noun:

• washing place (e.g. for laundry or tableware)
• place for washing oneself in a bathroom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise to the surface; to surface
• to stand out (e.g. against a background)

noun:

• year of a person's birth ［せいねん］

noun / prefix noun:

• number of years since one's birth; age - e.g. 生年35歳

expression / ichidan verb:

• to warm the bench; to stay on the bench during a sports match

noun:

• previous work; preceding work
• first crop grown in a double-cropped field; preceding crop

noun:

• personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character - four character idiom

noun:

• advancing in the face of death; having a narrow escape from the jaw of death - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to dream of making a fortune at one stroke; to dream of getting rich quickly

noun:

• resting one's chopsticks across the top of one's bowl (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• flunitrazepam (hypnotic drug formerly marketed as Rohypnol); roofies (flunitrazepam used as a date-rape drug)

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

noun:

• chamber; room
• home of a monk; monk ➜ 坊・坊
• Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】

expression / adjective:

• there is no need to ...
• never happens; there is never a time when

expression:

• pay it forward; paying it forward; repaying a good deed by doing good for others

noun:

• policeman; cop - esp. お巡り ➜ お巡りさん
• walking in a circle (dog trick) - esp. お回り
• rounds (doctor, police beat, etc.) - archaism
• vegetables that accompany rice (secret language of court ladies) - archaism ➜ おかず・女房言葉

noun:

• interpreter (languages, events, etc.) ➜ 通訳者・説明者
• interpreter; software that decodes and executes a high-level language (e.g. Java, Python, PHP) - IT term

noun:

• rim of a volcano, esp. Mt. Fuji
• wrestling ring - Sumo term
• dire or risky situation with no room for error; sink-or-swim position

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:

• female student or graduate of Waseda University
• woman who allegedly pursues a career at the expense of love, feminine interests, etc. - derogatory term

noun:

• leniency policy; addition to Japan's antitrust law that allows lower fines for the first company involved in a cartel, etc. to admit their involvement - Law term ➜ 独占禁止法

noun:

• position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); open interest; outstanding account; sales or purchase contract

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to finish writing; to complete
• to write down (e.g. a list); to write out

noun / ~する noun:

• count; counting

noun:

• count of balls and strikes - Baseball term ➜ ボールカウント

noun / ~する noun:

• count (after a knock-down in boxing) - Sports term ➜ カウントアウト

noun:

• count (of radioactivity)

noun / ~する noun:

• going to war; departure for the front
• departure for military service (in response to a draft)

noun:

• Basic English; version of English with a maximum of 850 basic words