noun:

• lotus flower ➜ 蓮
• Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus) - abbreviation ➜ 蓮華草
• china spoon - abbreviation ➜ 散り蓮華
• lotus-shaped pedestal for a gravestone

noun:

• mountain folk; hermit
• mountain wizard ［やまびと］ ➜ 仙人
• word used as part of a pseudonym by artists, writers, etc. ［さんじん］

noun:

• tilapia (freshwater fishes native to Africa, introduced to many areas worldwide as a food source) - From Latin

noun:

• parking lot (esp. a private lot, e.g. for corporate cars); car park - Kansai dialect - From English "motor pool"

noun:

• palanquin set with jewels
• money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man ➜ 玉の輿に乗る【たまのこしにのる】

noun:

• bad poem; my humble poem - polite language
• stooped over (e.g. old people); bowed
• stalling; having a relapse

noun:

• endless argument; pointless argument; arguing over whose field to water (e.g. during a drought) [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• locking sword to sword (in a duel) and pushing

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• fierce, close-fought competition

noun:

• trying out a new sword or blade (originally on someone, but now on soaked straw targets)

noun:

• raised leg; lifting a leg
• upturn (in the market) ［上げ足・上足］ Antonym: 下げ足
• sitting cross-legged - archaism

noun:

• cloth dyed in a dappled pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子絞り
• pattern of white spots; dapples - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子斑
• mochi containing red bean paste - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子餅
• fawn - original meaning - archaism ➜ 鹿【か】

adverb:

• suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove) - onomatopoeia
• in a single gulp; in one go - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb:

• to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

noun:

• compartment in a fishing boat with seawater for reviving or keeping alive fresh fish or bait

noun:

• apprenticeship in the running of a household; prospective bride who undertakes an apprenticeship to learn housekeeping - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• going into a huddle (over); holding secret (closed-door) conference (about); laying heads together in secret consultation - four character idiom

noun:

• troubles brought on by what one has written; incident occasioned by a serious slip of the pen - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of geminate consonant, primarily a geminate 't' from vowel stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 撥音便

noun:

• pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters - Sumo term

suffix:

• having a tendency towards; being close to

noun:

• Levite; member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi (who served a religious function)

noun:

• great purification; purification rite performed twice a year, before daijōsai and after major disasters - Shintō term ➜ 大嘗祭【だいじょうさい】

noun:

• creole (pidgin which has become a mother tongue) - From French
• Creole (person of mixed ancestry, esp.in the Caribbean)

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Edo-period unit of gold coinage ［金目］
• golden eyes (of a cat, etc.)
• splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens) - abbreviation ➜ 金目鯛