noun:

• menu; list of meals (e.g. for the week) ➜ メニュー

noun:

• civet; stew of a game animal, red wine and various alliums (often thickened with the animal's blood) - Food term - From French

noun / ~する noun:

• rise and fall; frequent fluctuations (of the market price) - four character idiom

noun:

• Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan) ➜ 二十四史

noun:

• krill; euphasiid (any species in the family Euphausiacea)

noun:

• modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)

noun:

• divine mirror; sacred mirror (one of the three sacred treasures)

noun:

• seamanship; (the art of) navigation

expression:

• one never knows (what will happen); there's no telling (what the future holds)

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)

noun:

• cotyledon; seed leaf (i.e. the first leaves to emerge when a seed sprouts)

noun:

• Buddhist missionary, esp. in Jodo, Pure Land, etc. sects; Buddhist minister (in the West)

noun:

• higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox) ➜ 江戸彼岸
• double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula) - colloquialism ➜ 江戸彼岸

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air)

noun:

• ghost; revenant; spirit (of the dead); departed soul

noun:

• geometer moth; geometrid (of the Ennominae subfamily)

noun:

• drum; croaker (any fish of the family Sciaenidae)
• Nibe croaker (Nibea mitsukurii)

noun:

• deepest part; deepest portion; depths (of the ocean etc.); innermost

conjunction:

• instead; but (on the other hand)

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fly (with great force); to blast (e.g. into the sky)
• to lack common sense
• to be extremely surprised (by) - colloquialism

noun:

• aurochs; urus (extinct ancestor of the modern cow, Bos taurus) ➜ オーロックス

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to stop an inside seam rolling about; to press open a seam (and open the left and right sides out)

noun:

• cenote; sinkhole (esp. in the Yucatan peninsula) - From Spanish

noun:

• medial; final-head (glide before the center vowel in Chinese)