noun:

• primary nursing care requirement authorization (a 5-level graded system under health insurance) ➜ 介護保険制度

noun:

• giving something a try because one has nothing to lose - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 駄目で元々

noun:

• section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)

noun:

• standing (of a legal case, e.g. whether there are grounds to prosecute)

noun:

• drink; drinking - abbreviation
• spigot; tap (in a cask, etc.)
• stock market bucketing
• bookmaking

noun:

• Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni) - obscure term - From Latin "Eoanthropus" ➜ ピルトダウン人

noun:

• outline of a solitary fish (as seen through the water when fishing, etc.)

noun:

• (printed) itinerary
• road map; program (for the solution of a political problem, etc.) ➜ ロードマップ

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun:

• a good time to view the moon (i.e. when it is full) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• ding-dong dash (ringing a doorbell and running away)

noun:

• literary form imparting a formal written nuance (with sentences ending in "de aru") ➜ だ体

noun:

• kindling; small bits of scrap wood used to fuel a stove - obscure term

noun:

• hog (esp. a wild boar, but also including the domesticated pig) - archaism

noun:

• Test of English as a Foreign Language; TOEFL

noun:

• "No." (Zhaozhou's answer to the koan "Does a dog have Buddha nature?") - Buddhism term ➜ 狗子仏性

noun / ~する noun:

• placing in a list (top ten, popularity, sales, etc.) - From English "rank in"

noun:

• forming by hand (instead of using a potter's wheel, etc.); handwork

noun:

• pre-harvest estimate of a rice field's yield and selling price

noun:

• kuruma prawn (esp. a small one, i.e. less than 10 cm in length) ➜ 車海老

noun:

• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - archaism ➜ 鯤

noun:

• long-handled Chinese spear bearing a small flag - Buddhism term ➜ 鉾
• banner; hanging ［どう］

expression:

• nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb

expression:

• appearances can be deceiving; don't judge a book by its cover - proverb

expression / adjective:

• very messy (of a floor); no space even for one's feet [literal] - idiom