noun:

• small folding knife with a rectangular blade used to sharpen pencils ➜ ミッキーナイフ

noun:

• region code (e.g. of a DVD)

noun:

• stigmatized property; real estate where a crime, death, etc. has occurred

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】

expression:

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

noun:

• farting into one's hand; cupping a fart

noun:

• long strips of decorative paper or leather attached to a matoi ➜ 纏

expression:

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

noun:

• mochi used for the celebration of a child's fiftieth day ➜ 五十日の祝

noun / ~する noun:

• negotiating for permission to film (in a specific location) ➜ ロケ

noun / ~する noun:

• turning into a slum; becoming run-down; slumism; slumification

noun:

• room key (e.g. at a hotel)

noun / ~する noun:

• standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself
• overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability; pushing to the limit

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break; to snap; to be cut; to split; to crack
• to be injured
• to wear out; to be worn out
• to break; to burst; to collapse
• to wear off; to stop working; to go dead
• to expire (time limit, etc.); to run out; to become due
• to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of
• to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship); to break up; to have severed ties; to be cut off; to be disconnected
• to cut well; to be sharp
• to be sharp-minded; to be keen; to be shrewd; to be quick-witted; to be able
• to be short of; to drop under (a certain figure); to beat (e.g. a record time)
• to dry off
• to curve; to veer
• to shuffle (cards)
• to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip - colloquialism ➜ キレる

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to be able to do completely - after the -masu stem of a verb - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• staying awake on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle (to prevent the three worms from reporting one's wrongdoings and shortening one's lifespan), while worshipping Sakra, the Blue-Faced Vajra, or Sarutahiko ➜ 三尸

noun:

• rite seeing off the gods on their way to Izumo Shrine (held on the last night of the ninth lunar month and first night of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神迎え
• exorcism

noun:

• person in the online community who seeks to identify others from the information they post online, or who tries to identify places and objects that appear in comics or games - derogatory term - slang

noun:

• opposite side; bottom; other side; side hidden from view; undersurface; reverse side Antonym: 表【おもて】
• rear; back; behind
• lining; inside
• in the shadows; behind the scenes; offstage; behind one's back
• more (to something than meets the eye); hidden side (e.g. of one's personality); unknown circumstances; different side
• proof ➜ 裏付け
• opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.); contrary ➜ 裏をかく
• inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.)
• bottom (of an inning); last half (of an inning) - Baseball term Antonym: 表【おもて】

noun:

• back; spine
• reverse; rear side
• height; stature
• ridge (of a mountain)

noun / ~する noun:

• graduation; completion (e.g. of a course)
• outgrowing something; moving on (from)

noun / ~する noun:

• concentration; focusing; convergence; centralization; integration; gathering together

noun:

• within a collection of works

noun:

• pine tree (Pinus spp.)
• highest (of a three-tier ranking system) ➜ 梅【うめ】・竹【たけ】

noun:

• number (in a series)
• (one's) turn
• watch; guard; lookout
• bout; match - Sumo term

noun:

• hostel; dormitory
• bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制