noun:

• operation to win over someone by using a tactic of gentle persuasion

noun:

• ball not bouncing (e.g. in a catch) - Baseball term - From English "no bound"

noun:

• young person with a monkey-like face (nickname for Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

noun:

• furigana where kana is associated each character of a compound ➜ モノルビ

noun:

• furigana where kana is associated a whole compound - From English "group ruby" ➜ モノルビ

expression / noun:

• family crest shaped as a hemp leaf
• motif made from entwined hexagons

noun:

• Texas rig; fishing with a soft plastic lure

expression:

• ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist

noun / ~する noun:

• preservation of obsolete machinery in a functional condition (e.g. train engines) ➜ 静態保存

noun:

• xiaochi; Chinese street food consumed as a light meal or snack - Food term

noun:

• voice chat (e.g. in a video game)

noun:

• verbal command (in dog training) ➜ 視符
• sound part of a semasio-phonetic kanji ➜ 形声文字【けいせいもじ】

noun:

• hidden dora tile available when a player wins by riichi - Mahjong term

expression:

• being ready to drink sake by the keg; drinking like a fish

noun:

• winning on a tile robbed from another player's kong - Mahjong term ➜ 加槓【かカン】

noun:

• sun symbol (e.g. in a weather forecast)

noun:

• swatting; deceiving the police into sending armed officers to a particular address

noun:

• regulation baseball (as opposed to the variety played with a rubber ball) ➜ 軟式野球

noun:

• peak of a financial bubble (esp. in Japan around 1990)

noun:

• ruby - esp. ルビー
• ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material) - esp. ルビ
• Ruby (programming language) ［ルビー］ - IT term

noun:

• truths of the cessation of suffering and of the way to the cessation of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 道諦・滅諦

noun:

• the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them - four character idiom
• (in colloquial usage, ironically or as an excuse) the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor

noun:

• beginning and end

noun / ~する noun:

• doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end

adverb:

• from beginning to end; the whole time; throughout; consistently

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be left without means of sustenance; to be turned adrift in the streets; to be rendered homeless; to be out in the cold; to be down and out - idiom

adverb / ~する noun:

• (doing) various things; (doing) this and that

adverb:

• being apt to; being prone to; tending to
• at any rate; anyhow; anyway

~の noun:

• all sorts of (negative things); various

noun:

• things that do not exist; rabbit horns [literal] ［兎角］ - idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 亀毛兎角