noun:

• compromised shaku (compromise between the Kyouhou shaku and the Matajirou shaku; approx. 30.3 cm) - archaism

noun:

• ANZAC; Anzac; Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (WWI)
• Anzac biscuit (type of oatmeal biscuit) ➜ アンザックビスケット

noun:

• unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water - Food term ➜ 粥

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be indicated as the winner of a bout by the raising of the referee's fan - Sumo term
• to be declared the winner - idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• House of Representatives and House of Councillors; both houses of the Diet ➜ 衆参両院【しゅうさんりょういん】

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

noun:

• comparing autumn leaves to a garment
• layered garments that mimic the colours of autumn leaves (worn from the 9th to the 11th month of the lunar calendar)

noun:

• carat; unit of weight for jewels and pearls, 200mg
• karat (measure of purity of gold); carat

adverbial noun / noun:

• all over the country; throughout the land; every nook and cranny of the land - four character idiom

noun:

• go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese ➜ 漢音【かんおん】・唐音【とうおん】・呉【ご】

noun / ~の noun:

• certain amount; some ［なにがし］ - usu. in the form なにがしか

pronoun:

• certain person; Mr So-and-so; a certain ...
• I; me ［なにがし］ - humble language - archaism

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

noun:

• senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest) - Shintō term ➜ 宮司・神主
• grasshopper; locust - obscure term

noun:

• breakfast set (often a drink and toast); breakfast special; special breakfast offer - From English "morning set"

noun:

• dark figure (esp. of crime); dark number; hidden figure; difference between the actual and reported figure

adverb:

• noisily; clamorously; boisterously - onomatopoeia
• incessantly (complaining, pestering, etc.); going on and on; making a fuss (of something); playing up - onomatopoeia
• loudly (crying); wailing; bawling; howling - onomatopoeia

noun:

• in-home separation; quasi-divorce; marriage that has broken down but where the wife and husband still live together without getting a divorce

noun:

• macrobiotics; prevention and cure of disease through diet (as expounded by Sagen Ishizuka (1850-1909))
• taking nourishing food; eating a balanced diet - abbreviation ➜ 食養生【しょくようじょう】
• dietetics ➜ 食事療法学

noun:

• non-return-to-zero change-on-ones recording; NRZ-1; non-return-to-zero (mark) recording; NRZ(M) - IT term

noun:

• feelings toward other people; sensitivity to other people's feelings; feelings one gives to other people through interpersonal relationships - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

expression:

• every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop [literal] - proverb ➜ 餠

noun:

• documents to be presented; work to be submitted; submitted document; submitted work

noun / ~の noun:

• worldly-minded person; vulgar person; philistine; snob; vulgar and ostentatious person