noun:

• business based on anime and manga characters; character-based business - From English "character business"

noun:

• fruit sandwich; sandwich filled with fruit and sweetened whipped cream

noun:

• fruit sandwich; sandwich filled with fruit and sweetened whipped cream ➜ フルーツサンド

noun:

• semi suite; large hotel room with separate sleeping and living room areas

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• semi-sweet

noun:

• exhibition game; friendly match; friendly - Sports term
• interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues - Sports term ➜ セ・パ

noun / ~する noun:

• obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale - From English "flying get"

noun / ~する noun:

• squatting (usu. with elbows on knees and often while smoking, typically considered a low-class posture)

noun:

• Okinawan dish of grated carrot stir-fried with egg and sometimes meat or fish - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

expression:

• red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky in morning, sailors take warning; red sky at night, shepherds delight; red sky in morning, shepherds take warning - proverb

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to destroy; to demolish; to pull down; to tear down; to level
• to disturb; to put into disorder; to throw off balance; to make shaky
• to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease
• to break (a bill); to change; to make change - oft. 札を崩す, etc.
• to write in cursive style; to write in running style - oft. as 字を崩す
• to break into a smile; to let off a smile - as 顔を崩す, etc.
• to lower (a price)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bury (e.g. in the ground)
• to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed
• to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to bridge (a difference, a gap); to fill (a seat, a vacant position); to fill out
• to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends; to compensate for
• to put cold water (in a bath)
• to cover; to scatter something over

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to pass through; to pass by; to go beyond
• to pass (i.e. of time); to elapse
• to have expired; to have ended; to be over
• to exceed; to surpass; to be above
• to be no more than ... - as 〜に過ぎない, etc.

ichidan verb / intransitive verb / suffix:

• to be excessive; to be too much; to be too ... - often used after adjective stems or the -masu stems of verbs - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• order (esp. to a number of people); command
• ritual of bowing at start and end of school class

noun / ~する noun:

• viewing and treating as one; regarding as the same; equating one thing with another; identification

adjectival noun / noun:

• subtle grace; hidden beauty; yugen; mysterious profundity; elegant simplicity; the subtle and profound; the occult

adverb / ~の noun:

• repeatedly; over and over again

adverb:

• fully (e.g. understand); very much; very well; exceedingly

expression:

• dignified without being overbearing; being dignified, and moreover warm, as such one is gentle ➜ 威ありて猛からず【いありてたけからず】

expression:

• a balanced diet leads to a healthy body; healthy food both prevents and cures sickness - four character idiom

noun:

• Imjin War (1592-1597); Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea; battle(s) of Bunroku and Keicho

noun / ~する noun:

• charmed and cursed - archaism ➜ 蠱
• something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons

noun:

• charmed and cursed - archaism ➜ 蠱物
• something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons

noun:

• elegant speech (esp. the use of the prefixes "o-" and "go- "); refined language; polite language ➜ 尊敬語・丁寧語

noun:

• the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind) - Buddhism term
• the human body
• Tao, heaven, earth and king

noun:

• ceremony where the Emperor would inspect the records of attendance and absence of officials - archaism

noun:

• wait-and-see; sitting on the fence; waiting to see which way the wind blows