expression / adverb:

• hoping against hope; desperately hoping; as a last hope

noun:

• time of departure; (on the) point of departure; just as one is leaving

expression / noun:

• voice acting; appearing in a movie, TV show, etc. as a voice actor ➜ 出演

noun / adjectival noun:

• selfishness; egotism; egoism; (being) self-centered; without consulting; (doing) as one pleases; one's own free will - four character idiom

noun:

• skull (esp. weatherbeaten, used as symbol of death); death's head; cranium

noun:

• rainfall of a strange, dark color (colour); whirlwinds accompanied by rain which also drops strange objects such as fish

noun:

• redundant keigo (i.e. improper use of the -rareru honorific form together with an honorific verb such as ossharu)

noun:

• Mobile Suica; train ticketing system (mobile phone fitted with special chip used as swipe card) - also モバイルSuica ➜ スイカ

noun:

• light spot (e.g. blip on radar); always-on pixel (as a defect in LCD screens, etc.); calescence point

~と adverb:

• up and down; lightly; nimbly; moving in small leaps as a frog or rabbit - onomatopoeia
• casually; (strolling about) without a care - onomatopoeia ➜ ひょいひょい

noun:

• always conducting oneself as though one were on a battlefield; being combat ready at all times (of a person) - four character idiom

noun:

• stepping out of the ring while carrying the opponent over the edge, not considered as a loss - Sumo term

expression:

• The world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea). - Chinese legend - four character idiom

expression:

• The world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea). - Chinese legend - four character idiom

noun:

• staff (esp. one used by a monk, e.g. as a walking stick during a pilgrimage)

noun:

• archery range
• brothel (covering up as an archery range) ➜ 楊弓場

expression:

• nothing new; same as always; nothing new about it

expression:

• as a child; when one was a child

noun / ~する noun:

• considering something taboo; treating something as taboo - usu. used as a verb

noun:

• bear's gall (used as medicine for the stomach); bear's bile

noun / ~する noun:

• arriving at work late as if one were an executive; management attendance at work [literal] - humorous term - four character idiom

noun:

• former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer; retired public prosecutor - abbreviation - colloquialism

noun:

• former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer; prosecutor-turned-lawyer - colloquialism

noun:

• the path that one should follow as a human being; the path of benevolence

noun / ~する noun:

• lengthening a vowel (e.g. as in Kansai dialect) - Linguistics term ➜ 短呼

noun:

• long sound (esp. long vowel) - Linguistics term