noun:

• Huntington's disease

pronoun:

• you (referring to someone of equal or lower status) - 貴女 refers only to females and 貴男 refers only to males - polite language
• dear (what a wife calls a husband) ［貴方・貴男］

noun:

• actual article or goods
• spots (stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.)
• (in) kind (income, benefit, rent, taxes, investment, etc.)

adjectival noun:

• real; realistic; true to life

noun:

• realtime blog - abbreviation
• real world (cf. online games or social networking services)
• rial (currency)

noun:

• kokyu (3 or 4-stringed bowed Japanese musical instrument)
• any Oriental string instrument played with a bow

noun:

• sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top - Food term ➜ ばら寿司【ばらずし】・五目鮨【ごもくずし】

noun:

• public goods (i.e. goods or services such as lighthouses, military installations, etc., which are provided by government) ➜ 集合財

expression / ichidan verb:

• to trick someone (into confirming or revealing the truth); to ask a leading question - idiom

noun:

• Okinawan lion (or lion dog) statue placed as talisman against evil at entrances and on roofs - しーしー and しし are col. ➜ 獅子

noun:

• millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)

noun:

• Aikido technique, wherein the opponent is brought down by twisting his or her arm away from the body - Martial Arts term

expression / adjective:

• difficult to get into
• not be easily influenced into joining some mood or activity Antonym: ノリが良い【ノリがよい】

noun:

• image of the Samantabhadra of long life (with either two or twenty arms, usu. on a white elephant) - Buddhism term ➜ 普賢菩薩

noun:

• Lamna (genus of mackerel sharks or white sharks with two living species in the family Lamnidae)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• echoing beautifully (of the sound produced by striking together jewels or metals); "beautiful (of a melody, etc.)" [figurative] - archaism

noun:

• holiday ➜ 紋日
• day on which prostitutes had to receive clients (or pay their own fee to avoid doing so) - archaism

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as a Shinto offering) - poetic name - archaism ➜ 玉串

noun:

• bridle made from knotted rope or leather - obsolete term
• multi-coloured rope ceremonial garland, placed on cattle, large rocks, etc.

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow) ➜ 藍摺

noun:

• meaningless or stupid turn of phrase that at first glance resembles a wise saying; silly saying; nonsensical proverb - pun on 名言 - humorous term ➜ 名言

noun:

• beginning character or characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu (esp. used in competitive karuta) ➜ 百人一首【ひゃくにんいっしゅ】

noun / ~する noun:

• delivery to the wrong house or person (email, postal items, etc.); false notification; mistaken notification; notifying somebody incorrectly

noun / ~する noun:

• vindication of honour; vindication of honor; making up for loss; revenge

auxiliary verb / godan ~く verb:

• to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done - contraction of ..て or で plus 置く

noun:

• football (incl. soccer, rugby, American football, etc.; esp. used for soccer) ➜ サッカーボール