adverb:

• for the present; for the time being; at present; in the meantime ➜ 差し当たり

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a risk for someone; to endanger oneself for someone; to gather chestnuts from the fire [literal] - orig. from the fable The Monkey and the Cat by Jean de La Fontaine - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing down, coming over a mountain

noun:

• immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
• winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term

noun / ~の noun:

• one breath; pause; rest
• one go (i.e. in a short time)
• small amount of effort

noun:

• one person; one customer - honorific language
• unmarried woman (with no children) over the age of 30 - colloquialism ➜ 負け犬

noun:

• used car

noun:

• rice field used to grow wheat

noun:

• polite language used by women

noun:

• converter (used in refining); rotary kiln

noun:

• (jar used as a) charcoal extinguisher

noun:

• spices used in toso (spiced sake) ➜ お屠蘇

noun:

• seaweed used in making salt; anthology

noun:

• paper used in pre-bout rituals - Sumo term

noun:

• drumming style used to announce bouts - Sumo term

noun:

• two sickles used in Okinawan Kobudo ➜ 鎌

noun:

• small gong (used in gagaku) ➜ 雅楽

noun:

• bamboo flute used in Qing music

noun:

• square; tool, esp. used in carpentry

noun:

• type of detector used at airports

noun:

• ash box (used in tea ceremony)

noun:

• stater (coin used in ancient Greece) - From Greek

noun:

• carbine (short gun used by cavalry) ➜ カービン

noun:

• bundle of straw used as mulch - obscure term

noun:

• paper scoop used in goldfish scooping

noun:

• wisteria ash (used in tea ceremony)