pronoun:

• this (indicating an item near the speaker, the action of the speaker, or the current topic) ➜ 何れ・其れ・彼【あれ】
• this person (usu. indicating someone in one's in-group) - humble language
• now
• here - archaism
• I (me) - archaism
• certainly - archaism

noun:

• moon (esp. full moon)
• circle fashioned after the moon
• decorative ring on the chest of a monk's stole ➜ 袈裟
• straw trivet
• white crescent-shaped chest patch of an Asiatic black bear ➜ 月の輪熊

noun:

• servant; valet; footman
• someone who works in close quarters with the emperor or imperial family - archaism
• low-ranking official who works for the imperial family or nobility (under the Rituryo system) - archaism
• ox-tender for oxcarts; horse boy - archaism
• honorary junior official of the Imperial Household Department's Board of Ceremonies involved in miscellaneous duties related to ceremonies ➜ 宮内省

noun:

• envoy; diplomat below the rank of ambassador (e.g. deputy chief of mission, charge d'affaires); minister (of legation)

expression / noun:

• mono no aware; appreciation of the fleeting nature of beauty; pathos of things; strong aesthetic sense

noun:

• projecting part (of a headland, etc.) ［出っ鼻］ ➜ 出鼻
• moment of departure; (on the) point of going out ➜ 出端
• outset; start; beginning ➜ 出端

noun:

• priority seat; courtesy seat; seat provided in trains, buses, etc. for the use of the disabled, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• musical note; note symbol
• phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.)
• part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning) ➜ 意符

noun:

• tenth sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Bird, 5pm-7pm, west, August)

noun:

• seventh sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Horse, 11am-1pm, south, May)

noun:

• first sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Rat, 11pm-1am, north, November)

adverb:

• anybody and everybody; with the best of them; as the next fellow - adv equivalent of 誰も ➜ 誰も

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• out of the common; far above the average; extraordinary; abnormal; unreasonable

noun:

• sashimi arranged in the original shape of the fish ➜ 活け造り

noun:

• Alcyone (star in the constellation Taurus, brightest of the Pleiades); Eta Tauri - Astronomy term

noun:

• eternalness; forever unchanging
• distant land over the sea; world of the dead - abbreviation ➜ 常世の国

noun:

• chamfering; beveling; bevelling
• rounding the edges (of a vegetable); trimming the corners

noun:

• poem written by the Emperor or a member of the imperial family

noun:

• Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972)

noun:

• mi; 3rd note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• la; 6th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar - four character idiom

noun:

• grammatical rule allowing the usage of the continuative form as a conjunction

noun:

• the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person) - four character idiom