adjectival noun:

• sudden; abrupt; unexpected
• urgent; pressing
• steep; sharp; precipitous
• rapid; swift; fast

noun:

• emergency; crisis; danger
• urgency; hurrying; haste
• (in gagaku or noh) end of a song ➜ 序破急

noun:

• flow rate (esp. water or electricity); quantity of flow; capacity (of output or throughput per unit time)

~の noun / noun:

• longish; moderately long ➜ 長め

noun:

• stretcher; long side of timber (etc.), or a timber placed lengthwise - Architecture term
• long road - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to determine whether something is right or wrong; to make something clear; to settle a matter - colloquialism

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• rock fight; stone-throwing fight ➜ 石合戦
• custom by which neighbours or friends threw rocks inside a couple's house on their wedding night

noun / ~する noun:

• mixture; intermixture; mixing up; jumbling together
• contamination; creation of unorthodox words or phrases by combining terms of similar form or meaning - Linguistics term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• fully satisfied; well satisfied (e.g. with an explanation or apology); to have one's heart completely cleared of doubt or grudge

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun / ~する noun:

• overseas travel (to Western countries); going abroad (to study or travel)

noun:

• store operated by a foreigner (in pre-communist China)

noun:

• economy of scale; cost saving or benefit from having a larger scale (e.g. of production) - From English "scale merit" ➜ 規模効果

noun:

• nitrogen mustard (chemical compound related to mustard gas, used as a chemical weapon or an anticarcinogen)

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

noun:

• flower charcoal (whereby a flower, seed, branch, or other item of flora is carbonized as is, retaining its form)

noun:

• under the tracks; area under the girders of a railway or highway (often used for shops, bars, etc.) ➜ ガード

noun:

• little three dragons; winning hand that contains two pungs or kongs of dragons and a pair of the third dragon - Mahjong term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to observe the reasons and types of faults a person makes is to come to know whether they are virtuous or not

~する noun:

• blowing air into a dive mask through the nose to clear out the water or equalize the pressure - From English "mask blow" ➜ マスククリア

noun / ~の noun:

• position in a game of go or shogi; state of the game
• aspect of an affair; situation

expression:

• for some reason or other; somehow or other; by some chance - usu. ~に or ~で

noun:

• eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); eastern provinces - archaism
• east - archaism
• six-stringed Japanese zither - abbreviation ➜ 東琴
• my spouse ［吾妻・吾嬬］

noun:

• 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

noun:

• elegance; grace; refinement; class; dignity

suffix:

• article; item

suffix / counter:

• counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant) - sometimes pronounced ぴん

noun:

• phenomime; mimetic word; word that mimics an action, condition, or manner that does not make a sound (e.g. "damp", "calmly") - e.g., じめじめ、ゆったり - Linguistics term