noun:

• post box on the front door; letterbox - From English "door post"

noun:

• railway carriage with the air conditioning set to a higher temperature

noun:

• railway carriage with the air conditioning set to a higher temperature ➜ 弱冷房車【じゃくれいぼうしゃ】

noun:

• treating somebody to one delicious meal after the other

expression:

• the samurai glories in honourable poverty; keep a stiff upper lip! - proverb

expression:

• preaching to the deaf; wind (blowing) into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 馬の耳に念仏

noun:

• interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues - Sports term ➜ セ・パ

noun:

• palm (of one's hand)
• skill
• scope of one's power
• one's intentions; one's plan
• one's hand (mahjong, card games, etc.)

noun:

• head of a garden; kindergarten principal; nursery school principal; park director (botanical garden); zoo director (zoological garden); head of a plantation

adverb / ~と adverb:

• snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと
• (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to spring out; to surge
• to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.)
• to feel emotions form (joy, bravery, etc.)
• to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)

noun:

• paper flowers ［紙花］
• paper flowers for a funeral ［紙花］ - archaism
• paper handed out as a means of congratulations in a red light district (as a promise of a future money donation) ➜ 小菊【こぎく】

noun:

• first runner (in a relay race)
• top-class runner
• vanguard (of a person); front line; cutting edge - idiom
• top runner (system of benchmarking against best-in-class performance)

adjectival noun / noun / ~する noun:

• bitter experience; learning from a bad experience; having had enough (of something unpleasant); having had a bellyful; being sick and tired (of something); being fed up

noun:

• Ministry of Health and Welfare (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) ➜ 厚生労働省

noun:

• 23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month)
• moon-waiting party held on 23rd night of a lunar month

noun:

• anti-wind (device, facility or measure)
• Saposhnikovia divaricata (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)
• Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine) ➜ 浜防風

noun:

• individual item (i.e. not part of a set); single article
• single item out of a set; one item from a set

noun:

• finding a way out of a potentially fatal situation; seeking a way out of a desperate situation - four character idiom

noun:

• trapdoor spider (any spider of family Ctenizidae); folding trapdoor spider (any spider of family Antrodiaetidae)

noun:

• body and soul; mind and body
• bottom of one's heart; depth of one's heart

adjective:

• cold (to the touch); chilly; icy; freezing Antonym: 熱い
• coldhearted; unfeeling; indifferent; unfriendly

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period

adjective:

• equal; identical; the same
• no different (to); just like; equivalent

adverb:

• before long; soon
• almost; nearly
• finally; in the end; eventually