adverb:

• suddenly and in a loud voice (e.g. sobbing) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• wrestler's belt used in a bout - Sumo term

noun:

• on-board device (e.g. in prepaid road toll system)

noun:

• fine chemical (high precision chemicals, typically used in pharmaceutical products)

noun:

• lookup (e.g. in a dictionary, address list, etc.)

noun:

• decorative portable shrine; float used in festivals - not often used in Kyoto - Kansai dialect ➜ 山車【だし】

noun:

• low kick (e.g. in fighting)

noun / suffix:

• general affairs section (e.g. in a company); operations division

noun / ~する noun:

• arrival on location (esp. used in transport industries, police, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 現地到着

noun:

• information on space availability in a parking lot (car park) - four character idiom

noun:

• prying tool used in interior decoration - From English "interior bar"

noun:

• Southern Buddhism (as practiced in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia) ➜ 北方仏教

noun:

• small vessel or bowl in which sake cups are rinsed ➜ 杯洗

noun:

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (abolished in 1995); GATT

noun:

• straw or hay (laid out in barns for livestock) - obscure term

noun:

• (mobile phone) number portability (introduced to Japan in October 2005) ➜ ナンバーポータビリティー

noun:

• lek (communal ground used by birds in mating season); lekking

noun:

• nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land - Buddhism term

noun:

• pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon) - obscure term ➜ 貝多羅葉

noun:

• off topic (e.g. in a web forum) ➜ スレッド

noun / ~する noun:

• multi-post (as frowned upon in newsgroups and web forums) - IT term

noun:

• three bonds (in Confucianism: master & servant, father & son, husband & wife)

noun:

• single kanji dictionary (usu. for use in an Input Method)

noun:

• three non-rain light cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

particle:

• only; just ➜ 切り【きり】
• since; after - usu. in a negative sentence
• remaining (in a particular state)