noun / adjectival noun:

• frivolity; superficiality; fickleness; lack of substance - four character idiom - obscure term ➜ 軽佻浮薄

adverb:

• anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; all kinds of this; this and that

noun:

• choro; chorinho; style of Brazilian popular music - Music term - From Portuguese

noun:

• being much talked about; creating a stir; being the talk of town - four character idiom

noun:

• light distribution (e.g. in candle-power or candela); luminous intensity distribution; spatial distribution of luminous intensity

noun:

• dawn; daybreak; first light of day
• first indication; glimpse; gleam; flash; prospects - fig. as in 〜の曙光

expression / adjective:

• unbecoming; unsuitable; disgraceful; wrong for one's age; unworthy of one's years; thoughtless for one's age

noun:

• Gaoshanzu; Gaoshan; indigenous tribes of Taiwan

noun:

• half watch ashore; port and starboard liberty; shore leave for half of a ship's crew at once

noun:

• healing crisis; cleansing reaction; reaction during the elimination of toxins after antibiotic, etc. treatment

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be disgusted with; to be fed up with; to run out of patience with

noun:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom ➜ 不立文字

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

noun:

• sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples

noun:

• navigability; accessibility; ease of getting around ➜ 回遊【かいゆう】
• schooling behavior (in fish) ➜ 回遊【かいゆう】

noun:

• hygiene bureau; health bureau; board of health

noun:

• kan-on; Han reading; on reading of a kanji based on Tang dynasty Chinese ➜ 呉音【ごおん】・唐音【とうおん】

noun:

• autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator

noun:

• kokedama; moss ball; plant grown in a ball of soil covered in moss, held together with string

noun:

• sage; wise man; wise person; man of wisdom
• buddha; bodhisattva; enlightened priest - esp. 智者 - Buddhism term

noun:

• idea man; ideas man; person of ideas

noun:

• courage; guts; nerves of steel

noun:

• chance to win; opportunity to win; chance of victory

noun:

• stadial; stade; period of lower temperatures during an interglacial period

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism