noun:

• sumi; India ink; Chinese ink; ink stick; ink-cake
• squid ink; octopus ink
• carpenter's inking string ➜ 墨繩【すみなわ】

noun / counter:

• swing; shake; wave; swinging

noun:

• appearance; behaviour - usually written using kana alone
• pretence (pretense); show; pretending (to) - oft. after a noun+の or verb in the dictionary form - usually written using kana alone ➜ 振りをする

noun / ~の noun:

• going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• move (dance); postures
• lead in (e.g. to a running joke, asking a question); lead up - oft. as フリ - usually written using kana alone ➜ 前振り
• unsewn part of a hanging sleeve on a traditional Japanese woman's garment

suffix / counter:

• counter for swords, blades, etc.

noun:

• not wearing underwear or pants - archaism

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• reconciliation; amicable settlement; accommodation; compromise; mediation; rapprochement
• court-mediated settlement ［わかい］ - Law term
• translation of a foreign language into Japanese - archaism

noun:

• Yamato; ancient province corresponding to modern-day Nara Prefecture
• (ancient) Japan

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• Japanese ➜ 大和絵・大和魂

noun:

• ripple; ring on the water
• repercussions
• Japanese slit drum; instrument made of iron with slits on top; makes a rippling sound - Music term

noun:

• pivot
• vital point; cornerstone; keystone
• Japanese photinia ➜ 要黐

noun:

• fish of the genus Rhinogobius ➜ ヨシノボリ
• dusky tripletooth goby (Tridentiger obscurus) ➜ チチブ
• common freshwater goby (Gymnogobius urotaenia) ➜ ウキゴリ
• Japanese fluvial sculpin (fish, Cottus pollux) ➜ 鰍

noun:

• ornamental variety of double weeping rosebud cherry ［かばざくら］ ➜ 江戸彼岸
• any cherry tree with birch-like bark
• Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana) - archaism ➜ 上溝桜

noun:

• national law; laws of a nation
• national rites and ceremonies
• Japanese literature

noun:

• law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation
• vinaya (rules for the monastic community) - Buddhism term
• Ritsu (school of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 律宗
• lushi (style of Chinese poem) - abbreviation ➜ 律詩
• (musical) pitch - also りち
• six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・呂
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) - abbreviation ➜ 律旋

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)

noun:

• algal bloom; water bloom ➜ 青粉【あおこ】
• lotus flower
• Japanese sea perch; Japanese sea bass - archaism - female language ➜ 鱸

noun:

• writing from top to bottom
• writing without a pause
• translation of classical Chinese into Japanese - abbreviation ➜ 書き下し文

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) ➜ 七曜
• Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine ➜ 真鰯

noun:

• eaves (of roof)
• narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building - Architecture term
• visor (of a cap); brim; peak
• classic Japanese women's low pompadour hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 庇髪

noun:

• thin sheet of silver; silver foil; silverleaf
• censer; incense burner made of a sheet of mica hemmed by silver and placed on charcoal embers, used in incense-smelling ceremony ➜ 香道【こうどう】
• Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam ➜ 裏白の木【うらじろのき】

noun:

• Yamato (province) ➜ 大和
• Japan ➜ 日本
• the art of classical Japanese poetry - abbreviation ➜ 敷島の道

noun:

• all sorts of birds; hundreds (and thousands) of birds - archaism
• plover ➜ 千鳥
• Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale ➜ 鶯

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to write from top to bottom
• to write out (at a stretch); to write without a pause
• to rewrite classical Chinese in Japanese word order

suffix noun / prefix noun / noun:

• spreading; laying out; covering

noun:

• security deposit - abbreviation ➜ 敷金
• Japanese mattress - abbreviation ➜ 敷き布団

noun:

• distance of eight sun (approx. 24 cm)
• dish or tray of this size (esp. used in kaiseki cuisine to serve several kinds of delicacies); food served in such a dish
• var. of thick, traditional Japanese paper

noun:

• Chinese guger tree (Schima wallichii)
• sasanqua (Camellia sasanqua) ➜ 山茶花
• Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum) - archaism ➜ 鼠黐

noun:

• sum - Mathematics term
• harmony; peace

noun / prefix noun / ~の noun:

• Japan; Japanese-style

noun:

• generation; lifetime
• the age; the day

noun / suffix noun:

• the First - after the name of a king, etc.

noun:

• issei; first-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.)

adverb / noun:

• regularly; promptly - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• sound of clashing swords - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Manchu queue ➜ 辮髪
• padded sleeveless kimono jacket; Japanese vest (often for children) ➜ ちゃんちゃんこ

noun:

• same person
• said person; the person in question
• coterie; clique; fraternity; kindred spirits; comrade; colleague
• dōjin; doujin; Japanese fans or hobbyists who produce their owns magazines, manga, software, etc. ［どうじん］