noun:

• points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term

interjection:

• oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.

expression:

• hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• first wholesale produce market of the year (usu. auction of seafood, fruit, etc.)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to approve (of); to be in favor of; to be in favour of

noun:

• (of a woman) divorcing and moving back in with her parents - sensitive
• (of an employee) leaving a position only to return to it later
• (of a ship) leaving from and returning to the same port

noun:

• thin sheet of silver; silver foil; silverleaf
• censer; incense burner made of a sheet of mica hemmed by silver and placed on charcoal embers, used in incense-smelling ceremony ➜ 香道【こうどう】
• Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam ➜ 裏白の木【うらじろのき】

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to think (only used to speak of others) - honorific language
• to turn one's attention toward (only used to speak of others); to have feelings for (only used to speak of others)
• to honour the target of one's emotions

expression / noun:

• formidable person; shrewd person; someone not to be taken lightly; person of no common order
• certain person (e.g. whose name cannot be disclosed); someone
• that sort of person; that kind of person - archaism

noun:

• system
• lineage; ancestry; family line
• group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); party; school (of thought)
• close (evolutionary) relationship
• a population sharing a common ancestor (in genetics); strain (e.g. bacterial)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow wild; to run to waste; to become degenerate
• to become rough (of art, craft, etc.); to lose refinement; to deteriorate (of skill)

godan ~む verb / auxiliary verb / intransitive verb:

• to intensify (of wind, rain, etc.); to become more severe - usu. after -masu stem

noun:

• single crime that naturally consists of a number of incidences and is charged as only one count (e.g. habitual gambling)
• crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (e.g. insurrection) ➜ 集団犯罪

expression:

• blue are the hills that are far away; the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; far away smells of flowers; close up smells of dung [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; leadership; instruction; direction; coaching

noun:

• shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• turnout (of people)
• start (e.g. race, campaign, term of office)
• constant forward movement; initial charge; dash - Sumo term

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• usually; ordinarily
• continuous; 24-hour (e.g. observation, operation (of a machine), care (of patient)); always on

noun:

• sharpness; cutting ability
• quickness (of wit); incisiveness; technical proficiency; skill
• peppiness (of a ball) - in ball sports

noun:

• chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook - Kantō dialect ➜ 板場【いたば】
• area of a kitchen that contains the chopping board - orig. meaning

noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to only one child - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• giving up children for adoption or apprenticeship, etc. (out of poverty); reducing the number of mouths [literal]

noun:

• Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jinmu's reign in 660 BC ➜ 神武

noun:

• keeper of imperial archives
• worker skilled in the brewing of sake or soy sauce

noun:

• biographical notes and character sketches of prominent individuals, arranged according to place of birth or origin

noun:

• winter-time practice of eating meat of animals such as boar and deer to ward off cold

noun:

• twist; spin
• ingenuity; sophistication (e.g. of writing style)
• wrapped offering (of money) ➜ お捻り【おひねり】
• twisting throw - Sumo term