noun:

• anadromous fish (fish that migrates upstream, e.g. salmon) - obscure term ➜ 遡河魚

noun / ~の noun:

• rising rapidly (e.g. prices, popularity); soaring; skyrocketing; going through the roof

noun:

• kami-buddha syncretization theory (e.g. manifestation theory) - obscure term ➜ 本地垂迹説

noun:

• Ministry of Culture (e.g. in China)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• rhythmically (beating, e.g. gong) - onomatopoeia
• clip-clopping (e.g. horse) - onomatopoeia

~の noun:

• crumbly - onomatopoeia ➜ ほくほく

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• ambling; strolling - onomatopoeia
• dozing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• power of finality (of a legal decision, e.g. when a case is dismissed with prejudice) - Law term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to roast (i.e. tea leaves)

noun:

• on-off timer (i.e. to automatically turn an electrical device on and off at specified times)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hang (e.g. oneself)

noun:

• incremental difference (e.g. between files); "diff" - IT term
• difference; subtraction; (finite) differences - Mathematics term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to offer flowers (e.g. at grave); to leave flowers

noun:

• small household fly (e.g. fruit fly) ➜ 蠅

noun:

• first Japanese bush warbler to chirp this year (i.e. spring)

noun:

• fundamental interaction (i.e. gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interaction, strong interaction)

noun:

• low priority (e.g. cell) - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting a thin object (e.g. vegetable stalk) at a 45 degree angle; cutting in a way that blunts or rounds the cut ➜ 削ぐ

expression:

• just safe (e.g. just avoiding being late, failing an exam, etc.); just (barely) OK - colloquialism Antonym: ギリギリアウト ➜ ぎりぎり・セーフ

noun:

• glory (i.e. an anticorona) ➜ 御来迎

conjunction:

• as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

adverb:

• opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• deity that originated on the Asian mainland, particularly the Korean Peninsula, during the Yayoi or Kofun Periods (e.g. Ame no Hiboko) ➜ 渡来

auxiliary verb:

• indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
• indicates continuation from the past to the present
• end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧

noun:

• dedicated line (e.g. phone service) - abbreviation ➜ 直接収容

noun / suffix:

• general affairs section (e.g. in a company); operations division

noun:

• (in China) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・平調
• first lunar month