noun:

• official test for a secretarial qualification

noun:

• invention developed as a result of one's work ➜ 職務発明

noun / ~する noun:

• making a feature part of the specifications - From English "spec-in"

noun:

• a square sun (i.e. approx 9sq. cm.) ➜ 寸
• one's mind; space occupied by one's heart

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give a name (to something)

noun:

• dealing a hard (heavy, crushing) blow (to) - four character idiom

noun:

• denomination of a Shinto shrine ➜ 神社【じんじゃ】・神宮【じんぐう】
• company title; company denomination ➜ 社名【しゃめい】

noun:

• a field worker; outside worker

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to expand a market; to find a new market

noun / ~する noun:

• praying for the coming of a deity
• ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location ➜ 分霊

expression / noun:

• a swan among ducklings; a diamond among stones; a great figure among the common run of men - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• serving as a concubine

noun:

• death not caused by a violent crime (excl. dying of natural causes) ➜ 犯罪死

noun:

• visiting a grave

noun:

• prohibition against women entering a sacred area - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• with a clatter; with a rattle - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• empty; bare; uninhabited; vacant; unoccupied - onomatopoeia
• raspy (voice); gravelly; husky - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• with a gargle - onomatopoeia

~する noun / adverb:

• rough (personality, speech, etc.); unreserved; outspoken; boorish; ill-mannered - onomatopoeia

noun:

• rattle (e.g. baby's toy) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• service with a samurai family; serving in a samurai household (as a valet, chambermaid, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• head of a monastic institution; abbot; prior; abbess; prioress; mother superior

noun:

• puppet with a moving mouth

noun:

• along a rocky beach

noun:

• main door at the front of a house
• front shutters

ichidan verb:

• to make a habit of; to make it a practice to

noun:

• stories (esp. war stories) or lectures told by someone near a road or temple while begging for money

noun:

• apex of a shell; umbo

expression:

• by a comfortable margin