noun:

• young female TV announcer (who also frequently functions as a television talent doing on-location fluff pieces for variety shows) - abbreviation ➜ アナウンサー

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 促音便

noun:

• roofed corridor connecting two buildings (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• coin (esp. an east Asian coin, many of which have a hole in the center)

noun:

• (in the midst of) busyness

noun:

• Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup) ➜ 沖縄蕎麦

noun:

• humerus (upper bone in arm)

noun:

• Buddhist decoration engraved with various motifs, often made from gilt copper (e.g. for adorning the inner shrine of a temple) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• appeal (in court)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go downhill (e.g. for one's business); to be badly off (economically) ➜ 左前

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

noun / ~する noun:

• extensive references (in a text)

noun:

• the three most important cities (esp. in ref. to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to demonstrate (e.g. in the streets)

noun:

• coolant (in a nuclear reactor)

noun:

• spiderwort-dyed paper (used for making a rough sketch when dyeing)

noun:

• banded houndshark (Triakis scyllium, found in the northwest Pacific from southern Siberia to Taiwan)

noun / prefix noun:

• chicken bones (e.g. for soup); chicken carcass ➜ 鶏がら

noun:

• poor-quality coke (coal)

suffix:

• left-overs; remnants

noun:

• pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)

noun:

• chemical symbols (for the elements)

noun:

• bite (in fishing)

noun:

• bass range (in Japanese music) - abbreviation ➜ 甲【かん】
• six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・律
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ➜ 呂旋

noun:

• lack of (slackness in) military discipline; demoralization - four character idiom

noun:

• Yūbari melon (sweet orange melon grown in Yūbari City, Hokkaido) ➜ カンタロープ

noun:

• bagua mirror (mirror used in divination in fengshui); pa kua mirror