~と adverb:

• with a snap; (break) cleanly - onomatopoeia ➜ びしっと
• (reject) sternly; flatly
• smartly (e.g. of dressing up well).

noun:

• lighted lamp (or candle, etc.) provided as a religious offering

noun:

• erection of a pillar by sinking it directly into the ground

noun:

• empathetically putting oneself in the place of a handicapped person - From English "cap handy"

noun:

• knit top with a loose turtleneck or cowl neck design - From English "off turtle"

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)

noun:

• marriage-oriented society (in which most people are married, usu. at a young age)

noun:

• boiled red prawn, shrimp, lobster, etc. (sometimes used as a New Year decoration) ➜ 海老

noun:

• curtain separating a central room from the aisles around it (in palatial-style architecture) ➜ 母屋【もや】・庇

noun:

• corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 中門・寝殿造り

noun:

• corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 中門・寝殿造り

noun:

• long segment of a noh play forming its musical highlight

prefix noun:

• wrong; improper; indecent ➜ 曲者

adverb / ~と adverb:

• tingling sensation (e.g. in a leg); feeling numb; painful tingle; throbbing - onomatopoeia
• noisily; ears ringing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process

noun:

• promotional model (e.g. at a trade show); booth babe - From English "event companion"

noun:

• Out-of-Africa theory (positing a recent African origin for modern humans)

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class) - Kansai dialect ➜ 体育座り

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying a portable shrine with arms stretched out (i.e. without shouldering it)

expression / ~の noun:

• trivial; insignificant; meager; meagre; that little amount; such a small extent

expression / noun:

• a long way off; matter for the future; not going to happen anytime soon

noun:

• pair (as part of a winning hand, together with four melds); eyes - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 対子

noun:

• blessing of man; winning with a discard in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• blessing of earth; winning with a self-drawn tile in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• pointing towards somebody or something with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• something wider than it is high
• artwork with a horizontal aspect (e.g. scroll)