noun:

• star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
• offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
• star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
• circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
• bullseye
• one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
• small dot; spot
• point; score - Sumo term

noun:

• they (of people); gentlemen (of the ...) - honorific language
• you (usu. plural) - honorific language

adverb:

• various

noun / ~する noun:

• failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year) Antonym: 及第
• falling short of the standard; not making the grade

noun:

• set meal; special (of the day)

noun:

• (Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

noun / ~する noun:

• invitation; summons; bidding (e.g. to host the Olympics); calling

noun / ~する noun:

• changing household registry; transfer (e.g. of one's name in the register)
• transferring to a different team - Sports term

noun:

• habitat; home (e.g. of the tiger)

noun:

• example; exercise (for the reader)

noun / ~する noun:

• going to bed; retiring (for the night)

noun:

• proceedings (e.g. parliament, congress); business (of the day)

noun:

• pochette; pouch (usu. hung from the shoulder by a long cord) - From French

noun:

• first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence)
• initials (of one's name)

~する noun:

• to keep; to put aside (for somebody); to keep possession (usu. the ball in sports); to hold one's service (tennis)

noun:

• quipu; quippu

noun / ~の noun:

• dying; (on the) verge of death

noun / ~する noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• close resemblance; vivid reminder (e.g. of the past)

noun:

• Pindola; Pindola Bharadvaja (one of four Arhats asked by the Buddha to remain in the world to propagate Buddhist law) - Buddhism term

noun:

• all green; winning hand consisting only of exclusively green tiles (green dragons and suited bamboo tiles of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8) - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• wake; vigil (that does not last the full night) ➜ 通夜

noun:

• uji-kabane system; system of clans and hereditary titles (of the Yamato court) ➜ 氏【うじ】・姓【かばね】

noun:

• totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea) - four character idiom

noun:

• lucky person; someone who made a lot of money (e.g. gambling or on the stock market)
• skilled batter; batter on a hot streak - Baseball term
• accident faker; someone who jumps in front of cars on purpose to extort money
• barbershop

noun:

• hypercholesterolemia; hypercholesterolaemia (excess of cholesterol in the bloodstream)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

noun:

• golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); cuttlefish (any species in the family Sepiidae)