noun:

• Lycaon; genus containing the African wild dog

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term

noun:

• shiba (Japanese breed of dog); shiba inu; brushwood dog

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cry wine and sell vinegar; to do deceptive advertisement; to put up a sheep's head and sell dog meat [literal] - idiom

expression / adjective:

• avoided by everybody; disliked by everybody; not even a dog will eat [literal]

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term ➜ シリウス

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - obscure term - Astronomy term ➜ 天狼星・シリウス

noun:

• fortunate person; lucky fellow; lucky dog

noun:

• keiskei fetterbush (Leucothoe keiskei); doghobble; dog hobble

noun:

• contrary person; sourpuss; dog-in-the-manger

expression / noun:

• backbiting of a coward; grumblings of a loser; the far-off bark of a retreating dog [literal] - idiom

noun:

• Kai; Kai ken; Japanese dog breed

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term ➜ シリウス

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to turn oneself into; to transform oneself into
• to disguise oneself as
• to change radically; to metamorphose
• to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

noun:

• eleventh sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Dog, 7pm-9pm, west-northwest, September)

noun:

• lie of a (dog's) hair
• type; sort
• lineage; breeding - colloquialism

noun:

• Okinawan lion (or lion dog) statue placed as talisman against evil at entrances and on roofs - しーしー and しし are col. ➜ 獅子

noun:

• Great Dane (type of dog)

noun:

• pomeranian (dog) - From German "Spitz"

noun:

• Akita (breed of dog)

noun:

• borzoi (breed of dog) - From Russian "borzoy"

noun:

• verbal command (in dog training) ➜ 視符
• sound part of a semasio-phonetic kanji ➜ 形声文字【けいせいもじ】

noun:

• pug (variety of dog)

noun:

• "No." (Zhaozhou's answer to the koan "Does a dog have Buddha nature?") - Buddhism term ➜ 狗子仏性

noun:

• boarhound (dog)