noun:

• Chinese "Bond" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・白虎【びゃっこ】

noun:

• three bonds (in Confucianism: master & servant, father & son, husband & wife)

noun:

• form (in Aristotelian philosophy) - From Greek "eidos"
• idea (in Platonic philosophy)

noun / ~の noun:

• acuminate (of the shape of a leaf tip)

noun:

• kummel (liqueur flavored with caraway seed or cumin) - From German "Kümmel"

noun:

• ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)

noun:

• Konkokyo (Shinto sect founded in 1859)

expression / ~の noun:

• not included (in a compilation, album, etc.)

noun:

• marlin (fish of the Istiophoridae family) ➜ 梶木【かじき】
• merlin (Falco columbarius); pigeon hawk ➜ 小長元坊【こちょうげんぼう】

prefix noun / noun:

• eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica) - often used in names of dishes containing eel - abbreviation ➜ 鰻【うなぎ】・鰻巻き【うまき】

noun:

• Kyushu region (sometimes incl. the Nansei Islands) ➜ 南西諸島

noun:

• Izumo dialect (spoken mostly in eastern Shimane prefecture)

noun:

• schrund (crevasse, esp. a bergschrund, a crevasse near the head of a glacier) - From German ➜ ベルクシュルント

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to open one's eyes wide (as in fear or anger) ➜ 白目【しろめ】
• to faint

noun:

• Eviota masudai (species of pygmy goby found in Japanese waters)

noun:

• christie turn (in skiing); christy turn; christiania turn - From German "Kristiania"

noun:

• blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake

expression:

• fools rush in - abbreviation ➜ 盲蛇に怖じず

noun:

• pair (as part of a winning hand, together with four melds); eyes - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 対子

noun:

• sizzle (usu. in advertising); dazzle; (a) kicker

noun:

• orange-socket surgeonfish (Acanthurus auranticavus, species of the Indo-West Pacific)

noun / ~の noun:

• what if (as in "what if" stories)

noun:

• fruit jelly (gelled with konjac starch); fruit jello

noun:

• first appearance (of the season)

noun:

• Yata no Kagami (the eight-span mirror; one of the Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom