noun:

• Test of English as a Foreign Language; TOEFL

noun / ~する noun:

• placing in a list (top ten, popularity, sales, etc.) - From English "rank in"

noun:

• yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram) ➜ 卦

noun:

• inverted copper or iron bell shaped like a bowl (sounded when reciting sutras)

noun:

• kuruma prawn (esp. a small one, i.e. less than 10 cm in length) ➜ 車海老

noun:

• couchette; non-private sleeper car or berth on a European train - From French

noun:

• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - archaism ➜ 鯤

noun:

• long-handled Chinese spear bearing a small flag - Buddhism term ➜ 鉾
• banner; hanging ［どう］

noun:

• person who judges which god or spirit has taken possession of a miko - archaism - obscure term - Shintō term

interjection:

• exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen)

noun:

• scolding or threatening with a shout

noun:

• patch of plants or shrubs (e.g. on a steep rocky surface)

expression:

• waking or sleeping; constantly; at all times; twenty-four hours a day

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get stiff legs (after walking or standing up for a long time) - idiom

expression:

• nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb

expression:

• appearances can be deceiving; don't judge a book by its cover - proverb

prefix:

• greater (of equal court ranks); upper; senior - also written as 正 - archaism ➜ 従【ひろい】

noun / adjectival noun:

• a great deal; very much ➜ 大いなる・大いに

noun:

• ornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite) ➜ 書院造り

noun:

• choir singing from music - From English "choral reading"
• reading aloud in a group

noun / ~する noun:

• explosive boil (after a liquid has been heated to its boiling point); bumping

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• Akhal-Teke, a breed of horses originating in Turkmenistan

noun:

• square framing (in a house, temple, screen, etc.)

expression / noun:

• seasonal greeting; conventional opening phrase in a letter, appropriate to the season

noun:

• knit top with a loose turtleneck or cowl neck - From English "French turtle" ➜ オフタートル

noun:

• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)