noun:

• friendly shower; welcome rain; rain that comes after a drought ➜ 慈雨

noun:

• losing move (go, shogi); move that costs one the game ➜ 勝着

expression / suffix:

• no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen - after -masu stem of verb ➜ っこない

interjection:

• thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal - colloquialism ➜ ごちそうさま

noun / ~する noun:

• hit it off with (a person); find a kindred spirit in (a person); sympathy; mutual understanding - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to bring calamity upon oneself; to put your foot in it; to dig your own grave - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to say it out loud; to yell out; to emphasize ➜ 声を大にする

noun / ~の noun:

• very resourcefully using tactics adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear; acting according to circumstances - four character idiom

expression:

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

expression:

• there is no need to; it is fine if you don't; unnecessary - after a verb
• does not match; out of reach of - after a noun

expression:

• zip it (when used to others); I'll shut up (when used by oneself); button (one's) lips - colloquialism ➜ チャック

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to use (public property) as if it belonged to oneself; to misappropriate; to appropriate; to embezzle
• to act selfishly - archaism

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to close up; to shut up (e.g. behind doors)
• to cut off (e.g. because a deadline has expired); to close off (e.g. subscription list) - usu. 締め切る

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to be suspicious of (someone's motives); to suspect (that)

noun:

• four posts that used to support the roof over the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• anadromous fish (fish that migrates upstream, e.g. salmon) ➜ 降河魚

noun:

• cargo ships that sailed the Japan Sea during the Edo period - archaism

noun:

• M-theory ("master theory" that unifies the five superstring theories)

expression:

• things that do not exist; fur on turtles, horns on rabbits [literal] - four character idiom - idiom

expression:

• things that do not exist; horns on rabbits, fur on turtles [literal] - idiom - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• dehiscent fruit (fruit that opens when ripe, i.e. pea pod)

noun:

• homolecithal egg (egg having a yolk that is evenly distributed throughout) ➜ 端黄卵

noun:

• the twelve nidanas (continuum of twelve phases that lead to suffering) - Buddhism term

noun:

• style of shrine architecture based on that of Ise Jingu

noun:

• uphill path; path or slope that becomes slowly steeper