noun:

• playboy; libertine; profligate; debauchee
• (professional) gambler
• person without a steady job; idler; freeloader

noun / suffix:

• temple (Buddhist) ［刹］

noun:

• central pillar of a pagoda ➜ 心柱【しんばしら】
• kshetra (realm, country); ksetra ［刹］ - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• unveiling a Buddhist image
• gambling
• revealing something that is supposed to remain hidden

noun:

• memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death - Buddhism term

noun:

• scion; cion; (horticultural) graft
• opportunity to continue a conversation

noun:

• interference with a public servant in the execution of his or her duties

noun:

• consolation money; compensation for breaking off relations (e.g. with a mistress); settlement

noun / ~する noun:

• crouching; formal crouch performed at the beginning of a sumo or kendo match - Sumo, Martial Arts term

noun:

• (historic) a temple in which women seeking release from marriage could take refuge

noun / ~する noun:

• (system of) extending complicity for a crime to the criminal's family members

noun:

• disposing of a case by placing an offender on probation or under supervision

noun:

• autograph or note of authentication written on a box containing an art work

noun:

• ancient Japanese characters (regarded today as created at a much more recent date)

noun:

• splint; brace; epithesis - Medicine term ➜ 副木【ふくぼく】
• splice; support (e.g. for a plant); prop ➜ 支柱【しちゅう】

noun:

• taking one's children along (to an event, into a new marriage, etc.)

noun:

• telephone number at which person without a phone can be reached

noun:

• parroting back; repeating (something one was told) like a parrot - oft. adv. as おうむ返しに

noun / ~する noun:

• (endlessly) doting (on someone); (constantly) petting (somebody) as if they were a pet - idiom

noun:

• feel; touch
• impression (of a person)
• most impressive passage; highlight; punch line - orig. meaning
• beginning - colloquialism

noun:

• yellow silk cloth with a dark striped or checkered pattern (from Hachijo island)

noun:

• ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 如是我聞
• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - abbreviation ➜ 十如是

noun:

• young mother (i.e. early twenties or younger, sometimes previously a juvenile delinquent) - ヤン is from ヤンキー or ヤング ➜ ヤンキー・ヤング

noun:

• left-over flesh on the spine of a fish (esp. tuna) or beef - Food term

noun:

• ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred) ➜ 浮遊霊

noun / ~する noun:

• joining elements so they mate or hook together (e.g. a clutch); engagement