noun:

• being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets)
• going in one ear and out the other

noun:

• aburaage; thin deep-fried slices of tofu - Food term

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• frying in oil; deep-fried food

noun:

• bodhi; enlightenment - Buddhism term
• happiness in the next world - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• selecting from one's own works; one's own selection

noun:

• voting for oneself ［自選］

noun:

• tea-ceremony dishes ➜ 会席料理
• traditional Japanese meal brought in courses

noun:

• specialized course; specialised course
• something that is specialized for a certain field or application (e.g. a sauce specially made for zaru soba)

noun:

• vacant post; vacancy
• post in name only

noun:

• lifeboat
• friend in need; helping hand; timely help

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to sing at the top of one's voice; to belt out a song
• to express one's feelings fully in a poem; to praise in poetry

noun:

• rolled egg; rolled omelette (omelet) - Food term
• frying pan for making rolled eggs

noun / ~する noun:

• sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar
• rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment ➜ 喝【かつ】

noun:

• kasaya; monk's stole - Buddhism term
• wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) - abbreviation ➜ 袈裟懸け

noun:

• bill; account
• very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• mounting (animal behaviour)
• putting somebody down (esp. in an underhanded way) in an attempt to appear superior; putting somebody in their place

noun:

• camera obscura
• black box

noun / ~する noun:

• being postponed; being shelved; being put on hold - idiom
• putting in storage; thing put in storage - lit. meaning

noun:

• structure of an artwork; pictorial design
• pictures inserted in a book

noun:

• female cook; kitchenmaid
• woman who served both as a waitress and a prostitute in Osaka teahouses - archaism

conjunction / auxiliary:

• without doing ... ➜ ない

auxiliary:

• used in sentence-final position as an indirect prohibition

noun:

• grounds south of a building; southern garden
• garden south of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in the Kyoto Imperial Palace) ➜ 紫宸殿

noun:

• spaceman ➜ 宇宙飛行士【うちゅうひこうし】
• person who works with advertisements in trains, stations, etc. - From English "space man"

noun:

• eldest child; oldest child; first-born child
• child who carries on the family name
• pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces - archaism ➜ 律令制・総領【すべおさ】
• head of a warrior clan (Kamakura period) - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• failure; defective article; dead loss; botch

noun:

• good-for-nothing; worthless person; flop

noun / suffix noun:

• superclass ［じょうこう］ - Biology term

noun:

• top-ranking priest in the Office of Monastic Affairs - archaism - Buddhism term ➜ 僧綱

noun:

• Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps, Artemisia indica var. maximowiczii)
• general term for plants in the Artemisia genus; mugwort; sagebrush; wormwood