noun:

• matrilineal emperor of Japan; emperor (either male or female) whose mother is (was) a member of the Imperial family but whose father is (was) not - four character idiom ➜ 女性天皇

noun:

• bamboo growing along a river bank
• Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake
• Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• prostitute; the life of a prostitute - archaism

expression / adverb:

• at every opportunity; for each and every thing that crops up; with every little thing; whenever possible; whenever the chance arises; at every turn

adverb:

• sound of a small wave hitting the shore; sound of a whip; sound of a slap - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fling off; to throw off; to case aside; to abandon; to throw to the winds

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to disturb the water; to wake a sleeping dog; to wake a sleeping child [literal]

noun:

• same period of last year; the same month a year ago; year-ago month

noun:

• dead end; cul-de-sac; blind alley; no through road (i.e. on signage)
• end; end of the road; end point; as far as one can go

noun:

• colouring; coloring; shade of colour; shade of color
• sex appeal (esp. women); interest in the opposite sex; sensuality; seductiveness; glamor; glamour; sexual passion
• romance; poetry; charm
• desire; interest; inclination; ambition

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

expression:

• experience is the best teacher; custom makes all things easy; you learn best by doing; practice makes perfect; it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught [literal]

adjectival noun:

• seeming to be for a certain reason; seeming to indicate there are special circumstances; seeming to indicate there is more than meets the eye

adjectival noun / noun:

• no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken
• hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless
• cannot; must not; not allowed

noun:

• neutral point (in go); intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to partition; to divide; to mark off; to itemize
• to direct; to take control; to manage; to take responsibility
• to settle accounts
• to toe the mark

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be sharp; to be keen; to be on the ball; to have a mind like a steel trap; to be clever - idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• other (place, thing, person); the rest
• outside; beyond - esp. 外 - usually written using kana alone

adverbial noun:

• nothing except; nothing but; nothing apart from; nothing aside from; no choice (but to) - as 〜ほか〜ない, usu. after より or the dictionary form of a verb - usually written using kana alone ➜ ほかない
• besides...; in addition to... - often as ほかに

conjunction:

• cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time

noun:

• not holding on; not using the hands; letting go one's hold
• lack of reserve (in expressing one's emotions); lack of restraint; openly (saying)

noun:

• Buddhist center for study and meditation; monastery; temple - abbreviation of 栴檀林 - Buddhism term ➜ 栴檀
• Danrin style of haikai poetry (playful and oriented to the common person); Danrin school (of haikai poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 俳諧・談林風・談林派

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make one's story to seem coherent; to adjust one's story to fit the situation ➜ 辻褄を合わせる

noun:

• request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person

expression:

• I don't know for certain, but ...; I don't know if that's the reason, but ...

noun:

• child who has survived the suicide of a parent; child of a person who committed suicide

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• gold (Au); golden (color); gold (medal, cup)

~の noun / noun:

• valuable; of highest value

noun:

• money; gold coin
• Friday - abbreviation ➜ 金曜
• metal (fourth of the five elements) ➜ 五行
• Jin (dynasty of China; 1115-1234 CE)

noun / suffix noun:

• gold general - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 金将

noun:

• testicles - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 金玉【きんたま】

suffix / counter:

• karat; carat

noun:

• mysteries of one's master's art
• robes and a bowl (monk's key possessions auctioned off at his funeral); "transmission of the dharma from master to disciple (in Zen)" [figurative] - original meaning - Buddhism term