noun:

• It girl; personable young woman with sex appeal

noun:

• thinly-sliced salmon head cartilage and daikon seasoned with vinegar - Food term ➜ 氷頭・膾【なます】

expression:

• even the gods drink sake; there's nothing wrong with drinking - proverb

noun:

• not getting along well with each other; being like water and oil - four character idiom

noun:

• Galvalume (brand name); Galvanium; steel with an Al-Zn coating

expression:

• May the Force be with you (Star Wars) ➜ フォースと共にあらんことを【フォースとともにあらんことを】

expression:

• May the Force be with you (Star Wars) ➜ フォースと共にあれ【フォースとともにあれ】

suffix:

• -smell; stinking of ➜ カビ臭
• smacking of; hinting of

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to sheathe
• to govern; to manage; to control; to administer
• to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands) ［つかねる］

noun:

• disparity between values of votes in different constituencies; measure of malapportionment of electorates

noun:

• member of an assembly; member of the Diet; member of parliament; member of Congress

noun:

• piece of paper; slip of paper; strip of paper; scrap of paper

noun:

• sense of the vanity of life; perception of the evanescence of life

noun:

• number of revolutions (i.e. as an engine speed); number of rotations; speed of revolution; speed of rotation

particle:

• indicates direct object of action
• indicates subject of causative expression
• indicates an area traversed
• indicates time (period) over which action takes place
• indicates point of departure or separation of action
• indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc. ➜ が・が・が

noun:

• market price
• speculation (e.g. on stocks)
• reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation; esteem

noun:

• (Japanese) mattress; underquilt; futon laid on the floor; sleeping mat Antonym: 掛蒲団

noun:

• exposing fully; uncovering completely; being in full view; putting on display; not disguising

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• outspoken; arguing (heatedly) what one believes in; insisting on something without restraint - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• fasting; abstinence; confinement to one's house on an unlucky day

noun:

• hunt (where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters)

noun:

• kakekotoba; pivot word; play on words (esp. in poetry); pun

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out - four character idiom

expression:

• no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; fire on the opposite shore [literal]

expression:

• on such good terms as to know what each other is thinking - apparently from 通過の仲 - idiom