noun:

• foremast hand; common sailor

noun:

• common spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)

noun:

• one person - honorific language

adjectival noun:

• ordinary; common - often in negative form

noun:

• common segment - IT term

noun:

• common buffer - IT term

noun:

• common block - IT term

noun:

• common program - IT term

noun:

• common model - IT term

noun:

• common channel signalling network - IT term

noun:

• maximum common mode voltage - IT term

noun:

• common rue (Ruta graveolens) - From Dutch "wijnruit"

noun:

• common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)

expression / noun:

• most recent common ancestor

noun:

• common saying; slang; argot ➜ 通語

noun:

• list price; regular price; established price

noun:

• Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era

noun:

• Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)

noun:

• children's haircut having hair in the rear that reaches the nape of the neck - archaism

noun:

• season when the sky is clear and the air warm (spring)
• first ten days of the fourth lunar month ➜ 卯月

noun:

• soryo system; organization of regional landholding families based on divided inheritance under the leadership of a main heir, usu. the eldest son (Kamakura period)

expression:

• trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; The cure is worse than the disease - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• to gain nothing; to be of no benefit; to be no use; to be unprofitable

noun / ~する noun:

• use; adoption; acceptance
• appointment; employment; engagement; recruitment

noun:

• effect; result; worth; use; avail ➜ 甲斐【がい】

expression / ~の noun:

• in use; occupied (e.g. toilet); engaged