noun:

• capital letter
• first character of a dictionary entry
• matrix (printing)
• kanji corresponding to furigana

noun / ~の noun:

• atavism; throwback; reappearance of an earlier characteristic; skipping a generation; reversion to ancestral type

noun:

• thin strip of wood smeared with sulfur, used to light a fire

noun:

• storyboard (film, television); design for a series of movie scenes - abbreviation ➜ コンティニュイティ

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have training bouts with one's junior during practice (of a senior wrestler) - Sumo term

noun:

• a sense of release (as if one had wings and were riding on air) - four character idiom

noun:

• center of a noh stage

noun / ~の noun:

• Shōchū era (1324.12.9-1326.4.26) ［しょうちゅう］

noun:

• money needed to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage ➜ 身請け

noun:

• Cain complex (jealousy of a sibling, ultimately leading to hatred)

noun:

• plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution

adjective:

• insufficient; not enough; lacking Antonym: 足りる
• dim-witted; slow; one brick short of a full load

noun:

• crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (e.g. insurrection)

noun:

• Little's disease (i.e. spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• clanging (of a bell); jangling; ding-dong - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• continuously; incessantly; one after another; rapidly; plentifully; freely - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• buying a large amount (esp. of collectible items aimed at kids, such as manga) - colloquialism

noun:

• buddha-body within a practitioner (esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• altruistic manifested form of Mahavairocana (New Shingon) ➜ 本地身

noun:

• joining both chopsticks together and using them as a spoon (breach of chopstick etiquette)

~と adverb:

• with a snap; (break) cleanly - onomatopoeia ➜ びしっと
• (reject) sternly; flatly
• smartly (e.g. of dressing up well).

noun:

• long segment of a noh play forming its musical highlight

prefix noun:

• wrong; improper; indecent ➜ 曲者

expression / adjectival noun:

• clear-cut and straightforward - idiom
• (of a person) forward-thinking; honest; upright; frank - idiom

noun:

• Out-of-Africa theory (positing a recent African origin for modern humans)

noun:

• pair (as part of a winning hand, together with four melds); eyes - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 対子

noun:

• pointing towards somebody or something with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• grilled slices of lotus root, eggplant, etc. with a filling (usu. minced meat) - Food term