adverb:

• with a clunk; with a clank - onomatopoeia
• the sound of a sudden decrease (in profits, vigor, etc.)

adverb:

• a great deal; very much; a lot - onomatopoeia
• with a great amount of effort - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun:

• declaring a concealed kong; forming a concealed four-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun:

• Japan Defense Agency (Defence) (became Japanese Ministry of Defense in Jan. 2007) ➜ 防衛省

noun:

• Japanese sable (subspecies of sable native to Hokkaido, Martes zibellina brachyura)

noun:

• miscellany (classification of Japanese poetry unrelated to the seasons or to love)

noun:

• cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae); potentilla; Japanese alpine perennial of the rose family

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to handle well; to handle deftly
• to deal with; to manage; to settle; to sort; to process
• to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.); to cut and trim (fish)
• to sell out (completely); to dispose of (all stock)
• to untangle; to disentangle; to part; to arrange (e.g. the hem of a kimono)

interjection / noun:

• crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture)
• something worthy of celebration
• giving up ［ばんざい］
• long time - archaism
• eternal life (and prosperity) - archaism

interjection:

• banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)

~と adverb:

• (with a) slap; smack; whack; sound of a sharp blow with something flat - onomatopoeia
• wham; sound of striking with something solid - onomatopoeia
• zap; crack; sound of thunder - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sencha tea ceremony; Way of Sencha Tea; Chinese-influenced Japanese tea ceremony using leaf tea rather than powdered tea, assoc. with the Ōbaku school of zen ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】・黄檗宗【おうばくしゅう】

noun:

• biography of a brave fighter; heroic saga; chivalric romance
• tale of one's heroism; episode of bravery; acts of violence

noun:

• (inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence

noun:

• foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

noun:

• title of a book; title of a literary work

noun / ~する noun:

• partial payment of a debt; reduction of a debt

noun:

• leaking of a secret; leakage of a secret

noun:

• spirit of a poem; true meaning of a poem

noun:

• writer (of a poem); composer (of a poem) ➜ 読み手

noun:

• name of a god
• name of a shrine

noun:

• shadow of a bird; sighting of a bird

noun:

• opening of a banquet; opening of a wedding reception

noun:

• coming out; emerging
• being born into (a certain family); being a native of (a particular place)

noun:

• Common Era; CE; Christian Era; anno domini; AD
• Western (Gregorian) calendar

noun:

• revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan) - four character idiom