adjective:

• close (e.g. friend); familiar; friendly; intimate
• familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one)
• close (relatives); closely related

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching a decision by using a circular letter; reaching a decision via a document circulated to all employees

noun:

• partition board; plank used as a partition
• board used in a ship to prevent the cargo from moving around

noun:

• forming a four-of-a-kind by adding a self-drawn tile to an open three-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 加槓・槓

noun:

• air-damper (e.g. in chimney)
• wind door; door through which wind blows, e.g. to cool a room - archaism

noun:

• land received in compensation for one's service; land given by a lord to a vassal for his service - archaism

noun:

• land received in compensation for one's service; land given by a lord to a vassal for his service ➜ 恩地

adverb:

• with all one's strength; with all one's heart; to the utmost ➜ 思い切り【おもいきり】

noun:

• resolution; decisiveness ➜ 思い切り【おもいきり】

noun:

• admission ticket; entrance ticket
• platform ticket; ticket allowing a non-traveller access to a railway station platform

adverb:

• with all one's strength; with all one's heart; to the utmost

noun:

• resolution; decisiveness

noun:

• being absorbed in writing popular novels (cheap fiction); being absorbed in writing something to amuse oneself - four character idiom

expression:

• as of the end of (today, this month, etc.); to make (today, etc.) the last (day) ➜ 声を限りに

noun:

• boiling sake or mirin (to reduce the alcohol content); boiled-down sake; boiled-down mirin

noun / ~する noun:

• headstand ➜ 逆立ち【さかだち】
• doing one's best; doing something to the best of one's ability

adverb / ~の noun / noun:

• from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season - four character idiom

noun:

• sense of the trend of the times; sensitivity to the changing times - four character idiom ➜ 時世感覚

noun:

• meddling; interference; making a pass at someone ➜ ちょっかいを出す
• extending a paw to drag something closer
• hand; arm; wrist - derogatory term - archaism
• disfigured arm; disfigured hand - archaism

noun:

• defence of Buddhist doctrines; god who defends Buddhist doctrines - Buddhism term
• defence of the constitution
• religious power to dispel demons and diseases

noun:

• turning evil into good through indoctrination; following the teachings of Buddha to turn the world's evil into good - Buddhism term

expression:

• one should learn from other's mistakes; stones from other mountains can be used to polish one's own gems [literal] - proverb ➜ 他山の石

noun / ~する noun:

• official seal; verification seal; affixing a seal to an official document ［あいはん・あいばん］
• making a joint signature or seal ➜ 連判

noun:

• leading player; prima donna; box-office star - four character idiom
• best item one has (to show); one's sole Sunday best; one's single area of expertise

noun:

• Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive Zazen sitter); warning stick (Rinzai Zen); encouragement stick (Soto Zen) - called けいさく in Rinzai Zen, きょうさく in Soto Zen - abbreviation ➜ 警覚策励・座禅
• horsewhip ［けいさく］

noun:

• Osaka Conference; meeting held by the leaders of the Meiji Restoration in Osaka to discuss the formation of a representative assembly (January-February, 1875)

noun:

• diligence in studying (e.g. continuing to study even in such poor light as offered by a firefly or that reflected by snow); diligent study