noun:

• having a long torso and short legs; long-bodied and short-legged - four character idiom

noun:

• second guest of honour (at a tea ceremony); second guest of honor ➜ 正客

expression:

• a bit better than; not much more than; not much different from - idiom

interjection:

• look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute; hold on - familiar language - female language

noun:

• cutting; tearing off; cutting off; clipping
• cutting (for a railroad, highway, etc.); cut
• robbery with assault; burglary

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• many flowers blooming in profusion; a gathering of many beautiful women (talented people); simultaneous emergence of many talents and achievements - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to set off an explosive
• to start a fire under someone; to motivate someone with rough words

expression / ichidan verb:

• to draw the line (between two situations); to make a clear distinction ➜ けじめ
• to take clear responsibility for (mistakes, etc.)

noun:

• washbasin; stoup or font for cleaning hands (esp. tea house, garden decoration, or for ablutions when visiting a shrine or temple) ➜ 手水舎

noun:

• koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres
• measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)

noun:

• sickle
• sickle-and-chain (weapon) - abbreviation ➜ 鎖鎌
• spear with curved cross-blades - abbreviation ➜ 鎌槍
• gooseneck tenon and mortise joint - abbreviation ➜ 鎌継
• noisiness - archaism
• part of a fish around the gills - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• ready fire-power; battle-ready forces; immediate asset (to a team or firm); someone who can be an immediately effective player or worker - Business, Sports term

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out - also has an archaic reading of かどいで
• starting a new life; starting life anew

noun:

• the three realms of existence - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界・色界・無色界
• the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三千大千世界
• past, present and future existences - Buddhism term ➜ 三世【さんぜ】

suffix:

• far-off ...; distant ...

noun:

• egg slow-boiled so that the yolk is hard but the white is still soft (traditionally cooked in a hot spring)

noun:

• complete emptiness (i.e. as a denial of the inherent existence of all things); nirvana (where this emptiness is realized) - Buddhism term

adjectival noun / noun:

• quiet and lonely - archaism

noun:

• lower government office (ritsuryo system)
• servant of a higher ranking person (during the middle ages); retainer
• servant of an urban family
• serf ➜ 被官百姓

noun:

• method of dyeing, developed in Okinawa, in which a single stencil is used to produce richly polychromatic designs; traditional dyed cloth from Okinawa

noun:

• chasing down; pushing down; deposing; ousting
• sacrificing to create a shortage of liberties, then capturing (in the game of go)

noun:

• traditional horse-racing; originally two horses head-to-head or ten at a time, esp. May 5th event at Kamigamo shrine

expression:

• having one's good intentions backfire dangerously; causing harm when trying to prevent it; trying to put out a fire while carrying kindling [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• putting money aside; savings; deposit (e.g. in a bank)
• accumulated surplus of wins; wins in the bank - Baseball term

noun:

• national language
• Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan) ➜ 国語科
• native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

noun / ~する noun:

• calculation; computation; counting; reckoning; count
• bill; check; account; payment (of a bill); settlement (of an account)
• consideration; allowance

noun / ~する noun:

• dropping out of school; withdrawing from school
• expulsion from school; dismissal
• leaving school (university, etc.) after completing a course