noun:

• dormitory; dorm; residence hall; student residence ➜ 寮【りょう】・学生寮【がくせいりょう】
• multi-bed room shared with unrelated travelers (e.g. in inexpensive guesthouse)

noun:

• flag

suffix:

• tag indicating a future role or status for a character in anime, games, etc. (e.g. death, love, survival) - slang

noun:

• pilloried criminal exposed to public view; public scorn or humiliation; person shamed in front of others

noun:

• boy or doll dressed in ancient Chinese clothes
• hairstyle inspired by such a doll (esp. for female children) (Edo period)

adjectival noun / noun:

• covering; filled in; gapless; all over - usu. as べたに

prefix noun:

• complete; total - before a noun

adjectival noun:

• cliched; clichéd; hackneyed; corny; predictable - colloquialism

~の noun:

• plaintext - IT term

noun:

• solid printing; solid typesetting - abbreviation ➜ べた組み
• contact print - abbreviation ➜ べた焼き

noun:

• magnet school (public school offering special instruction in order to attract a more diverse student body)

noun:

• Chiloscyllium (genus of carpet sharks or bamboo sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with long snouts and subterminal nostrils)

noun:

• scoophead (Sphyrna media, species of little-known hammerhead shark found in tropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific)

noun:

• finelined surgeonfish (Acanthurus grammoptilus, species of Western Pacific tang found in the Philippines, Indonesia and north-western Australia)

noun:

• wooden board used on the ridge-ends of a roof instead of an onigawara tile (sometimes covered in copper sheeting) ➜ 鬼瓦

noun:

• event where schoolchildren wash their inkstones, brushes and desks the night before Tanabata to pray for success in their studies - obscure term ➜ 七夕

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】・ピー柿【ピーかき】

noun:

• short arched (traditionally bamboo) fence around walls of traditional townhouses, esp. in Kyoto (protects lower walls from fouling or damage)

noun:

• obstruction markings (red or yellow and white markings on structures taller than 60 meters in accordance with Japanese aviation law)

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb / prefix noun:

• occurring frequently; being susceptible; age, body part, group of people, etc. in which a disease or condition occurs especially frequently - Medicine term

noun:

• claw crane; arcade game in which a crane is used to pick up stuffed toys, etc. - From English "crane game"

noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• taking multiple medications; taking medicine and certain foods together or in close proximity (which should be avoided)

noun:

• medal; shield; badge
• card on which dharani (etc.) are written ➜ 陀羅尼
• notice board (in a Zen temple)
• tile (mahjong, dominos, etc.) ➜ 牌【パイ】

noun:

• (rocky) seashore party; seashore festival ➜ 磯遊び
• celebration in honor of the dragon god by fishermen after a good haul

noun:

• playing shogi with a handicap of the rook and bishop
• participating in a contest while missing key players, pieces, etc.

noun:

• semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 12.5cm by 17.5cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】
• late Edo-period novelette depicting life in the red-light district ➜ 洒落本