noun:

• hinoki leaf ➜ 檜
• hiba false arborvitae (species of cypress, Thujopsis dolabrata) ➜ 翌檜
• small ornamental false cypress (i.e. a variety of hinoki or a related species) ➜ 矮鶏檜葉

noun:

• menswear; men's wear

expression:

• capitalizing on the fame of a parent; riding a parent's coat-tails

noun:

• round meat; meat from a pig's thigh (from which ham is made)

noun / ~する noun:

• tuck at the shoulder (of a child's clothes); shoulder tuck ➜ 肩揚げを下ろす【かたあげをおろす】・肩揚げが取れる【かたあげがとれる】

noun:

• nurse call; a patient's call button in a hospital

noun:

• (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world - four character idiom

noun:

• imperialisation policy (esp. on Korea during Japan's colonial rule) (imperialization); policy of imperialisation

expression:

• It's audible but invisible; I hear voices but I can't see anybody - idiom

noun:

• store buying and selling metal utensils and tools; hardware store; ironmonger's shop

noun:

• marriage in which the bride is taken into the groom's family; virilocal marriage

noun:

• cylindrical candy made so that Kintaro's face appears wherever it is sliced ➜ 金太郎・金太郎

adjectival noun:

• inflexibly uniform; all the same; stamped out like cookies

suffix:

• seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of

noun / ~する noun:

• lead; leading; taking the lead

noun:

• lead (of a newspaper, etc.); lede
• lead (wire)
• lead (e.g. dog); leash
• reed (of a woodwind, etc.)
• lied; German song, usu. for solo voice & piano - From German "Lied" ➜ リート

noun / ~する noun:

• read; reading

noun:

• identifying mark (esp. a mark of comradeship)
• mark placed where two pieces of cloth are to be sewn together (or two pieces of wood joined, etc.)
• verification seal; tally ➜ 合い印【あいいん】

noun:

• tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; non-Buddhist - Buddhism term Antonym: 内道
• heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; heresy; heretic
• demon; fiend; devil; brute; bad person - derogatory term
• type of fish one did not intend to catch

expression:

• though sitting on a pile of riches, one comes back empty handed; to have a good opportunity only to let it slip from your grasp - proverb

expression:

• if two ride upon a horse, one must sit behind; when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war; two great rivals cannot coexist - proverb

noun:

• drawing hot water; person who draws hot water
• employee who pours clean hot water used for rinsing in a bathhouse
• ladle (esp. used in bath houses)

noun / ~する noun:

• visiting ill or distressed people; writing get-well letters ➜ お見舞い・見舞い客

noun:

• get-well gifts; get-well letters ➜ 見舞い品
• expression of sympathy; expression of concern; enquiry; inquiry ➜ お見舞い申し上げる

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be absent; to take a day off
• to rest; to have a break
• to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep; to turn in; to retire
• to stop doing some ongoing activity for a time; to suspend business

expression / ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make an example of; to make a victim of; to hold up somebody (something) to ridicule; to single out someone for criticism - idiom
• to pierce with a spear

expression:

• to wait for a good opportunity; to come down on the right side of the fence; to see which way the cat jumps; to wait and see at Horagatoge [literal] - proverb

godan ~う verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to ask; to inquire
• to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to pursue (question of responsibility); to charge with
• to care about; to regard as important - used in neg. form ➜ 問わず
• to call into question; to doubt; to question - usu. in passive form

noun:

• distance of eight sun (approx. 24 cm)
• dish or tray of this size (esp. used in kaiseki cuisine to serve several kinds of delicacies); food served in such a dish
• var. of thick, traditional Japanese paper