noun:

• anime freak; person overly interested in female anime and video game characters - derogatory term - slang

noun:

• term used in translation; translation equivalent
• word borrowed and translated from another language

noun:

• countries that do not use Chinese characters in their writing; non-kanji countries

expression / adjective:

• useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point ➜ 意味がある【いみがある】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in a mess; to have things scattered here and there

noun:

• doll cake; sponge cake in various shapes filled with red bean paste - Food term

noun:

• private constitutional drafts prepared before the adoption of the Meiji Constitution in 1889

noun:

• village school (esp. in Edo-era Japan, and ancient Korea and China)

noun / ~する noun:

• bogging down; dragging on; turning into a quagmire; becoming mired in a mess

noun:

• simmering after steaming - Food term
• simmering (in a small amount of broth); smothering; estouffade - Food term

noun:

• karma mandala (in Shingon); three-dimensional mandala with a sculpture of each deity - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

expression / adjective:

• depending largely on; playing a large role in; due largely to - as ～によるところが大きい

noun:

• (in soccer) system of using different starting lineups for different matches - Sports term

adjective:

• bad; poor; inferior
• evil; sinful
• unprofitable; unbeneficial
• at fault; to blame; in the wrong
• sorry

adverb / ~と adverb:

• drumming (noise); beating; pounding; banging; booming; stamping - onomatopoeia
• rapidly; quickly; steadily - onomatopoeia
• continuously; one after the other; in succession - onomatopoeia

noun:

• surname; family name
• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing) ［せい］ ➜ 姓【かばね】

noun / prefix:

• rag; scrap; tattered clothes
• fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect

adjectival noun:

• run-down; shabby; junky

noun / ~する noun:

• opposition; rebellion; revolt; resistance; backlash; refusal
• rebounding; recoiling; repulsion
• rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery

noun:

• tide; current
• sea water
• opportunity; chance ［しお］
• thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater ［うしお］ - abbreviation ➜ 潮汁【うしおじる】

noun / ~する noun:

• throwing into; inserting; depositing
• investment; putting in (personnel, etc.)
• release of a product
• making (an electrical circuit)

suffix:

• Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms. - after a person's name (or position, etc.) - honorific language
• makes words more polite (usu. in fixed expressions) - usu. after a noun or na-adjective prefixed with お- or ご- - polite language ➜ お粗末さまでした

noun:

• state; situation; appearance

noun:

• ball (for sport, games, etc.)
• kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan ［鞠・毬］ ➜ 蹴鞠

noun:

• notches; serration; indentation; jaggies (stair-step artifacts in computer images) - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• notched; serrated; jagged; corrugated; milled - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• Lord; Sir ［きょう］ - honorific language

noun:

• state minister (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

pronoun:

• you (in reference to someone of lower status) ［けい］ - archaism - male language - honorific language

noun:

• advance guard; vanguard
• athlete who competes in the first match of a team competition (kendo, judo, etc.)