expression:

• a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next - proverb

noun:

• tōsō-on; Tang-Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese ➜ 唐音【とうおん】

noun:

• senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this year; before the year comes to a close; during this year

noun:

• one's own country
• home country (as opposed to a colony)
• country of one's ancestors

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to lose hair; to become bald
• to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)

noun / ~の noun:

• homo; homosexual (esp. a male); homosexuality (esp. male-male) - abbreviation ➜ ホモセクシュアル
• homozygote - abbreviation ➜ ホモ接合体
• homogenization - abbreviation ➜ ホモジナイズ
• Homo (genus of primates incl. modern humans) - From Latin

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to make a dent in one's purse; to have to pay out of one's own pocket

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to put up an (emotional) wall (between two people); to become distant - idiom
• to form a wall (of people) - idiom

noun:

• cord used to tuck up the sleeves of a kimono
• sash (worn across chest, e.g. by election candidate or relay runners)
• wrapper band on books, CDs, etc. ➜ 帯紙・帯【おび】

noun / suffix noun:

• room
• wife (of someone of high rank) - obscure term
• scabbard - obscure term
• Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】

noun:

• removal of blanket government protection of bank deposits; introduction of limits on deposit insurance

noun:

• lost work; lost writings
• partially lost work; literary fragment; work that survives through quotations
• work of a superior quality

ichidan verb:

• to bind together (e.g. the pages of a book); to sew up; to tape together; to stitch together

noun / ~する noun:

• reference; bibliographical reference; consultation; browsing (e.g. when selecting a file to upload on a computer); checking out

noun / ~する noun:

• pardon; extenuation; excuse ［かしゃく］
• borrowing ［かしゃく］

noun:

• borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to write a similar-sounding word

noun:

• scheme in which a man and woman trick another man into a compromising situation for blackmail; badger game

noun:

• available to promise (i.e. a product is in stock and can be promised to a buyer); ATP

noun:

• robe with a round collar, stitched sides and a ran, worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials ➜ 襴

noun:

• billhook; fascine knife; sickle-shaped tool with a sharp inner edge, halfway between a knife and an axe

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• on the cheap side; comparatively cheap ➜ 高め【たかめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a lower score - Mahjong term

noun:

• stretched tire (tyre); narrow tire mounted on a wide rim to achieve a low-profile look

expression:

• harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; a round egg can be cut into a square [literal] - proverb

adjective:

• thin - in ref. to objects, not to people
• pale; light; faint
• watery; thin; dilute
• weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
• slim (probability, etc.); small
• sparse; patchy; scattered

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom