noun:

• signboard; sign; billboard; hoarding; doorplate
• draw; attraction; feature; highlight; spokesman; figurehead
• reputation (of a shop)
• appearance; look
• closing time

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• dangling heavily; swaying to and fro; swinging - onomatopoeia
• strolling; rambling; roaming; wandering - onomatopoeia
• idly; lazily; leisurely; aimlessly - onomatopoeia
• persisting (of an illness) - onomatopoeia

noun / suffix noun:

• department (in an organization); division; bureau - higher than a 課
• club
• part; component; element
• category

counter:

• counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine

noun / ~する noun:

• discharge; outward flow; efflux; effluence; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; bleeding (e.g. ink into paper)
• leak of (private) information or pictures

noun:

• saucer
• person (group, institution, etc.) to take over a position or matter; receptacle (e.g. of funds); receiver

noun / ~する noun:

• riding together; sharing a car (taxi, etc.)
• doing in collaboration
• backing of the same candidate by different political parties

noun:

• ping-pong; table tennis ［ピンポン］

interjection:

• exactly!; surely!; that's it!

noun / ~する noun:

• ding dong (sound of door bell, chime, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• oden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku, etc. stewed in soy-flavored dashi - Food term

noun / ~の noun:

• boning (fish or meat); deboning
• watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; emasculation
• taking the backbone out of; weakening

noun:

• texture (cloth, fabric, paper)
• market tone; undertone
• balance between the position of white and black stones (in go) ➜ 囲碁

noun:

• ridge (in field); row of raised earth when planting crops
• rib (cloth, mountains, sea); cord (e.g. corduroy)

noun:

• fertile shoot of field horsetail ➜ 杉菜
• wooden stick with a burned tip (used to create underdrawings) ［どひつ］ ➜ 焼き筆

noun:

• group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)
• non-human - Buddhism term

noun:

• small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below) ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• dish of vegetables, konnyaku, etc. simmered in soy sauce and water until the liquid is almost gone - Food term

noun:

• cutting the New Year's rice cake (January 11th)
• traditional breaking of a sake cask at weddings, receptions, etc.

noun:

• one-piece garment with snaps up the front, sort of like a jumpsuit for babies - From English "baby all"

noun:

• type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used to cover oneself in hot weather - From English "towel blanket"

noun:

• sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)

noun / suffix:

• including; inclusive of ［こみ］

noun:

• komi; extra points given to the white player as compensation for playing second (in go) - usu. コミ - usually written using kana alone - abbreviation ➜ コミ出し【コミだし】

noun:

• ring; link
• open spirals of heavy metal wire twisted into a kettle and used to lift it (tea ceremony)

noun:

• Piltdown hoax (1912 discovery of a fossilized ape-human missing-link skull, later revealed to be fraudulent) - obscure term ➜ ピルトダウン人

noun:

• decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp ➜ 大頭【おおがしら】

noun:

• bonus footage (e.g. behind-the-scenes interviews), such as that included on DVDs of movies, television programs, etc.

noun:

• creating a noun by affixing "ku" to the end of an inflectable word (e.g. "omowaku", "osoraku")