noun:

• face (of a wall of coal or ore, etc.); working face (of a mine)

noun:

• expansion (in space) of a sales area; increase in the number of beds (in a hospital, etc.)

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush; position of the arm used for a particular type of calligraphy

noun:

• the clear top of a liquid; the clear layer in a fluid, atop the sediment

adverb / ~する noun:

• feeling a sudden chill; feeling a shiver
• feeling sudden surprise (fright, horror, etc.); shuddering

expression:

• two is a company, three is a crowd; one companion is better than two - proverb

expression:

• it's no big deal; it's nothing to fret about; it's not like it's the end of the world

noun:

• Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi) ➜ 勅撰和歌集

~の noun / noun:

• speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.)

noun:

• marbling (of beef) ➜ 霜降り肉
• (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water - abbreviation ➜ 霜降り作り
• formation of frost - orig. meaning

expression:

• don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility) - proverb

noun:

• one-on-one fight; one-to-one fight - slang

noun:

• end to end - IT term

noun:

• right-hand match; ends-with match; backward match; matching a sub-string with the end of a field - IT term ➜ 前方一致・部分一致

noun:

• snowdrop (Galanthus spp.) ➜ スノードロップ
• snow falling like flower petals; snow on a tree resembling a flower
• red snow ➜ 赤雪

noun:

• substitute national holiday; day off in lieu of a national holiday that falls on a Sunday; compensatory holiday - abbreviation ➜ 振替休日【ふりかえきゅうじつ】

noun:

• patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; financial supporter
• sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha) ➜ 芸者・旦那
• patron; master; manager; boss

noun:

• pot - polite language
• typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period - archaism
• working at night
• female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite) - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - slang

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• with evident joy of having lived up to one's reputation; having an effect of bolstering one's reputation - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• (coincidence of) mutual sentiment; sharing the same sentiment with somebody; finding oneself on the same wavelength as somebody; seeing eye to eye - four character idiom

noun:

• bow (and arrow)
• unit of distance to an archery target (approx. six feet)
• unit of distance for land surveying (approx. eight feet)

noun:

• being unfit for duty in the former Japanese military (due to failing the conscription physical); person who is unfit for military duty

noun / ~の noun:

• outside (e.g. of a building); exterior
• outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world

noun:

• leader of a female gang; leader of a group of delinquent girls

noun:

• life-saving sword (a killing sword may be a sword of life depending on how it is used)

noun:

• one who is obsessed with (getting into, holding on to) political power; one who is obsessed with the idea of taking over government - four character idiom