noun / ~する noun:

• preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; inducement to stay
• being stranded; grounding
• level dyeing ［足留め・足留］

adverb:

• sound of heavy breathing - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• blowing on something (e.g. to cool it down)

noun:

• country's official writing system; native script
• kana ➜ 仮名【かな】
• kanji that originated in Japan (as opposed to China) ➜ 漢字

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

noun:

• infectious disease which by law a physician must report to the authorities within 24 hours of diagnosis

noun:

• surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies

noun / ~する noun:

• rising and going to bed; daily life

adverb:

• all the time; constantly; whether awake or asleep

noun:

• the hard way; striving for enlightenment through one's own efforts (as opposed to reliance on Amitabha) - Buddhism term ➜ 易行道

noun:

• player put on starting list to be replaced by another when the opponent's pitcher is known

noun:

• modal shift (esp. changes in freight transport, e.g. from air to sea)

noun:

• red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major) - colloquialism
• fish given to a tournament winner as congratulations - Sumo, Food term

noun:

• being tough on the outside but soft at heart; a faint-hearted person pretending to be brave - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building); plunging to one's death

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to blindstitch the inside of a fold with (equally spaced) threadings (i.e. pulling shoe lacing tight)

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

noun:

• "limit of heat" solar term (approx. Aug. 23, when the weather is said to start cooling down) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity") - obscure term ➜ オッカムの剃刀

noun:

• good turning point number (10000, 12345 etc., often referring to web site visit counts)

noun:

• link banner (graphic or logo provided for use in linking to web site) - IT term

noun:

• stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist) - Ōsaka dialect ➜ 才取会員

noun:

• block booking; system where distributors sell multiple films to cinemas as a unit ➜ フリーブッキング

noun:

• Japanese huchen (Hucho perryi) (salmonoid fish found in Hokkaido that grows up to 1.5 meters)

noun:

• spotted unicornfish (Naso maculatus, species of Pacific tang found from Japan and Lord Howe Island to Hawaii)

noun:

• threadfin scat (Rhinoprenes pentanemus, species of Western Pacific spadefish found from Papua New Guinea to northern Australia)