noun:

• ranking of web pages by number of times viewed

noun:

• karoshi line (official measure of excessive hours of overtime per month) ➜ 過労死

noun / prefix / suffix:

• medium; average; middle

noun:

• moderation
• middle school - abbreviation ➜ 中一・中学校
• China - abbreviation ➜ 中国
• volume two (of three) - abbreviation ➜ 中巻

suffix noun:

• during (a certain time when one did or is doing something); under (construction, etc.); while ➜ 話し中
• in; out of (e.g. three out of ten people) ➜ 中【じゅう】

noun:

• taste (of a liquid, esp. alcoholic beverages) - usu. のみくち
• someone who enjoys alcohol
• place one's lips touch on the rim of a cup
• shape of one's mouth when drinking
• tap; faucet; spigot - usu. のみぐち

noun:

• being so broad-minded as to accept all sorts of things, both good and evil; being broad-minded enough to be tolerant of people of all shades - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of
• to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title); to falsify (e.g. a seal)

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

noun:

• (not even) a bit of; (not even) a hint of; (not) an iota of - four character idiom

noun:

• pronunciation; reading (e.g. of a kanji)
• way of reading (out loud)
• interpretation (e.g. of a text); reading

noun:

• any horsehair worm of class Gordioidea; gordian worm (of class Gordioidea); hair worm (of class Gordioidea) ➜ 線形虫
• wireworm (click beetle larva) ➜ 米搗虫

~と adverb:

• (with a) slap; smack; whack; sound of a sharp blow with something flat - onomatopoeia
• wham; sound of striking with something solid - onomatopoeia
• zap; crack; sound of thunder - onomatopoeia

noun:

• bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae)
• middle (of a three-tier ranking system) ➜ 梅【うめ】・松【まつ】

noun:

• hem; (trouser) cuff; shirttail
• bottom edge
• foot (of a mountain)
• tips (of hair)
• downstream - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• shortness of breath; panting; puffing
• running out of steam (e.g. economy); losing momentum

noun:

• fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha)
• person of no worth; pisher; scrub - derogatory term

noun:

• mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae) ➜ 銭葵・冬葵
• Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger) ➜ 二葉葵
• hollyhock - hollyhocks (genus Alcea) are part of the mallow family ➜ 立葵

noun:

• source (e.g. of a river); headwaters
• origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)

expression / noun:

• thick fog (of suspicion); black veil of secrecy; covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• fluttering (esp. of thick or heavy material) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• piece of dangling cloth, paper, metal, etc. - onomatopoeia

noun:

• glasnost; Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues in the 1980s - From Russian "glasnost'"

noun:

• something (equipped) with legs
• sole of foot
• one's manner of walking

noun:

• Man'yōshū; 8th century anthology of Japanese poetry; Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves [literal]

noun:

• Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matters

noun:

• piece of wood at front edge of entranceway floor; agarikamachi

noun:

• endless cycle of rebirth through the three worlds of past, present, and future existences - four character idiom - Buddhism term