noun:

• program picture (i.e. film cheaply and quickly produced as a lesser attraction in a double bill); programme picture; B-movie

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

noun:

• castle and moat; castle's moat - obscure term
• City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to read a kanji with a different pronunciation
• to load (e.g. data on a computer); to read
• to change the language or wording (of a provision, etc.); to apply a different term - Law term

noun:

• Assumption (of the body and soul of Mary into heaven) ➜ 聖母マリア

noun:

• Assumption (of the body and soul of Mary into heaven) ➜ 聖母被昇天

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• (of soil, etc.) soft, dry and crumbly - archaism - onomatopoeia
• sound of quiet walking - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the six articles of faith and five pillars of Islam

noun:

• the five pillars of Islam and six articles of faith ➜ 六信五行

noun:

• caesiura dwarfgoby (Trimma caesiura, goby from the Western Pacific)

noun:

• Western hydrangea; Hydrangea macrophylla

noun:

• foreign priest; Western priest - obscure term

noun:

• the milk of human kindness of the people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods - four character idiom

noun:

• extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge) ➜ 枢【くるる】

noun:

• squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae)
• Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis) ➜ 日本栗鼠

noun:

• stage made of Japanese cypress
• the limelight; the big time

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅【みかのもちい】

expression:

• one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat [literal]

noun:

• mixed vegetable and seafood tempura ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・掻揚げ・掻揚］
• something pulled upwards
• small castle with a simple earthen-walled moat ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・搔き揚げ］ - abbreviation ➜ かき揚げ城【かきあげじろ】
• turning up a lamp wick

noun:

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

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; for the most important parts to be done; the nose and eyes are in place [literal] - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

noun:

• taste (of a liquid, esp. alcoholic beverages) - usu. のみくち
• someone who enjoys alcohol
• place one's lips touch on the rim of a cup
• shape of one's mouth when drinking
• tap; faucet; spigot - usu. のみぐち

expression:

• prevention is better than cure; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; look before you leap; forewarned is forearmed; a stitch in time saves nine; a walking stick before stumbling [literal] - proverb