noun:

• time to buy (on markets); buying opportunity ➜ 買い時

noun:

• tendency to not get married; declining marriage rate ➜ 晩婚化

noun:

• pasturing (e.g. cattle); turning loose (to graze) ➜ 放し飼い【はなしがい】

noun:

• loan with interest made to farmers - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• pruning tree branches to encourage new growth

noun:

• biosatellite; satellite designed to carry life in space

noun:

• city built according to the principles of fengshui ➜ 風水

noun:

• daikon, etc. trimmings, usu. added to rice - Food term

noun / ~する noun:

• being reluctant to sell; holding off on selling

noun:

• baby talk (used in talking to young children)

expression:

• ideally; if one were to wish for more

noun:

• writing from left to right (esp. horizontally)

auxiliary verb:

• used to indicate respect for the listener (or reader) - polite language ➜ ます

adverb / ~と adverb:

• a tiny bit; just a smidgin; a wee bit; very slightly - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; pleasantly; (a weight) off one's shoulder - onomatopoeia ➜ すっきり
• (wearing, etc. something) elegantly; smartly; stylishly; in a refined manner - onomatopoeia

expression:

• any port will do in a storm; when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune [literal] - proverb

noun:

• top of a flight of stairs; exit involving a descent (e.g. from a bus)

noun:

• leading wave (of a tsunami, i.e. when a wave crest reaches land before a trough) ➜ 引き波

expression:

• the world is a scene of constant changes; a mulberry field changes into a blue sea [literal] - proverb

noun:

• measuring container; measure
• box (seating at a theatre, etc.)
• square on a grid; cell of a grid - esp. マス
• square bearing block (at the top of a pillar) ［斗］

noun:

• someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel

noun:

• keitai-mail friend (someone one keeps in touch with only by typing messages with one's thumb) - obscure term - slang ➜ 親指

adverb / ~と adverb:

• lightly (floating); buoyantly - onomatopoeia
• puffing (on a pipe, cigarette, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• tooting (a trumpet, horn, etc.); blowing (a flute, whistle) - onomatopoeia

expression:

• many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; even dust becomes a mountain if piled together [literal] - proverb

noun / prefix noun:

• female; woman; female sex - can be blunt when used alone ➜ 男【おとこ】

noun:

• female lover; girlfriend; mistress; (someone's) woman