noun:

• bill (at a restaurant); check

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be drowned at sea

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be drowned at sea ➜ 海の藻屑となる

noun:

• type of detector used at airports

~と adverb:

• flicker (light); waver - onomatopoeia
• trickle (water) - onomatopoeia
• glance at - onomatopoeia

noun:

• menu (at a Chinese restaurant)

noun:

• hostess (at a bar, cabaret, etc.)

noun:

• car in stock (at a dealership)

noun:

• meal announcer (at a Zen monastery) - Buddhism term

noun:

• person who dislikes staying at home ➜ 外嫌い

noun:

• lamps lit at night in spring

expression / noun:

• long marriage; twin pines at Takasago [literal] ➜ 高砂【たかさご】

noun:

• fellow (at an academic institution, etc.)

noun:

• head priest (at a Buddhist temple)

expression / noun:

• attention seeker; look-at-me - colloquialism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to swing late (at a ball) - Sports term

noun:

• cicada singing at dusk

noun / ~する noun:

• coming to live (at a place)

noun:

• top star (esp. male lead role in the all-female Takarazuka musical theater troupe); major celebrity

expression:

• being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one) - four character idiom
• know-it-all manner

noun:

• universal life force (the source of animation for all things)
• free spirit (i.e. a mindset unencumbered with worldly concerns)

adverb:

• please; kindly; I beg of you; if it pleases you - humble language ➜ どうぞ
• by all means; without fail ➜ どうぞ

adverb:

• anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; all kinds of this; this and that

noun:

• spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures - four character idiom

noun:

• Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures (all administrative divisions of Japan except Tokyo-to)