noun:

• sliteye shark (Loxodon macrorhinus, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• dance recital praising Buddha, which accompanies the recital of a gatha (in the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) ➜ 偈

noun:

• pumice stone
• loose rock; loose stone
• floating group (in the game of go); group without a base

noun:

• cigarette lighter (in an automobile); car cigar lighter

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be possible (in terms of time, money, etc.); to be able (to do); to fit (schedule, budget)

noun:

• truths of the cessation of suffering and of the way to the cessation of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 道諦・滅諦

noun:

• four brights (high-scoring combination in hanafuda); four bright cards; four light cards; five hikari cards ➜ 花札

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ensconce oneself (e.g. in a chair); to settle oneself down; to plant oneself

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be betrayed unexpectedly; to be stabbed in the back; to be double-crossed

noun:

• triton (nucleus of tritium) - Chemistry term
• Triton (son of Poseidon, in Greek mythology)
• Triton (moon of Neptune) - Astronomy term

noun:

• rash; eruption (in response to a skin irritant)

suffix noun:

• influence - usu. negative or critical nuance
• crazy about; having an affectation concerning all things surrounding something (esp. a language, a culture, etc.)

noun:

• being closed; being blocked up; being occupied; hindrance; impedance ➜ 塞がる
• unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin) ➜ 陰陽道・天一神

noun / ~の noun:

• substitute; replacement; substituting; replacing
• stand-in; proxy; alternate; deputy; relief; successor
• compensation; exchange; return - usu. as 〜代わりに, etc. ➜ 代わりに
• second helping; another cup; seconds - usu. as お代わり ➜ お代わり【おかわり】
• upcoming program; upcoming programme - esp. 替わり, 替り - abbreviation ➜ 替わり狂言

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

• unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; staggering; reeling; tottering; dizzily - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wandering; wavering; aimlessly; without knowing what one is doing; having no goal in mind - onomatopoeia

noun:

• continued alertness; unrelaxed alertness; remaining on one's guard; being prepared for a counterstroke
• follow-through (e.g. in archery)
• lingering affection; attachment; regret; regrets; reluctance - orig. meaning

noun:

• dumpling cooked in miso served during the dog days of summer at the imperial court
• accompaniments for a rice dish - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ おかず
• wooden pestle - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ すりこぎ
• menstrual period - archaism

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to smoke; to breathe in; to inhale
• to suck; to sip; to slurp
• to absorb; to soak up
• to kiss

noun:

• climate of the third month of the lunar calendar in Okinawa (end of the dry season); early summer

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. visiting a shrine or temple a hundred times for prayer, walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time) ➜ 御百度

adverb / ~の noun:

• more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion; pretty much; roughly; so far as it goes

adverb:

• tentatively; for the time being
• just in case
• once

noun:

• musical note; note symbol
• phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.)
• part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning) ➜ 意符

noun:

• single crime that naturally consists of a number of incidences and is charged as only one count (e.g. habitual gambling)
• crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (e.g. insurrection) ➜ 集団犯罪

expression / adverb:

• in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs

expression / adverb:

• I pray in earnest that; I beg that; I yearn that