noun:

• transvestite; drag queen - From English "new half"
• transwoman; male-to-female transsexual

noun:

• severe attack; bitter (harsh) criticism
• stick used to strike inattentive Zen meditators

noun / ~する noun:

• instructions sent in response to a question (from an embassy, consulate, etc.)

noun:

• letters-to-the-editor column; readers' section
• space for correspondence, messages, etc.

noun:

• foreword to a collection of poems; preface; explanatory notes; captions

noun:

• paying loan installments whenever one happens to have money (instalments)

noun:

• proximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the speaker, i. e., kore, koko, kochira) - Linguistics term

adverb:

• with all due respect ...; I venture to say ...; Excuse me, but ...

noun:

• standing (for a long period of time); continuing to stand

noun:

• outdoor fire with dense smoke to repel mosquitoes; mosquito-fumigation

noun:

• purification rite (esp. one held prior to a Shinto event)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to make a circle (e.g. draw, paint, describe, walk, drive, etc.)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

noun:

• older brother - honorific language

pronoun:

• you (in ref. to male of greater age or status) - epistolary style - honorific language ➜ 小弟

expression / adjective:

• not at all inferior to; rival or surpass; compare favorably (with)

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to have one's heart touched (by something very moving)

noun / ~する noun:

• focus of one's attention (on a specific field); commitment to something

noun:

• ten highest ranked maegashira wrestlers certain to wrestle against san'yaku ranks - Sumo term

noun:

• Yokozuna Deliberation Committee; body that recommends promotion of wrestlers to grand champions - Sumo term

noun:

• slapping hands in front of the opponent's face to confuse him - Sumo term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop the opponent by pressing one's head into his chest - Sumo term

noun:

• caltrop (spiked device scattered to maim infantry and horses); calthrop; caltrap

noun / adjectival noun:

• stubbornly sticking to old ways; narrow-mindedly rejecting other people's views - four character idiom

expression:

• At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius) - four character idiom

noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence - four character idiom ➜ 首鼠