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• good for nothing (of large people); big but useless - idiom

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• compensating for one's shortcomings by incorporating others' strong points - four character idiom

noun:

• mixture of frangrant woods, etc. used for making incense

noun:

• box for shipping seafood (usually made of styrofoam)

noun / ~する noun:

• studying for a test (esp. school or university entrance examinations)

noun:

• Skene's gland (possibly responsible for female ejaculation)

noun:

• nakiri bocho, var. of Japanese knife used for cutting vegetables

noun:

• straw or hay (laid out in barns for livestock) - obscure term

noun:

• hijab; Muslim head covering for women - From Arabic

noun:

• alternative name for henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis) ➜ ハチク

noun:

• International Military Tribunal for the Far East; IMTFE; Tokyo Trials ➜ 東京裁判

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• Tokyo Trials; International Military Tribunal for the Far East; IMTFE ➜ 極東国際軍事裁判

noun:

• table of mathematical decompression and oxygen toxicity models for divers - From English "dive table"

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• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

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• guidance, warning tile blocks for the visually impaired ➜ 視覚障害者

noun:

• pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon) - obscure term ➜ 貝多羅葉

noun:

• single kanji dictionary (usu. for use in an Input Method)

noun:

• advanced standing (in school or college); credit for prior studies

noun:

• kanji for "takara" (impressed on the obverse of a coin) ➜ 宝

noun:

• living god (honorific term for the emperor) - archaism ➜ 現つ神

noun:

• living god (honorific term for the emperor) - archaism - honorific language

noun:

• inner practice hall (for Buddhism; on the imperial palace grounds)

noun:

• seeking a venue (usu. for litigation) - From English "forum shopping"

noun:

• ANSER; Automatic Answer Network System for Electrical Request - IT term

noun:

• word processor function for handling line breaking rules in Japanese - IT term