noun:

• baby colic (in infants around 3 months old)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of geminate consonant, primarily a geminate 't' from vowel stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 撥音便

noun / ~する noun:

• slipping (in boxing); down caused by a boxer slipping - Sports term - From English "slip down"

noun:

• stepper (device used in the manufacture of integrated circuits)

noun:

• mochi received from one's parents after giving birth (trad. eaten in miso soup to improve lactation)

noun:

• standard (for weights and measures)

noun:

• (accomplished in) both the literary and military arts - four character idiom

noun:

• Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)

noun:

• necromancer (esp. a blind female in northeastern Honshu); medium; shaman ➜ 巫子【いちこ】・口寄せ

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have to wait (for the realization of something hoped for); to be forced to postpone

noun:

• Lakshmi (consort of Vishnu in Hinduism) ➜ 吉祥天

noun:

• Volkerwanderung (great migration in Europe during the Migration Age)

noun:

• Konami Code (for the video games Gradius, Contra, etc.)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl

noun:

• inner practice hall (for Buddhism; on the imperial palace grounds)

noun:

• repetition of position (in chess, shogi, etc.); repetition draw

noun:

• events of May 1968 (strikes, protests and riots in France)

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)

noun:

• serving tea (esp. in tea ceremony) - polite language

noun:

• negative reaction (in patient)

noun:

• giant pygmy goby (Trimma gigantum, fish found in Palau)

noun:

• graceful shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides, species of requiem shark found in the tropical Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• phonetic alphabet (e.g. A for alpha, B for bravo, etc.); phonetic code

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 64 hexagrams in the Book of Changes) - obscure term

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony) ➜ 後の炭