noun:

• paddle shift; paddle shifting (e.g. on a car)

expression:

• life is but a dream; this too shall pass; everything is transient - proverb ➜ 浮世

expression:

• to study and not think is a waste; learning without thinking is useless - from The Analects of Confucius - proverb

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• (for a conversation) to wander from the subject; to get off track

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 / ~する noun:

• (putting a song etc. on) endless repeat; endless repetition

noun / ~する noun:

• thoroughness; completeness; consistency
• thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

counter:

• counter for occurrences

noun:

• a time; an instance
• inning (baseball); round; game

noun / suffix noun:

• episode; chapter; instalment - colloquialism

noun:

• Hui (people) - abbreviation ➜ 回族
• Islam - abbreviation ➜ 回教

noun / prefix:

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

adjectival noun:

• run-down; shabby; junky

noun:

• corner
• segment (within a radio or TV program); session; column (newspaper, etc.)
• area; department; section

noun:

• mansion; palace; manor house; castle
• nobleman; noblewoman; dignitary - honorific language - archaism
• cabin (on a boat, carriage, etc.) ［やかた］ - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• admission (e.g. to a training institution, research establishment, social welfare facility, etc.); entrance
• imprisonment; internment; confinement

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

• wobbling; tottering; shaking; unstably; unsteadily - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wavering (e.g. over a decision); dithering; indecisively - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• boiling up - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• dizzily; giddily - onomatopoeia ➜ くらくら

noun:

• bodyguard; bouncer; guard
• bar (e.g. on a door); bolt
• stick or pole used for self-defence - orig. meaning

interjection:

• eh?; what?; oh?
• yes; that's correct ➜ はい

particle:

• strengthens a question, assertion, etc. - at sentence end - archaism ➜ かえ・ぞえ・わえ
• used when calling out to someone - after a noun, etc. - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving one's seat (before an event is over); excusing oneself (from a meeting, conversation, etc.)

noun:

• (tobacco) pipe with metal tipped stem - From Khmer "khsier"
• stolen train ride (only paying a local fare each end) ➜ 煙管乗り・煙管乗車

noun:

• high decorated building
• picture-perfect mansion; stately home that looks as if it were from a painting

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

noun:

• surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies

noun:

• water-filled bamboo tube which clacks against a stone when emptied; device for scaring birds from gardens ➜ 添水

noun:

• red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major) - colloquialism
• fish given to a tournament winner as congratulations - Sumo, Food term

noun:

• being tough on the outside but soft at heart; a faint-hearted person pretending to be brave - four character idiom

noun:

• protective household deity in Tōhoku, appearing as a red-faced child spirit with bobbed hair

noun / ~する noun:

• killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building); plunging to one's death