noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i

noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

noun:

• parting of the ways; the way to hades; one's way after the parting

noun:

• middle of the road; on the road
• on the way (to one's destination)

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun / ~の noun:

• middle of the road; centrism; moderation; golden mean

noun:

• the middle (of what one is doing); half-way
• middle way; middle path - Buddhism term

noun:

• thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot ➜ 絹皮【きぬかわ】

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a track (of a train); arrival of a train (at a platform)
• passing the post (horseracing); crossing the finish line

adverb:

• anywhere; for all time; to the ends of the earth
• through thick and thin; come hell or high water; to the bitter end; to the utmost
• persistently; stubbornly
• in all respects; on every point
• thoroughly; exhaustively

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to manage; to control; to maneuver; to steer
• to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument)
• to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
• to manipulate (a person, public opinion, etc.); to pull the strings; to control from the shadows; to mastermind

noun:

• tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a hanzi to show the tone in Chinese

noun:

• tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a hanzi to show the tone in Chinese ➜ 声点

noun:

• dish placed on the far side of the serving table (kaiseki cuisine); side dishes at a banquet (e.g. sashimi, salad, vinegared dish; not rice or soup) - Food term ➜ 懐石
• resting one's forehead on the chest of one's opponent and grabbing his belt - Sumo term

noun:

• gold wheel (highest of the three layered wheels that support the earth above the primordial void) - Buddhism term
• gold wheel-turning sage king - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 金輪王

noun:

• here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
• these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
• these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪道【さんあくどう】
• three evils (prostitution, drugs and venereal diseases) ［さんあく］

noun:

• seafood; products of the sea; marine products; fruits of the sea ➜ 山の幸

noun:

• top of the foot; instep; dorsum of the foot; dorsum pedis

noun:

• seafood; products of the sea; marine products; fruits of the sea ➜ 山幸

noun:

• first wind of the season (esp. the first wind of autumn) - archaism

noun:

• the Seven Wise Men (of Greece); the Seven Sages of Greece ➜ 七賢

~と adverb / adverb:

• whistling (of the wind); blowing
• fluttering (in the wind); waving; flapping; flying
• tottering; staggering
• aimlessly; wandering about; roaming
• aloof from the world; easygoing; transcendental; detached

noun / ~の noun:

• standard; set; routine; regular; usual; conventional; stereotyped; same old ➜ 決まり

noun:

• empty air; sky
• shunyata; emptiness; the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon - Buddhism term
• air force - abbreviation ➜ 空軍

noun / adjectival noun:

• fruitlessness; meaninglessness
• void (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大

~の noun:

• empty (e.g. set) - Mathematics term

noun / suffix noun:

• room
• wife (of someone of high rank) - obscure term
• scabbard - obscure term
• Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】