noun:

• survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; the weak are meat the strong do eat [literal] - four character idiom

~する noun / ~と adverb / adverb:

• bulge in a pocket or clothing - onomatopoeia
• "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets

noun:

• chips or shavings left after cutting wood or metal with a saw, etc.

noun:

• hall or room where a private Buddha statue or ancestor tablets are kept ➜ 仏間

noun:

• roasted or deep-fried fish or meat, marinated in a spicy sauce

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to attend a meeting; to have the honor of being present at a meeting; to soil the lowest seat by one's presence [literal] - humble language

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become used to the (ways of the) world; to become worldly or sophisticated

noun:

• putting on a knowing air when one only knows the title of the book (play, etc.); pretending to understand the nature of something when one only knows its name - four character idiom

adverb:

• by all means (with sense of not taking "no" for an answer)

noun:

• economy of scale; cost saving or benefit from having a larger scale (e.g. of production) - From English "scale merit" ➜ 規模効果

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sound of bells or drums reverberating
• sound of water or waves resounding

auxiliary adjective:

• seeming ...; appearing ... - expresses judgement based on evidence, reason or trustworthy hearsay

suffix / adjective:

• -ish; like a ...; typical of ...; appropriate for ...; becoming of ...; worthy of the name ... - after a noun, adverb or adjective stem

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting) ➜ 六知事

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to handle well; to handle deftly
• to deal with; to manage; to settle; to sort; to process
• to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.); to cut and trim (fish)
• to sell out (completely); to dispose of (all stock)
• to untangle; to disentangle; to part; to arrange (e.g. the hem of a kimono)

noun:

• bi (ancient Chinese artifact; flat jade or glass disc with a circular hole in the centre)

noun:

• last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th) - Buddhism term ➜ 弔い上げ

noun:

• one's own effort; doing single-handedly
• a game (of go, shogi, etc.); a match
• a dance; a (musical) composition
• a company (e.g. of soldiers); a group; a party
• one hand

noun:

• Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)

noun:

• grasping the (main) point; seizing the essence (of a matter) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• lighting a sacred flame by the light of the Sun

noun:

• the part of a province furthest from the capital - archaism ➜ 道の口・道の中

noun:

• circle (sometimes used for zero) ➜ 丸【まる】
• 'correct' (when marking) ➜ 二重丸【にじゅうまる】
• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship) ➜ 〇〇【まるまる】
• period; full stop ➜ 句点
• maru mark; semivoiced sound; p-sound ➜ 半濁点

noun / ~する noun:

• on-the-spot filming or photography

noun:

• live filming (as opposed to animation); actual picture (as opposed to a drawing); photographic image (as opposed to a drawing, computer-generated image, etc.)
• real picture or story (as opposed to fiction, imaginary scene, etc.); describing actual scenes (in writing, drawings, paintings, etc.); documentary (film)

noun:

• flow rate (esp. water or electricity); quantity of flow; capacity (of output or throughput per unit time)

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月