noun:

• pair (as part of a winning hand, together with four melds); eyes - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 対子

noun:

• blessing of man; winning with a discard in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• blessing of earth; winning with a self-drawn tile in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• something wider than it is high
• artwork with a horizontal aspect (e.g. scroll)

noun:

• 17C male hairstyle (shaved forehead, chignon, sideburns thinned to the size of a thread)

noun:

• salad served in a glass, cup, hollowed-out tomato, etc. - From English "cup salad"

noun:

• green tea fired in hot pans after a short withering (common Chinese technique)

noun:

• grilled slices of lotus root, eggplant, etc. with a filling (usu. minced meat) - Food term

noun:

• fertile flower (on a flowering plant which also has infertile flowers, e.g. hydrangeas) - Botany term

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class) ➜ 体育座り【たいいくずわり】

noun:

• denied freedom (of how to live one's life); living like a caged bird [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• imitation of a professional singer, musician, dancer, etc. usu. by an amateur - slang - abbreviation ➜ 完全コピー

noun:

• woven mat tied around a plant to prevent damage from the weight of snow

noun:

• flashlight-like lantern with a freely rotating candle that only directs light forward

counter:

• double; unit used in calculation of a hand's score - Mahjong term

noun:

• senior female worker who supervises junior employees in a domineering fashion - colloquialism ➜ 御局

expression:

• the line between good and evil is no wider than a razor's edge - proverb

noun:

• non-allergic (vasomotor) rhinitis brought about by a sudden change in temperature - Medicine term

noun:

• playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who will carry out a task ➜ じゃんけん

noun:

• category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece ➜ 能・天狗

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese) ➜ 慣用音

noun:

• assistant; helper
• assistant (to a professor) ［じょしゅ］

noun:

• demonstration; protest - abbreviation ➜ デモンストレーション
• (giving a) demo; demonstration; presentation - abbreviation ➜ デモンストレーション

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to contract (a disease); to suffer from

noun:

• bell (often a large hanging bell); chime ➜ 鉦