noun:

• feelings; thoughts
• meaning

noun / expression:

• meaning; connotation; denotation ➜ 意味

conjunction:

• meaning; called; said - colloquialism ➜ と言う【という】

conjunction:

• meaning; called; said - colloquialism ➜ と言う【という】

particle / conjunction:

• (at the end of a phrase) notes one (of several) reasons

noun:

• ridgepole-raising; setting up of the framework of a house

noun:

• unification of the written and spoken forms of a language - four character idiom

noun:

• vents at the hips of a pair of hakama

noun:

• part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes

noun:

• poor who do not (or are unable to) seek help (from relatives or the authorities, etc.) - From English "silent poor"

noun:

• stew of cubed meat or fish (esp. pork belly or tuna) - Food term

noun:

• club (esp. for devotees or fanciers of some subject or activity)

noun:

• exact center of the Garbhadhatu mandala - obscure term
• platform upon which the fire is lit in a stone lantern

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

noun:

• scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer); scapulomancy; spatulamancy; armomancy - archaism

noun:

• row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "a" - Linguistics term ➜ 五十音

noun:

• breaking up a match (on the decision of the referee, in boxing, etc.) - From English "referee stop"

expression / noun:

• crowning glory (e.g. winning the last game of the season, creating a final spectacular art work)

noun:

• incense which supposedly allows the spirit of a departed loved one to be seen in the smoke

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush, with elbow away from the body and arm in the air ➜ 懸腕直筆【けんわんちょくひつ】

noun:

• prajna; wisdom required to attain enlightenment - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "prajñā"
• noh mask of a grinning, horned demoness (represents a woman's rage and jealousy) ➜ 般若面【はんにゃめん】
• family crest designed after the Hannya noh mask
• dreadful face (esp. of a woman driven mad by jealousy); terrifying facial expression - abbreviation ➜ 般若面【はんにゃづら】

noun:

• Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles
• neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes) ➜ 郷里制・国郡里制
• unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m) ➜ 条里制

noun:

• pawn (chess piece) ［ポーン］

~と adverb:

• boing; sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring); plonk (e.g. sound of hitting a tennis ball); crack (e.g. sound of ice cracking underfoot) - onomatopoeia
• flipping through the air; tossing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 四諦

noun:

• soup with rice bran pickled or salted vegetables (e.g. carrots, daikon or potatoes) and fish (e.g. salmon, gadid or Arabesque greenling) boiled in a salty broth (sake lees is sometimes added) (Hokkaido local specialty dish) ➜ 糠漬け【ぬかづけ】