noun:

• company; fellow; colleague; associate; comrade; mate; group; circle of friends; partner
• member of the same category

noun:

• wing
• Chinese "Wings" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ［よく］ - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

suffix / counter:

• counter for birds or bird wings ［よく］ - archaism

noun:

• chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); stovepipe
• carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter - slang

adjectival noun / adverb / ~の noun:

• as one would expect
• still; all the same
• even... (e.g. "even a genius...") - as さすがの〜も

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• all; everything; the whole; lock, stock, and barrel

adverbial noun:

• absolutely not (with negative); without exception; entirely not

noun / ~する noun:

• execution; enforcing; carrying out ［しこう・せこう・しぎょう］
• giving alms; giving food to the poor or monks ［せぎょう］

noun / suffix noun:

• quotient - Mathematics term ➜ 積
• dealing; dealer; store
• second degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• Shang (dynasty of China) ➜ 殷

noun:

• room that cannot be entered (e.g. because it's locked from the inside)
• secret room

noun:

• one person; one customer - honorific language
• unmarried woman (with no children) over the age of 30 - colloquialism ➜ 負け犬

noun:

• morning star; Venus ➜ 金星【きんせい】
• preeminent person (within their own field); star (of the stage, silver screen, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• opening, either for the day or a "grand opening" (e.g. theme park, botanical garden etc.) - used for ~園 Antonym: 閉園

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

noun / ~する noun:

• acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting ➜ 了承

noun:

• Naraka; hell; hades - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "naraka"
• very bottom; the end; worst possible circumstances
• theatre basement; theater basement ［奈落］

noun / ~する noun:

• having a prince for a president; being the recipient of (an imperial favor, favour); reverential acceptance

noun:

• praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis) - occ. written 杜父魚

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become bald from the forehead; to recede (of one's hairline)

adjectival noun / noun:

• having one's hands full; not having any room to do more; at the limit

noun:

• sub-temple, esp. a Zen one founded to commemorate the death of a high priest - Buddhism term

expression / adjectival noun:

• triumphant (over a mediocre achievement); boastful; as if one had grabbed a demon by the neck [literal]

noun:

• spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season - four character idiom

noun:

• (university) club that exists for the purpose of getting women drunk and taking advantage of them

adjectival noun:

• at the point of death; almost dead; about to die
• at some limit (pain, hunger, etc.)

noun:

• (Japanese) electoral system allowing for the election of from 3 to 5 candidates from one district ➜ 大選挙区制

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "kun" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 音仮名【おんがな】