noun:

• highly virtuous monk
• monk - honorific language
• Buddhist solitary
• Buddhist missionary ➜ 高野聖
• saint (i.e. a virtuous person)
• emperor - archaism - honorific language
• master; expert - in form 〜の聖

noun:

• voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)

noun:

• simplified form (of a kanji); any of 22 simplified non-joyo kanji variants commonly used in print ➜ 常用漢字

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to feel pain ➜ 痛い目・目にあう【めにあう】

noun:

• left skirt of a kimono
• geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono) ➜ 芸妓

noun:

• first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month) ➜ 閉炉

noun:

• normal tire (i.e. not a winter tire, etc.); normal tyre; regular tyre

noun:

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

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood (e.g. of a conversation) ➜ 空気を読む

noun:

• kokedama; moss ball; plant grown in a ball of soil covered in moss, held together with string

noun:

• yang (i.e. the positive) Antonym: 陰【いん】
• the open (i.e. a visible place) ➜ 陽に

noun / suffix noun:

• tuck (e.g. in a dress) ➜ 縫い揚げ【ぬいあげ】

noun:

• rise (e.g. in price) ［上げ］ Antonym: 下げ

godan ~す verb:

• to begin to run; to start running; to break into a run

noun / ~する noun:

• location (e.g. of film shoot); remote (shoot at a remote location) - abbreviation ➜ ロケーション

noun / ~する noun:

• forming into an organization; forming into an organisation; setting up a group

noun:

• one's specialty; one's forte
• specialty of a kabuki school

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like

noun:

• plunge basin; waterfall lake; plunge pool; basin under a waterfall

noun:

• name of the writer of a gravestone epitaph, engraved after the epitaph

expression / ichidan verb:

• to turn on an electric light; to switch on a light

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• proneness to being ill; being sick a lot; proneness to disease

godan ~る verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to make a mistake; to mess up; to make an error; to err - colloquialism ➜ ミス

noun:

• one's face turning red; with a flush on one's face - four character idiom

noun:

• being something of a politician; having something of the politician in one - four character idiom

noun:

• having a long torso and short legs; long-bodied and short-legged - four character idiom