noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

noun:

• prosthetist and orthotist

noun:

• vehicle larger than a light motor vehicle, and subject to automobile registration and tax ➜ 軽自動車

noun:

• ladies and gentlemen - referring affectionately to close acquaintances

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall and roll over; wriggle about

noun:

• dying of the little twigs and branches

noun / adjectival noun:

• having both (wide) knowledge and (high) virtue - four character idiom

noun:

• manners and customs; customs and habits - four character idiom

noun:

• all of one's relatives by blood and by marriage; one's kith and kin - four character idiom

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox)

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

noun:

• count of balls and strikes - Baseball term - From English "ball count"

noun:

• set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki

noun:

• radio and television audience

noun:

• merits and demerits

noun:

• cigarette lighter socket (in an automobile)

noun:

• court rank and honors; court rank and honours

adverb:

• suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove) - onomatopoeia
• in a single gulp; in one go - onomatopoeia

expression / ~よい adjective:

• big and brawny; well built; gigantic

noun / ~の noun:

• nose and mouth; muzzle (e.g. of a dog)
• nostril; nostrils; naris; nares

noun:

• index listing kanji by their Chinese and Japanese pronunciations

noun:

• search and recovery dive

adjectival noun / noun:

• cool and clear

noun:

• Okinawan dish of grated carrot stir-fried with egg and sometimes meat or fish - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

noun / ~する noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party - abbreviation ➜ 合同コンパ