noun:

• a number of interesting stories; book containing a number of interesting stories

noun:

• food served on a table (esp. food served on a small Japanese table) ➜ 膳部

noun:

• determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning; determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech - esp. 口裏
• divining good or bad luck from listening to someone - esp. 口占 - archaism

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the high side
• on the expensive side; comparatively expensive ➜ 安め【やすめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score - Mahjong term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to carry up; to bring up; to lift up
• to elevate (someone) to a high position; to convince someone to accept a post (esp. through flattery)

noun / ~する noun:

• retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
• command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; imposition
• descent from heaven - orig. meaning

noun:

• interior of the womb (of a pregnant woman); interior of the uterus
• interior of a Buddhistic statue

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone)
• to begin to talk; to start a conversation

noun:

• having good knowledge of a certain matter; person who has good knowledge of a certain matter; informed source ➜ 通

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to extend; to stretch out; to stand in a row
• to attend; to participate in
• to enrol; to enroll; to join
• to have a connection; to be related; to be linked

noun / ~の noun:

• substance; real form
• main part; main unit; body (of a machine)

noun:

• this machine; this appliance

noun / ~の noun:

• object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)
• noumenon

noun:

• base price; pre-tax price - abbreviation ➜ 本体価格【ほんたいかかく】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to collapse
• to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop

noun / suffix noun:

• feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province; clan

particle:

• although; despite; even though; and yet
• whereas; while
• if only; I wish
• in order to

noun / ~する noun:

• being liberated from earthly desires and the woes of man; (reaching) nirvana; moksha; mukti

noun / adjectival noun:

• regret

noun:

• flesh, blood vessels and fat from around chicken heart, usu. served as yakitori

noun:

• teriyaki (meat or fish marinated in sweet soy sauce and broiled)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• splashing (water) - onomatopoeia
• chubby (and cute); plump ［ぽちゃぽちゃ］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dessert (esp. in Italian cuisine); sweets; cake - From Italian "dolce"

adverb:

• dolce; (to be performed) gently and sweetly - Music term - From Italian

noun:

• superalloy
• Chogokin; line of die-cast metal robot and character toys sold by Popy

noun:

• Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water - Buddhism term

noun:

• loach stew; loaches boiled in soy sauce with stewed eggs and slivered burdock root - Food term ➜ 泥鰌

expression:

• currying favour (favor); brown-nosing; bootlicking; sucking pus from carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids (haemorrhoids) [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• woman or girl who acts cute by playing innocent and helpless - derogatory term - slang ➜ ぶる

noun:

• true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)