adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• half-year (sometimes esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment) ➜ 一季
• half of a season

noun:

• musical (dramatic) piece in several acts; type of koto solo; lively type of shamisen song

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• intangible; incorporeal
• by force; outrageous; cruel; unreasonable ➜ 無理
• making light of; making fun of

noun / ~する noun:

• compounding of medicine; dispensing (medicine)
• dispensation (e.g. of heaven); providence; combining; arranging; putting together

noun / ~する noun:

• alliance (esp. originally of individual member states of the Six Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty) ➜ 合従・秦・六国

noun:

• opening (of a bottle); broaching
• beginning; opening; commencement (e.g. of sales); first sale

noun:

• Massacre of the Innocents; episode of infanticide by Herod that appears in the New Testament

noun:

• Battle of Dan-no-ura; final battle of the Genpei War (1185)

noun:

• game played as a form of punishment by the loser of a contest

noun:

• Imjin War (1592-1597); Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea; battle(s) of Bunroku and Keicho

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• superficial learning; book learning; merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words - four character idiom

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of s-stem verbs; conjugation of the verb "suru"

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of s-stem verbs; conjugation of the verb "suru" - abbreviation ➜ サ行変格活用

adjectival noun / ~の noun / suffix:

• being fond of; having a liking for
• to the liking of; favored by; popular with

~の noun:

• (of luggage, etc.) able to be taken into the cabin of the aircraft; carry-on

noun:

• exchanging clothing at the time of laundering - archaism
• (money) laundering
• moving average method of valuation
• reassessing

noun:

• Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant)
• paper made from the fibre of this plant - abbreviation ➜ 雁皮紙

noun:

• writing some characters (esp. complex kanji) of a compound as kana instead of kanji - e.g. しょう油, 宝くじ

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• proceeding quickly; flying (of time); rapidly; with great strides
• running quickly (of a horse) - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• ceremony where the Emperor would inspect the records of attendance and absence of officials - archaism

noun:

• tragus (small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear); tragi; antilobium

noun:

• deer raised upon the grounds of a shrine (who serve as messengers of the gods)

noun:

• mind-made body; body as born out of a certain kind of intent or mindfulness - Buddhism term

noun:

• ingest; process of capturing, transferring or importing different types of video, audio, or image media