noun:

• award for distinguished service

noun:

• brothel for male prostitutes - archaism ➜ 売り子【うりこ】

noun:

• ballast (for a ship)

noun:

• contract for difference; CFD

noun:

• vegetable thinnings (for salad) - Food term

noun:

• someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• profit; gains
• benefit; advantage; interest (of the public, etc.)
• grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing; miracle ［りやく］

noun:

• flounder (esp. the large-tooth flounders of family Paralichthyidae, but also lefteye flounders of family Bothidae)
• bastard halibut; olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)

noun:

• humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy ➜ 謙譲語Ｉ

noun:

• S; s
• south - abbreviation
• sulfur - abbreviation ➜ 硫黄

prefix:

• nth year in the Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7) - abbreviation ➜ 昭和

noun:

• small - abbreviation
• second - abbreviation
• subject (grammar) - abbreviation ➜ 主語
• sadist; sadistic - abbreviation Antonym: Ｍ
• sister; female partner in a homosexual relationship - abbreviation

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to kick the bucket; to drop dead; to die; to croak - colloquialism
• to be pooped; to be exhausted; to be knackered

suffix / particle:

• approximately; about; around; or so - also written as 位
• to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; so ... that ...; at least
• as ... as ...; like

noun:

• first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence)
• initials (of one's name)

noun:

• one's registered domicile (as recorded in the family register); one's legal domicile (as opposed to where one lives) ➜ 戸籍【こせき】

adverb:

• hourly; from one minute to the next; from hour to hour; moment by moment; with each passing moment - four character idiom

expression:

• if it's alright; if you don't mind my asking; if it's all the same to you ➜ 差し支え【さしつかえ】

noun:

• celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth)
• gift at the birth of a child; baby gift

noun / adverb:

• hourly; from hour to hour; moment by moment; momently; from one minute to the next; with each passing moment - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• to neither itch nor feel pain; to not be affected by something; to not feel the effects of something

noun / ~する noun:

• planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
• collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
• series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence

noun:

• year-end gift ➜ お歳暮
• end of the year; year end

noun:

• classical school or style (e.g. of music, baseball pitching, etc.); orthodox school; authentic style
• purist; follower of the orthodox school

expression:

• it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that... ➜ 訳【わけ】

noun:

• texture; "grain" of a fabric or cloth; direction of the loom or weave in a roll of fabric

noun / ~する noun:

• first ride (in a new vehicle, in the new year, etc.)

noun:

• base-fare zone; starting fare; base fare