noun:

• care for the aged; elderly care; aged care

noun:

• skilled control of a spear; stabbing (someone) with a spear - orig. meaning
• victim; scapegoat; someone singled out (for punishment, etc.) ➜ 槍玉に挙げる

expression:

• don't be a sore loser; don't make excuses for your failures; a defeated general should not talk of strategy [literal] - proverb

expression:

• first "horse day" in any lunar month, but esp. the second lunar month; traditional day for worship at "fox deity" shrines

noun:

• first quotation for a stock at the first exchange meeting of the New Year
• initial share price during a public offering

noun:

• iron (for pressing clothes)
• hair iron; hair tong; curling tong

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be thirsty; to feel thirsty ➜ 喉が乾く
• to thirst for; to crave - often as 〜に渇いた

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a new shop
• opening a shop (for the day)

noun:

• test for a position in a company; company entrance test

noun:

• drying rice on a rack; rack for drying rice

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to yield; to give way to; to make way for

noun:

• blue film; early (1950s-) type of hardcore pornographic film usually filmed on 8 or 16mm film and often in black market circulation

noun:

• adult child; adult children; adult person psychologically traumatized from being raised in an abusive or dysfunctional family (e.g. by alcoholic parents)

noun:

• bonfire often in temple grounds, usu. of charms, talismans, New Year decorations, etc. - Shintō term
• ritual burning of money, cedar sticks, or other objects as an offering ➜ 護摩【ごま】

noun:

• soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch ➜ 濃餅

noun:

• little four winds; winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• heart; mind

noun / suffix:

• spirit; vitality; inner strength ➜ 愛郷心
• Chinese "Heart" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】
• friend - archaism

noun:

• being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets)
• going in one ear and out the other

noun:

• happi coat (esp. one designed in a western style); happy coat ➜ 法被

noun:

• outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo - abbreviation ➜ 外様大名
• outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group

noun / ~する noun:

• reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn out just as one wished; to play into the hands (of)

expression:

• It is justifiable to kill one (harmful) person to save the lives of many - four character idiom

expression:

• similar things turning up one after another; bamboo shoots after rain [literal]

noun:

• one of the accent patterns of Japanese words, with a rising and then falling pitch