food term

noun:

• white gem (esp. a pearl) - also written as 真珠 ➜ 真珠
• rice flour dumpling
• white-flowered camellia - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 白玉椿

noun:

• the god of foodstuffs (esp. of rice)

noun:

• chunky mochi made with half-polished rice, stuffed with red bean paste ➜ 餅【もち】・餡

noun:

• mochikinchaku; glutinous rice in a pouch of fried tofu, used in oden ➜ 巾着【きんちゃく】

adjective:

• light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily) Antonym: 重い
• light (i.e. of foot); effortless; nimble; agile
• non-serious; minor; unimportant; trivial
• slight; small; gentle; soft; easy; lighthearted (e.g. joke)
• easy; simple
• indiscriminate ➜ 口が軽い

noun:

• fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward) Antonym: 上がり
• string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt - Sumo term
• food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs - usu. as お下がり ➜ お下がり
• leaving (one's master's place for home)

suffix noun / noun:

• a little after ...

noun:

• katsudon; pork cutlet served on top of a bowl of rice ➜ カツ

noun:

• type of sushi with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on the rice - Kansai dialect ➜ 五目寿司

expression:

• fields and rice paddies that have been abandoned and are no longer cultivated

ichidan verb:

• to cook (esp. grains such as rice, by boiling); to finish cooking

noun:

• sushi; anything made with vinegared rice (may also contain vegetables, spices, fish, or other delicacies) - Food term ➜ 巻き寿司