expression:

• life is but a dream; this too shall pass; everything is transient - proverb ➜ 浮世

noun:

• karma mandala (in Shingon); three-dimensional mandala with a sculpture of each deity - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• (for a conversation) to wander from the subject; to get off track

expression / adjective:

• depending largely on; playing a large role in; due largely to - as ～によるところが大きい

noun / ~する noun:

• (putting a song etc. on) endless repeat; endless repetition

counter:

• counter for occurrences

noun:

• a time; an instance
• inning (baseball); round; game

noun / suffix noun:

• episode; chapter; instalment - colloquialism

noun:

• Hui (people) - abbreviation ➜ 回族
• Islam - abbreviation ➜ 回教

noun / prefix:

• rag; scrap; tattered clothes
• fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect

adjectival noun:

• run-down; shabby; junky

noun / ~する noun:

• throwing into; inserting; depositing
• investment; putting in (personnel, etc.)
• release of a product
• making (an electrical circuit)

noun:

• corner
• segment (within a radio or TV program); session; column (newspaper, etc.)
• area; department; section

noun:

• mansion; palace; manor house; castle
• nobleman; noblewoman; dignitary - honorific language - archaism
• cabin (on a boat, carriage, etc.) ［やかた］ - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• admission (e.g. to a training institution, research establishment, social welfare facility, etc.); entrance
• imprisonment; internment; confinement

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• wobbling; tottering; shaking; unstably; unsteadily - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wavering (e.g. over a decision); dithering; indecisively - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• boiling up - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• dizzily; giddily - onomatopoeia ➜ くらくら

noun / ~する noun:

• capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); conquest; attack; assault
• defeating (an opponent)
• attacking (a problem) strategically

noun:

• bodyguard; bouncer; guard
• bar (e.g. on a door); bolt
• stick or pole used for self-defence - orig. meaning

noun:

• advance guard; vanguard
• athlete who competes in the first match of a team competition (kendo, judo, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun:

• (tobacco) pipe with metal tipped stem - From Khmer "khsier"
• stolen train ride (only paying a local fare each end) ➜ 煙管乗り・煙管乗車

noun / ~の noun:

• inner part of a house (near the kitchen, living room, etc.)
• family matters; household affairs; personal business

noun / ~する noun:

• transliteration ➜ 音写
• phonetic representation of a foreign word using Chinese characters
• reading aloud (for people with impaired vision)

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

adjectival noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• sticky; syrupy; pulpy - onomatopoeia ➜ とろみ・とろっと

adverb / ~と adverb / ~の noun:

• weakly (of a flame); gently (e.g. boil); simmering - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• dozing off; napping - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• sluggishly; dawdling - onomatopoeia

noun:

• infectious disease which by law a physician must report to the authorities within 24 hours of diagnosis

noun:

• surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies

noun:

• water-filled bamboo tube which clacks against a stone when emptied; device for scaring birds from gardens ➜ 添水

noun:

• red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major) - colloquialism
• fish given to a tournament winner as congratulations - Sumo, Food term