noun:

• being served food outside the meditation hall (at a Zen temple) ［ほいとう］ - archaism
• serving food; food served ［ほいとう］ - archaism
• begging; beggar - archaism

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to have as a side order (with drinks) ➜ 肴【さかな】
• to make fun of someone; to laugh at someone's expense - usu. Xをさかなにする - idiom ➜ 肴【さかな】

noun:

• chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance; chief treasurer; paymaster
• chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)

noun / ~の noun:

• left-wing (politics) Antonym: 右翼

noun:

• left wing (of a bird, aircraft, formation, etc.); left flank
• left field - Baseball term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise to the surface; to surface
• to stand out (e.g. against a background)

noun:

• year of a person's birth ［せいねん］

noun / prefix noun:

• number of years since one's birth; age - e.g. 生年35歳

expression / ichidan verb:

• to warm the bench; to stay on the bench during a sports match

noun:

• previous work; preceding work
• first crop grown in a double-cropped field; preceding crop

noun:

• personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character - four character idiom

noun:

• advancing in the face of death; having a narrow escape from the jaw of death - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to dream of making a fortune at one stroke; to dream of getting rich quickly

noun:

• resting one's chopsticks across the top of one's bowl (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• flunitrazepam (hypnotic drug formerly marketed as Rohypnol); roofies (flunitrazepam used as a date-rape drug)

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

noun:

• chamber; room
• home of a monk; monk ➜ 坊・坊
• Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation ➜ 空気を読む

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation ➜ 空気を読む

noun:

• policeman; cop - esp. お巡り ➜ お巡りさん
• walking in a circle (dog trick) - esp. お回り
• rounds (doctor, police beat, etc.) - archaism
• vegetables that accompany rice (secret language of court ladies) - archaism ➜ おかず・女房言葉

adverb / ~する noun:

• flaring up; burning hotly; suddenly becoming bright - onomatopoeia
• flying into a rage; losing one's cool - onomatopoeia
• opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes, mouth) - onomatopoeia
• acting resolutely - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun:

• interpreter (languages, events, etc.) ➜ 通訳者・説明者
• interpreter; software that decodes and executes a high-level language (e.g. Java, Python, PHP) - IT term

noun:

• sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples

noun:

• female student or graduate of Waseda University
• woman who allegedly pursues a career at the expense of love, feminine interests, etc. - derogatory term

noun:

• position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); open interest; outstanding account; sales or purchase contract

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to finish writing; to complete
• to write down (e.g. a list); to write out

noun / ~する noun:

• count; counting

noun:

• count of balls and strikes - Baseball term ➜ ボールカウント

noun / ~する noun:

• count (after a knock-down in boxing) - Sports term ➜ カウントアウト

noun:

• count (of radioactivity)