noun:

• presence or absence; attendance (e.g. when taking a rollcall)

expression / adjective:

• not knowing when to give up; being a bad loser ➜ 往生際

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• levelling a powder or liquid (when measuring)

expression:

• flying; leaping ➜ 飛ぶ
• (when reading a number aloud) naught; zero; oh

expression / ~よい adjective:

• influential; powerful; popular; prosperous (when modifying a noun); doing well ➜ 羽振り

noun:

• luck in a lottery; luck in a raffle

expression:

• In for a penny, in for a pound - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to frustrate (e.g. someone's plans); to give someone a surprise; to give someone a blow; to scare the hell out of

noun:

• pig's snout; nose resembling a pig's snout
• snorting like a pig (while laughing)

expression:

• don't lend money to a man who doesn't have an erection in the morning (because he's not healthy and might die before he can repay) - archaism - proverb

noun:

• dammed lake (formed by natural damming of a river, esp. by landslide, volcanic eruption, etc.)

noun:

• pot of chicken or seafood, and vegetables in a dashi broth, usu. cooked at the table (traditionally a winter meal); seafood and vegetable stew or chowder ➜ 寄せ

adjectival noun / noun:

• grazing; skimming; almost touching; passing within inches; being within a whisker; shaving close
• barely; just; narrowly; by a slim margin

expression:

• don't judge a book by its cover; a mountain is not to be honoured just because it is high [literal] - proverb

noun:

• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• exact center of the Garbhadhatu mandala - obscure term
• platform upon which the fire is lit in a stone lantern

noun:

• scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer); scapulomancy; spatulamancy; armomancy - archaism

noun:

• breaking up a match (on the decision of the referee, in boxing, etc.) - From English "referee stop"

noun:

• incense which supposedly allows the spirit of a departed loved one to be seen in the smoke

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush, with elbow away from the body and arm in the air ➜ 懸腕直筆【けんわんちょくひつ】

expression / noun:

• backbiting of a coward; grumblings of a loser; the far-off bark of a retreating dog [literal] - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to angrily reject; to snub; to give a person a good scolding; to give a person a rap on the knuckles

noun:

• the western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki) - abbreviation
• western nations (esp. India or Europe)
• 33 temples in the Kinki area containing a statue of Avalokitesvara ➜ 西国三十三所
• a pilgrimage of these temples ➜ 西国巡礼

expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• burial (disposal of a body) by exposure to the elements; aerial sepulture (burial)