noun:

• law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation
• vinaya (rules for the monastic community) - Buddhism term
• Ritsu (school of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 律宗
• lushi (style of Chinese poem) - abbreviation ➜ 律詩
• (musical) pitch - also りち
• six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・呂
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) - abbreviation ➜ 律旋

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)

noun:

• precious stone (esp. jade) - also formerly read as ごく
• egg (sometimes esp. as a sushi topping) - Food term
• stock or security being traded; product being bought or sold
• position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer) ➜ 建玉
• geisha
• time charge for a geisha - abbreviation ➜ 玉代
• king (of the junior player) - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 玉将

~の noun / noun:

• average; medium; common; ordinary

noun / ~の noun:

• mid-grade (item); regular grade

suffix noun:

• same level as; equal to; equivalent to; on par with
• each (e.g. month); every
• row of (teeth, houses, etc.); line of

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

expression:

• better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Galapagos phenomenon; Galapagos syndrome; tendency of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) to be designed specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species ➜ ガラパゴス化

noun:

• bout that goes according to a wrestler's strategy; match that goes according to one's plan - four character idiom - Sumo term

adverb:

• unsparingly; without listening to the other party; without giving the other party a chance to explain ➜ 頭ごなし

noun:

• staple; stapler clip
• staple (food, crop)
• staple (fiber) ➜ ステープルファイバー
• cable clip; clip used to attach electrical cable to wooden building material ➜ ステップル

expression:

• to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; a crab digs a hole like its own shell [literal] - idiom

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a lovely picture; to be perfect for a picture - idiom

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• picture-perfect; picturesque - idiom

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

expression:

• experience is the best teacher; custom makes all things easy; you learn best by doing; practice makes perfect; it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught [literal]

noun / ~の noun:

• other (place, thing, person); the rest
• outside; beyond - esp. 外 - usually written using kana alone

adverbial noun:

• nothing except; nothing but; nothing apart from; nothing aside from; no choice (but to) - as 〜ほか〜ない, usu. after より or the dictionary form of a verb - usually written using kana alone ➜ ほかない
• besides...; in addition to... - often as ほかに

expression:

• So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own - four character idiom

noun / counter:

• mountain; hill
• mine (e.g. coal mine)
• heap; pile

noun:

• crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw); tread (of a tire); protruding part of an object
• climax; peak; critical point
• guess; speculation
• criminal case; crime - used by policemen, crime reporters, etc.
• mountain climbing; mountaineering
• festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd) ➜ 山鉾
• wall; wall tile - Mahjong term
• temple; temple grounds - archaism

prefix noun:

• wild

adverb / noun:

• unsparingly; without listening to the other party; without giving the other party a chance to explain

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to all come in (e.g. teeth); to all come out (e.g. seedlings, flowers)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to spend all of one's free time; to spend one's time without constraint

noun:

• Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods)
• ancient Bizen ware (Kamakura to early Momoyama periods) ➜ 備前焼

noun:

• request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person

expression:

• not negligible; not a little; to no small degree; to no small extent; quite a lot

expression / adjective:

• to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about