expression:

• one should learn from other's mistakes; stones from other mountains can be used to polish one's own gems [literal] - proverb ➜ 他山の石

noun:

• leading player; prima donna; box-office star - four character idiom
• best item one has (to show); one's sole Sunday best; one's single area of expertise

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil) ➜ カリビアンリーフシャーク

noun:

• whitefin hammerhead (Sphyrna couardi, species of hammerhead shark found in the West African tropics of the eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Congo)

noun:

• (in Japan) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・太簇
• (in gagaku) scale similar to the Dorian mode on E ➜ 律旋・六調子

noun:

• all things are essentially nothingness; all things come from nothingness; originally, there was nothing; Zen reminder to free oneself from attachments - Buddhism term

noun:

• personnel; members; lineup (of a team); roster; cast (of a play)
• announcement of next day's match-ups - Sumo term

expression:

• seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words - proverb

noun:

• rigging (a ship, aircraft, etc.)
• rigging; gear; tackle
• rigging; in animation, a hierarchy of virtual skeletal bones ［リギング］

noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

noun:

• black surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm, species of tang endemic to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the western Indian Ocean)

adjective:

• good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable - also いい (all senses) ➜ いい
• sufficient (can be used to turn down an offer); ready; prepared ➜ いい
• profitable (e.g. deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial ➜ いい
• OK ➜ いい

noun:

• direction; way; side; area (in a particular direction)
• side (of an argument, etc.); one's part
• type; category
• field (of study, etc.)
• indicates one side of a comparison
• way; method; manner; means
• length (of each side of a square)

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• self-proclaimed; self-professed; self-styled; would-be

noun / ~する noun:

• professing oneself to be; calling oneself; describing oneself as

noun:

• first person - Linguistics term

noun:

• wooden horse; rocking horse
• vaulting horse; horse used in gymnastics ➜ 跳馬
• the horse (ancient torture device that one was forced to straddle with rocks hanging from the feet)

noun:

• kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji; kanji enclosure-type radical - e.g. 道, 起

noun:

• being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other - four character idiom

noun:

• type of alloy of copper and zinc (brass) with zinc at about 33-67% used to solder metals like copper and iron

noun:

• emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)

noun:

• using poisonous medication to control poison; fighting evil with evil; fighting fire with fire - four character idiom

noun:

• access to genetic resources and benefit sharing; Access and Benefit-Sharing; ABS

noun:

• order to buy or sell; buy-sell order

expression / noun:

• regression toward the mean; regression to the mean - Mathematics term

noun:

• practice of buying a bottle of spirits at a bar which is then kept there for the customer - From English "bottle keep"

noun:

• explanatory notes (at the start of a book); introductory remarks; usage guide (e.g. of a dictionary)
• legend (on maps, drawings, etc.) ➜ キャプション