noun:

• giving something a try because one has nothing to lose - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 駄目で元々

expression / godan ~る verb:

• clapping with wooden clappers (to signal the beginning or end of a performance) - obscure term

noun:

• section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)

expression:

• being excessively cautious; knocking on a strong stone bridge before crossing it [literal] - idiom

noun:

• standing (of a legal case, e.g. whether there are grounds to prosecute)

noun:

• drink; drinking - abbreviation
• spigot; tap (in a cask, etc.)
• stock market bucketing
• bookmaking

noun:

• Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni) - obscure term - From Latin "Eoanthropus" ➜ ピルトダウン人

noun:

• outline of a solitary fish (as seen through the water when fishing, etc.)

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun / ~する noun:

• ding-dong dash (ringing a doorbell and running away)

noun:

• literary form imparting a formal written nuance (with sentences ending in "de aru") ➜ だ体

noun:

• kindling; small bits of scrap wood used to fuel a stove - obscure term

noun:

• hog (esp. a wild boar, but also including the domesticated pig) - archaism

noun:

• Test of English as a Foreign Language; TOEFL

noun:

• "No." (Zhaozhou's answer to the koan "Does a dog have Buddha nature?") - Buddhism term ➜ 狗子仏性

noun / ~する noun:

• placing in a list (top ten, popularity, sales, etc.) - From English "rank in"

noun:

• yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram) ➜ 卦

noun:

• forming by hand (instead of using a potter's wheel, etc.); handwork

noun:

• pre-harvest estimate of a rice field's yield and selling price

noun:

• inverted copper or iron bell shaped like a bowl (sounded when reciting sutras)

noun:

• kuruma prawn (esp. a small one, i.e. less than 10 cm in length) ➜ 車海老

noun:

• couchette; non-private sleeper car or berth on a European train - From French

noun:

• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - archaism ➜ 鯤

noun:

• person who judges which god or spirit has taken possession of a miko - archaism - obscure term - Shintō term

interjection:

• exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen)

noun:

• scolding or threatening with a shout