noun / ~の noun:

• double meaning; two meanings; amphibolous

noun:

• nai stem (of a Japanese verb or adjective); irrealis form; imperfective form - Linguistics term

noun:

• niche or alcove for an image
• (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard

noun:

• cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and/or software) system - IT term

noun:

• game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture

adverb / ~の noun:

• as a god
• as was done in the age of the gods

noun:

• daughter of the home; unmarried woman who owns (the future rights to) a home

noun:

• the sum of the length, width, and height of a package; length + width + height

expression:

• A smile of a beautiful woman is worth a thousand pieces of gold; enchanting smile of a glamorous woman - four character idiom

noun:

• hill; height; knoll; rising ground ［丘・岡・壟］
• bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game ［丘・陸符］ - usually written using kana alone - Mahjong term

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade ➜ 反台鉋

noun:

• person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans

noun:

• expulsion; dismissal; ejection; eviction
• drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)

noun:

• a country being in a state of universal peace; the world being peaceful and uneventful - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a narrow view of things; to look at the ceiling through a reed [literal]

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a narrow view of things; to look at the ceiling through a reed [literal]

expression / ichidan verb:

• to help a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

noun:

• appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation - four character idiom

noun:

• statue of a figure sitting contemplatively in the half lotus position (often of Maitreya) - Buddhism term ➜ 弥勒菩薩

noun:

• draft of magazine's content (a table showing the allocation of each page)

noun:

• the art of giving a brief glimpse of something (e.g. one's underwear)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.); being equivalent to

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• appropriate; suitable; befitting; proportionate

~する noun:

• to be proportionate to; to be in keeping with; to be deserving of; to be worthy of

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• considerable; substantial

adverb:

• considerably; rather; quite; fairly; pretty

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom ➜ 峠を越す
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• revenge
• making a new attempt where one previously failed; determination of a loser to win the next time ➜ リターンマッチ