noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb:

• looking up to a person as one's own master or model; being influenced by a person through his works; idolizing

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• official post; regular post; permanent office
• principal post (as opposed to secondary post)

pronoun:

• I (of someone in government or the civil service)

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

noun:

• entrance exam for a university giving preference to persons who excel in one special field (skill); one-talent oriented entrance examination - four character idiom

noun:

• kingdom - Biology term
• erathem (rock layer corresponding to the era in which it was deposited) - Geology term
• partition of land

suffix:

• the world of (some category)

noun:

• one's business - archaism - polite language
• reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
• bargain; discount
• money paid to a prostitute or geisha

conjunction:

• that being the case; therefore; so
• well then, moving on to another topic...
• (expressing surprise) ...on earth? ［されば］

interjection:

• that's right ［されば］

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

noun:

• nailist; someone whose occupation is to cut any type of nail, apply artificial nails (or "nail art") and care for nails

noun:

• notched bamboo rod rubbed with an implement similar to a bamboo whisk (used as a percussion instrument) ➜ 簓
• wooden vertical batten

noun:

• large bird
• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - esp. 鵬 ➜ 鵬【ほう】
• fenghuang (Chinese phoenix) - esp. 鳳 and 凰 as male and female respectively ➜ 鳳凰

noun:

• on-off timer (i.e. to automatically turn an electrical device on and off at specified times)

noun:

• Mozambique tilapia (tilapiine cichlid fish native to southern Africa, Oreochromis mossambicus)

expression:

• I quit!; I'm out!; declaring one quits, mainly used in children's games - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun / counter:

• nth person to quit a game - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge ➜ 妻入り

noun:

• deviation-value-oriented education; education focussed on test results; education that stresses studying and passing exams to raise one's ranking; academic cramming

noun:

• hand-clapping performed to celebrate the conclusion or completion of something (3-3-3-1 rhythm, done once)
• single clap after a cheer

noun:

• imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era
• patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• being moved (to tears); being touched (by); becoming sentimental - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• (falling) softly (of leaves, petals, etc.) - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• becoming slightly drunk; becoming tipsy - onomatopoeia

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

noun:

• looter; thief at the scene of a fire - abbreviation ➜ 火事場泥棒
• someone who takes advantage of a crisis to commit a crime

noun:

• looter; thief at the scene of a fire
• someone who takes advantage of a crisis to commit a crime

noun:

• technique of holding one's opponent's arm to prevent him from getting a hold on one's belt - Sumo term