noun:

• safe tile; tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 安全牌
• no-risk choice; easily handled person - abbreviation - idiom ➜ 安全牌

noun:

• critical argument laden with value judgment, where an indirect cause, often trivial, is made to appear as leading to the effect

noun:

• blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology)
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 四神

noun / ~する noun:

• playing around; having an active sex life; casual homosexual sexual activity - esp. gay sex ➜ 発展【はってん】

noun:

• (gay) cruising spot; (gay) pick-up joint (e.g. bar) - abbreviation ➜ ハッテン場

noun:

• junk ball (pitch); off-speed pitch - Baseball term
• unexpected move; unorthodox measure
• statement, request, etc. with an ulterior motive ［曲球］

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to conquer (e.g. an enemy); to defeat ［打ち勝つ・打勝つ］
• to overcome (a difficulty)
• to out-hit ［打ち勝つ・打勝つ］

noun / ~する noun:

• community door-to-door campaign; search operation; cleaning campaign carried out thoroughly over an area

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

~する noun:

• swat - to hit with a sharp slapping blow usually with an instrument (as a bat or flyswatter)

noun:

• Naude's rubble goby (Trimma naudei, an Indo-West Pacific fish species); rubble dwarfgoby; red pygmy-goby

interjection:

• shh! (used to silence someone); sh! ➜ しっ
• shoo! (used to drive off an approaching animal, etc.) ➜ しっ

suffix / adjective:

• -ish; -like; -looking - after a noun, the -nai stem of a verb, or repetitive syllables

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to train to; to give an idea to

noun:

• rice from an early harvest; early rice ➜ 遅場米

noun:

• examination (exam) questions; questions for an examination

noun:

• kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat - polite language - female language ➜ 炬燵【こたつ】

noun:

• aizuchi; back-channeling; interjections indicating that one is paying attention
• two smiths hammering at an object in turn ➜ 向こう鎚

noun:

• performance; take; going before an audience or on-air - colloquialism ➜ 本番【ほんばん】
• game; season; crucial moment - colloquialism ➜ 本番【ほんばん】
• actual sexual intercourse (i.e. not simulated); penetration - colloquialism ➜ 本番【ほんばん】

noun:

• kiss and cry; area in an ice rink where figure skaters wait for their marks to be announced - Sports term

noun:

• official injury exemption system; system for exempting players injured in an official match from pay reduction or demotion - Sports term

noun:

• billhook; fascine knife; sickle-shaped tool with a sharp inner edge, halfway between a knife and an axe

noun / ~する noun:

• keeping a close watch on both sides; keeping an eye on two things at the same time

expression:

• hindsight is 20-20 (even for a fool); an afterwit is everybody's wit - proverb

noun:

• inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦
• death pains; agony of death

noun:

• exercise regime to convert breech presentation; trying to correct an unborn child's improper position so that the head comes out first

noun:

• driving away moles by hitting the ground with straw bundles prepared by children (esp. as an annual event on January 15th)