noun:

• comics or novels about female homosexuality - colloquialism - From English "girls love"

noun:

• training school or institute

noun:

• underground wire or cable

noun:

• a Buddha or Bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace - Buddhism term

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

noun:

• specialized weapon or skill; specialised weapon or skill

noun:

• text message or symbol on a busy mobile phone indicating a call arrival (DoCoMo feature)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to knock or scare (someone) out of his or her wits; to strike a person dumb; to dumbfound; to take (someone) aback

noun:

• teacher's mark or grade book

noun:

• in Kyoto or the capital

noun:

• loose or soft stool

noun:

• cows' or pigs' offal (entrails) - Food term - From Korean "ttongjang" ➜ ホルモン

noun:

• steel or iron dome

noun:

• facility that serves meals and provides rooms for short-stay or overnight guests - abbreviation - From English "restaurant hotel" ➜ レストランホテル

noun:

• black silk or paper triangle worn over the forehead (usu. worn by children)

noun:

• swimming or bathing cap

noun:

• scaffolding or construction worker; steeplejack

expression:

• come hell or high water - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• act of praying or performing an incantation so that a bad dream does not come true

noun:

• small vessel or bowl in which sake cups are rinsed ➜ 杯洗

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - sensitive ➜ 麺媽

noun:

• place where one resides or is staying

counter:

• counter for chairs or seats

noun:

• work-related injury or death

noun:

• lack of individuality or personality