noun:

• fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near ➜ 擦り半鐘
• sound as produced by this alarm

noun:

• song sung by children during the New Year's bird-driving procession (later adopted by door-to-door musicians) ➜ 鳥追い【とりおい】・門付歌

noun / ~の noun:

• having leaves and branches loaded with snow

noun:

• snow guard (to prevent snow from sliding off of a roof); snow stop ➜ 雪止め

noun:

• wooden rods (square, used in a pair) used in Kansai-area rakugo (e.g. to mark scene changes); small clapper

noun:

• child's seat which attaches to a table for eating - From English "table chair"

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• crushed flat; flattened; squashed; flat-topped - onomatopoeia

noun:

• flat-chested girl - colloquialism - manga slang
• sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end) - slang - IT term

~する noun:

• blowing air into a dive mask through the nose to clear out the water or equalize the pressure - From English "mask blow" ➜ マスククリア

noun:

• cylindrical box used to measure rice
• shape for forming rice
• single serving of rice (esp. as prison food) - abbreviation ➜ 物相飯

noun:

• game of chance similar to rock, paper scissors, where the different hand gestures symbolize a fox, a hunter and a village head

expression:

• when it becomes; when it comes to

noun / ~の noun:

• next seat; the seat next to

noun:

• person-to-person call; personal call

noun:

• peer-to-peer network (P2P network)

noun:

• faraway lands; voyage to faraway lands - four character idiom

noun:

• archery ceremony; ceremony related to archery

noun:

• national census; door-to-door census

noun:

• measures to stimulate employment; employment measures

noun / ~の noun:

• month-to-month basis; month-over-month

noun:

• outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period

noun / ~の noun:

• with an interesting history (story); with a shady history; with circumstances that are difficult to explain

noun / ~する noun:

• becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality

expression:

• to that extent ➜ 其れだけ
• accordingly; that being the case; because of that; this means that ...
• that state; that condition

noun:

• closing recital that transfers the merit of the service to a buddha, a bodhisattva, or the dead - Buddhism term

noun:

• closing party (e.g. a theater show); cast party; party to celebrate successful completion of a project