noun:

• getting free admission on the strength of one's name; being let in somewhere because one is recognized

noun:

• magnet school (public school offering special instruction in order to attract a more diverse student body)

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• expulsion; dismissal; ejection; eviction
• drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)

noun:

• short arched (traditionally bamboo) fence around walls of traditional townhouses, esp. in Kyoto (protects lower walls from fouling or damage)

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb / prefix noun:

• occurring frequently; being susceptible; age, body part, group of people, etc. in which a disease or condition occurs especially frequently - Medicine term

noun:

• medal; shield; badge
• card on which dharani (etc.) are written ➜ 陀羅尼
• notice board (in a Zen temple)
• tile (mahjong, dominos, etc.) ➜ 牌【パイ】

noun:

• statute of limitations; lapse of rights after a period of time; prescription (including acquisitive and extinctive prescription)
• becoming invalid or void after a set time
• ageing; aging - Chemistry term ➜ 時効硬化

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 降りしきる

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to happen repeatedly; to happen over and over again - orig. meaning - archaism

expression:

• don't try and tell me that!; don't try that shit on me ➜ やがる

noun:

• the sum of the length, width, and height of a package; length + width + height

noun / adjectival noun:

• luxury; extravagance

~する noun:

• to live in luxury; to indulge oneself

adjectival noun:

• lavish (use of something); abundant; copious; wasteful

~の noun / noun:

• official; governmental; formal
• public (use, facility, etc.); common
• public (matter, place, etc.); (out in the) open ➜ 公にする

noun:

• Shinto priest - sensitive - Shintō term
• chief Shinto priest (of a shrine) - sensitive - Shintō term
• Welsh onion; pun in Buddhist monk jargon ➜ 葱【ねぎ】

noun / ~する noun:

• filling (up); replenishing; filling in (tooth); loading (gun with ammunition, camera with film, etc.); packing; plugging

noun:

• snap (e.g. of the wrist in baseball)
• snapshot (esp. of people) - abbreviation ➜ スナップショット・スナップ写真
• snap fastener; press stud ➜ ホック

noun:

• distinguished family; noted family; noble family
• family status in the Imperial Court ➜ 家格
• master (of a craft); expert

noun:

• different seat; special seat; separate room
• temporary rank after merging of two separate rankings in 1930s - Sumo term

expression / adverb:

• just before one's eyes; in one's presence; personally

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go up in smoke; to burn down; to be cremated; to vanish into thin air

noun:

• gentle on the outside but tough on the inside; an iron hand in a velvet glove - four character idiom

noun:

• stone-roasted bibimbap; Korean style rice (bibimbap) heated in a stone pot

noun:

• body slam (e.g. in wrestling)

noun:

• flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image - Buddhism term