noun:

• gold hook (esp. for fishing); gold-colored hook

noun:

• special deregulation zone; special zone for structural reform ➜ 構造改革【こうぞうかいかく】

noun:

• ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; steamship ［船・舟］ - 舟 is often small and hand-propelled
• tank; tub; vat; trough

suffix noun / counter:

• counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi) ［船・舟］

noun:

• flag

suffix:

• tag indicating a future role or status for a character in anime, games, etc. (e.g. death, love, survival) - slang

noun:

• boy or doll dressed in ancient Chinese clothes
• hairstyle inspired by such a doll (esp. for female children) (Edo period)

noun:

• drainboard; floor grates; duckboard; slatted wood (e.g. used as a base for storing futons inside a cupboard)

noun:

• carrying (on one's shoulder); bearing; shouldering; taking responsibility for
• bucket carried on either end of a pole - abbreviation ➜ 担い桶

noun:

• hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.) ➜ 片仮名

noun / ~する noun:

• service; ministry; attendance; church work
• offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free

noun / ~する noun:

• girl hunt; trying to pick up a girl; looking for a girlfriend ➜ ボーイハント

noun:

• bunt performed for a base hit - Baseball term - From English "safety bunt" ➜ 犠牲バント

noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

noun:

• starting point for an ascent (mountain, stairs, etc.); base (of mountain, etc.) - esp. 上 for stairs, 登 for mountain

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• tender sentiments; being overcome with emotions; having a tender feeling (for a person) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• working on a day off (to make up for lost time, or to make an impression)

noun:

• small okurigana used with kanbun
• small kana used for diphthongs (ya, yo, yu, i, etc.)

noun:

• lay ancestral hall; hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners
• small shrine

expression:

• unable to find adequate words (e.g. to express feelings); being at a loss for words

noun:

• day of national humiliation (used in China for certain anniversaries of incidents where Japan humiliated China)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick; to paste; to affix - esp. 貼る

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to stretch; to spread; to strain; to tighten; to put up (tent)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to form (e.g. ice on a pond)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to fill; to swell

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick out; to put; to slap

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be expensive

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to keep a watch on; to be on the lookout

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become one tile away from completion ［張る］ - Mahjong term ➜ テンパる・聴牌

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to span; to generate - Mathematics term

noun:

• taking over (e.g. store or family's headship)
• subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)

noun / ~の noun:

• main body (of troops)
• nucleus; backbone; mainstay; key figure
• center field; centre field; center fielder; centre fielder

noun:

• athlete competing in the middle-number match in a team competition, i.e. second in 3-on-3, third in 5-on-5 (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】

noun / ~の noun:

• medium-level; mid-level; midsize

noun / ~する noun:

• searching for a marriage partner; marriage hunting; activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc. - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 結婚活動

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp
• to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake
• to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful - often as 冴えない
• to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute
• to be satisfying - often as 冴えない ➜ 冴えない
• to become frigid; to become intensely cold - original meaning; now somewhat old-fashioned

noun:

• word for word; one word - four character idiom