noun / ~する noun:

• skirmish; brush (with the enemy); small fight with a military enemy
• squabble; quarrel; brief argument; exchange of words

noun:

• palace
• tonic (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women) - abbreviation ➜ 宮刑

noun / suffix noun:

• zodiacal sign ➜ 十二宮

noun:

• priest who was also a street performer and performed prayers and other religious duties for the sake of other people

noun:

• tiles matching both the round wind and one's seat wind - Mahjong term ➜ 圏風牌・門風牌
• pung (or kong) of these tiles (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 役牌

noun:

• Om; Aun; syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma - From Sanskrit
• inspiration and expiration; respiration; alpha and omega

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to observe the reasons and types of faults a person makes is to come to know whether they are virtuous or not

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end) - slang - IT term

noun:

• game of chance similar to rock, paper scissors, where the different hand gestures symbolize a fox, a hunter and a village head

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

noun:

• world peace; peace of the world

noun:

• dislocation of the hip; hip dislocation

expression:

• citizen of the world; world citizen

noun:

• palm heel; heel of the palm - Martial Arts term

noun / ~の noun:

• state secrets; secrets of the state

noun:

• muscles of the back; back muscles

noun / ~する noun:

• being enthusiastic about; being wild about; being absorbed in; being engrossed in; being devoted to

noun:

• numbered ticket (e.g. to determine order of service in shop, etc.)
• zone ticket; boarding ticket; bus ticket dispensed at boarding, used to show where one boarded

noun:

• hidden village (esp. hidden retreat for nobles or refuge for soldiers of a defeated army); isolated village
• legendary land (deep in mountains or underground); Shangri-La

expression:

• to that extent ➜ 其れだけ
• accordingly; that being the case; because of that; this means that ...
• that state; that condition

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand up straight; to stand on end (e.g. of hair); to have the creeps ➜ 身の毛が弥立つ

expression:

• the world is a scene of constant changes; a mulberry field changes into a blue sea [literal] - proverb

expression:

• Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that... - opening formula of a brief letter

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting the beginning

noun / ~する noun:

• wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist) - slang

noun:

• kimono with completely attached sleeves (i.e. lacking an opening on the side under the armpit) ➜ 八つ口

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ お達し【おたっし】