noun:

• 43rd year of the sexagenary cycle (year of the Fire Horse, renowned for disasters and the birth of women destined to kill their husbands)

suffix / particle:

• approximately; about; around; or so - also written as 位
• to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; so ... that ...; at least
• as ... as ...; like

noun:

• one's registered domicile (as recorded in the family register); one's legal domicile (as opposed to where one lives) ➜ 戸籍【こせき】

noun / ~する noun:

• failing to win an electoral seat in a single-member constituency, but winning a seat in a proportionally represented constituency

expression:

• if it's alright; if you don't mind my asking; if it's all the same to you ➜ 差し支え【さしつかえ】

expression:

• need not (verb); (not) have to; expressing absence of obligation or necessity - after neg. stem of verb
• need not have; need not exist ➜ 無い

noun:

• getting ready to go out in the snow; clothing for going out in the snow; snow gear - obscure term

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

noun:

• not folding on a stitch but placing the fold (2mm) deeper past the stitch, folding the excess back to cover the stitch

noun:

• substitution
• material
• price
• margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something
• shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; ~19.83 m.sq.) - archaism ➜ 反【たん】

noun:

• being able to hear something (clearly); clearness of a sound; reception (e.g. of a radio station)
• reputation; renown; fame; hearsay
• impression (that something gives off); respectability
• sonority - Linguistics term

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

expression:

• expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat

noun:

• lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff ➜ 綿ぼこり

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil)

noun:

• talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; chat
• talk show - abbreviation ➜ トークショー
• toque

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea) ➜ 竜宮【りゅうぐう】

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a nutshell; in a word; to cut a long story short

noun:

• a fast (dissolute) life; a life of follies; a life given to dissolute pleasures - four character idiom

noun:

• black-spot surgeonfish (Acanthurus bariene, species of tang found from Mozambique and Maldives to the western Pacific); roundspot surgeonfish; bariene surgeonfish; eye-spot surgeon

particle:

• particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.) - at sentence-end ➜ もがな
• emphatic particle - at sentence-end - colloquialism
• particle adding uncertainty - often associated with an interrogative

noun:

• wealth and military strength of a country; "rich country, strong army": a slogan from the Meiji era referring to the government's goals for the country - four character idiom

noun / suffix noun:

• part; segment; share; ration ➜ 分の
• rate
• degree; one's lot; one's status; relation; duty; kind; lot ➜ 身分

suffix noun:

• relationship; connection; correspondence

noun / suffix noun:

• in proportion to; just as much as

~と adverb / adverb:

• with a roaring sound (of water or wind); sound of feet stamping on the ground - onomatopoeia

interjection:

• whoa! (command used to stop or quieten down a horse, etc.) ➜ どう