noun:

• impudent talk; speaking without thinking; continuing talking even after one has lost an argument; (getting in) the last word; talking back; needless retort

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving (e.g. work at end of day); withdrawal (e.g. from a noble's or superior's presence); exit (e.g. from a market)

noun:

• secret or hidden place
• female genitalia - euph.
• the underworld; the other world

noun:

• penitence by chanting sutras; confession (of sins); Tendai ritual of chanting Lotus Sutra or to Kanzeon, Amida, or Kichijoten for forgiveness of sins performed unknowingly - Buddhism term

noun / suffix noun:

• penitence sutra - Buddhism term

noun:

• guidebook to penitence - Buddhism term

noun:

• familiar (spirit or otherwise magical creature which aids a magician or sorcerer); familiar spirit

noun:

• forming a four-of-a-kind by adding a self-drawn tile to an open three-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 加槓・槓

noun:

• lodging; inn; hotel
• house; home; dwelling
• home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress

noun:

• new members of society (esp. after turning 20 or joining a company); new working adults

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a picture or video of oneself (esp. with cellphone camera); self-taken picture; selfie - colloquialism

adverb:

• something going right into or coming right out of a place where it fits snugly - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / noun:

• careless; sloppy; faulty

noun:

• using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing); piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors

noun:

• fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward) Antonym: 上がり
• string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt - Sumo term
• food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs - usu. as お下がり ➜ お下がり
• leaving (one's master's place for home)

suffix noun / noun:

• a little after ...

noun:

• three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)

noun:

• journey; course; distance; march; flight; drive; leg (of a journey, relay race, etc.)
• itinerary
• stroke (of a piston); throw (of a switch)

expression:

• a journey of a thousand miles feels like only one mile (when going to see the one you love) - proverb

adverb / ~の noun:

• more or less; somewhat; a little; a few; some

noun:

• amount; quantity

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to be a willing cats-paw or tool for a person

noun:

• group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)
• non-human - Buddhism term

noun:

• iteration mark shaped like the hiragana "ku" (used in vertical writing to represent repetition of two or more characters) ➜ 踊り字

noun:

• The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes; Shijing; Shih Ching ➜ 五経

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. visiting a shrine or temple a hundred times for prayer, walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time) ➜ 御百度

noun:

• night where one waits for someone who is supposed to come - archaism
• night of the 14th day of the eight month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• anchor (of a ship) ➜ 錨【いかり】
• last runner or swimmer in a relay team
• news anchor; news presenter - abbreviation ➜ アンカーマン
• anchor (clock component); pallet fork ➜ アンクル
• anchor (HTML) - IT term
• link to previous post (e.g. in web forums) - IT term ➜ レスアンカー

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; leadership; instruction; direction; coaching

noun:

• shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo) - Martial Arts term