expression / noun:

• dark circles around the eyes; periorbital dark circles ➜ 隈

noun:

• origin; source - usu. 元
• base; basis; foundation; root - esp. 基
• cause - also 因, 原
• ingredient; material - esp. 素
• (somebody's) side; (somebody's) location ［元］
• original cost (or capital, principal, etc.)
• (plant) root; (tree) trunk
• first section of a waka ➜ 和歌

counter:

• counter for blades of grass, tree trunks, etc., and for falcons (in falconry) ［本］

noun:

• handle (chopsticks, brush, etc.); grip

noun:

• simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)

noun:

• (courteous) invitation; call

~する noun:

• to invite (with the utmost courtesy, e.g. an expert or professor to give a lecture)

noun:

• rising intonation; upward inflection
• rising (sales, tendency, etc.); getting better; improvement
• feet-first somersault hanging from the horizontal bar ➜ 逆上がり

noun:

• Chinese lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis)
• 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day

noun:

• simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)

noun / ~する noun:

• striding; swaggering; strutting
• lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around

noun:

• large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting) - From English "catch copy"

expression:

• constant dripping wears away the stone; little strokes fell great oaks; limited strength, when persistently applied, can accomplish great feats - four character idiom

noun:

• manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) ➜ 漫画

noun:

• intelligent design (theory that life or the universe must have been designed by an intelligent being)

expression:

• if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears; the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass [literal]

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• event where schoolchildren wash their inkstones, brushes and desks the night before Tanabata to pray for success in their studies - obscure term ➜ 七夕

noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 12.5cm by 17.5cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】
• late Edo-period novelette depicting life in the red-light district ➜ 洒落本

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

noun:

• poor who do not (or are unable to) seek help (from relatives or the authorities, etc.) - From English "silent poor"

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break; to be smashed
• to split; to crack; to fissure; to be torn
• to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party)
• to come to light; to become clear; to be identified; to be revealed
• to be distorted (of a sound)
• to be divisible (without a remainder)
• to go below a minimum

noun:

• mistaken way of writing something; mistaken spelling; wrong way of writing something; wrong spelling

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise high (of water); to overflow; to swell (e.g. river full of water)
• to be filled with (emotion, energy, etc.); to be bursting with; to be brimming with; to pervade (e.g. atmosphere with emotion)

noun:

• early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian - From Portuguese "cristao"

noun:

• small private school (esp. for cramming)
• private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)

adverb:

• for a long time; since long ago; from childhood
• bright and early; early in the morning