noun:

• aim; object; purpose; end
• expectations; prospects; hopes
• something that can be relied upon
• snack served with alcoholic drink - Kansai dialect

suffix noun:

• pad; guard

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• blow; strike

suffix:

• addressed to ［宛・宛て］
• per - also written as 充て - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• policeman; cop - esp. お巡り ➜ お巡りさん
• walking in a circle (dog trick) - esp. お回り
• rounds (doctor, police beat, etc.) - archaism
• vegetables that accompany rice (secret language of court ladies) - archaism ➜ おかず・女房言葉

noun / ~する noun:

• something used to cover the eyes; blindfold; blinder; blinker; eye bandage
• concealing one's home such that the interior cannot be seen from outside

noun:

• interpreter (languages, events, etc.) ➜ 通訳者・説明者
• interpreter; software that decodes and executes a high-level language (e.g. Java, Python, PHP) - IT term

noun:

• leniency policy; addition to Japan's antitrust law that allows lower fines for the first company involved in a cartel, etc. to admit their involvement - Law term ➜ 独占禁止法

noun:

• slant eyes; almond-shaped eyes; eyes that are turned up at the corners

noun:

• declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ ダブル立直【ダブルリーチ】

adverb:

• presumably; conceivably; in my opinion; in my view; I think (that); upon thought; upon reflection

noun:

• elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school

expression:

• what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about

noun:

• fish-breeding forest; riverside or coastal forest that encourages fish breeding

noun:

• spring dust [literal]; frost and snow that's blown like dust in the air by the spring wind

noun:

• morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

noun:

• middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school ➜ 高等部

expression:

• something that has been joined together will eventually come apart; what may be joined may be separated - proverb

expression:

• after having come this far; now that we've come this far

noun:

• victimization by media; trial by media; damage caused by exaggerated or false reporting (e.g. that one has committed a crime)

~の noun:

• half made (e.g. clothes that are already cut and basted when purchased)

noun:

• hotel that rents rooms to couples either overnight or for two hours' "rest" - From English "love hotel"

noun:

• the three realms of existence - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界・色界・無色界
• the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三千大千世界
• past, present and future existences - Buddhism term ➜ 三世【さんぜ】

suffix:

• far-off ...; distant ...

noun:

• egg slow-boiled so that the yolk is hard but the white is still soft (traditionally cooked in a hot spring)

noun:

• principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next

pre-noun adjectival:

• the usual; as it always is
• said; that (previously-mentioned person or object); aforementioned; you-know-(who, what, etc.)

adverb:

• in the usual way - archaism

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

noun:

• ASMR video; genre of video that exploits autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) to induce tingling, comfort, or sleepiness in the listener