noun:

• redundant keigo (i.e. improper use of the -rareru honorific form together with an honorific verb such as ossharu)

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 渡り箸

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 移り箸

noun / ~する noun:

• being entrusted with; taking charge of

noun:

• Vajrasattva; Supreme Being of tantric Buddhism

noun:

• consciousness or awareness of being ill

noun:

• sense of being the chosen people - four character idiom

noun:

• speechlessness; state of being unable to argue

noun:

• stopping functioning; being out of service - IT term

noun:

• utilization rate; capacity factor; utilization factor; coefficient of use

noun:

• state of a country (population, resources, etc.); condition of a country; strength of a country

adjectival noun:

• plausible (e.g. of a rumour); believable (e.g. of a story); specious (e.g. of an argument); credible (e.g. of a lie); looking very like the truth

noun:

• bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza) - obscure term ➜ 萩
• Japanese fiber banana (Musa basjoo) ➜ 芭蕉

noun:

• core
• tang (of a sword, etc.)
• middle of a nest of boxes ➜ 入れ子

noun:

• mizuna (Brassica rapa var. nipposinica); potherb mustard
• Elatostema umbellatum var. majus (variety of plant related to the nettles) ➜ 蟒草

noun:

• trial decision; decision by a court; judgment from a trial

noun:

• (in the shape of a) mouth
• mouthpiece (of a cigarette)
• manner of speech

expression:

• only a fool with no manners asks for another helping more than once; only fools are gluttons - idiom

noun:

• area between the regular outfield wall and a lower home-run fence set up at a shorter distance from home plate - Baseball term - From English "lucky zone"

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• enraged outcry; loud protest; being bitterly criticized by others; being loudly denounced by others - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being both repellant and attractive at the same time; being both cute and disgusting - slang - colloquialism

noun:

• band of warriors (often formed from related or dependent families); group of samurai

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• diversion; appropriation (e.g. of funds); misappropriation

noun / ~する noun:

• re-use (e.g. old computer parts); recycling

noun:

• elegant speech (esp. the use of the prefixes "o-" and "go- "); refined language; polite language ➜ 尊敬語・丁寧語

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to be too late (to be of use)