noun:

• finishing reading

noun / ~の noun:

• non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence) ➜ 句読

noun:

• 15th day of the 1st, 7th and 10th lunar months ➜ 上元・中元・下元
• heaven, earth and man
• 1st January; New Year's Day

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• ternary - Chemistry term

noun:

• discrimination of right and wrong; distinguishing between right and wrong - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• being young and spirited; being young and full of go - four character idiom

noun:

• redface dwarfgoby (Trimma benjamini, species found in the Western Pacific); ring-eye pygmy-goby

noun:

• small western mirror with mercury added to the glass (Edo period) ➜ 和鏡

noun:

• Hemiscyllium (genus of longtail carpet sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with short snouts, nostrils at the tip, and elevated eyes and supraorbital ridges)

~と adverb / adverb:

• with a clatter - onomatopoeia
• with a fling (opening a door, window, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• bright and clear (weather, sky, etc.); perfectly (fine weather) - onomatopoeia
• nicely dry (laundry, air, etc.); crisply (fried, cooked, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• cheerfully; frankly; open-heartedly - onomatopoeia
• completely (forget, change, etc.); totally - onomatopoeia

noun:

• echo; reverberation
• sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise
• quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself - idiom

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮

noun:

• obfuscated style of Japanese text, used particularly by young women in keitai emails

noun:

• women's volunteer corps; groups of young female workers organized on Japanese territory during WWII

noun / ~する noun:

• impressed (glued) gold or silver foil on traditional Japanese fabric
• type of noh costume

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮紙

noun:

• abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures (1871) - four character idiom

noun:

• heaps of bodies and streams of blood; fierce battle - four character idiom

noun:

• high and low, and rich and poor - four character idiom

noun:

• European writing; cross-wise writing
• Western language

noun:

• Western honeybee; European honeybee (Apis mellifera)

noun:

• occasion; time
• section (of a literary work); paragraph; verse; stanza; passage
• principle; integrity
• node (of a plant stem)
• clause - Linguistics term
• (taxonomical) section

noun:

• wait to turn either of two pairs into a three-of-a-kind to finish one's hand - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ シャンポン待ち【シャンポンまち】

expression / noun:

• criminal groups and individuals; groups and individuals who seek economic profit through violence, force and fraudulent means; violent criminals, extortionists and racketeers; organized crime; anti-social forces [literal]

noun:

• glow of a river in the darkness; surface of a river gleaming in the darkness; gleam on a river at dusk