noun:

• combination of cards (in hanafuda) that give bonus points ➜ 手役

noun:

• amah (foreign maid or nursemaid working in east Asia) - From Portuguese "ama"

noun:

• mouse unit (unit of toxicity in poisons)

noun:

• younger pupil (under the same master as oneself); new disciple

noun:

• summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 茅の輪

noun:

• threefold truth (all things are void; all things are temporary; all things are in the middle state between these two) (in Tendai) - Buddhism term

noun:

• location awareness (as in a system or device)

ichidan verb:

• to hasten (the work); to urge (a person) on

noun:

• folding chair (with tubular metal frame)

noun:

• Tetraodon (largest genus in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae)

noun:

• senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)

noun:

• Galeorhinus (genus whose only member is the school shark, Galeorhinus galeus, in the family Triakidae)

noun:

• card only worth 1 point (in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• erhu (2-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow); erh hu

noun:

• seventh of January (lunar calendar) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant); IS; ISIL

noun:

• thumbing (in boxing, poking a thumb in one's opponent's eye)

noun:

• island arc (like the Aleutian Islands)

noun:

• Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 張

noun:

• freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium spp., esp. the Oriental river prawn, Macrobrachium nipponense)

noun / ~する noun:

• death of a Christian (in Catholicism) ➜ 召天

noun:

• three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)

noun:

• myelin sheath (around the axon of a neuron)

noun:

• heat death (i.e. of the universe)

noun:

• Mahesvara (Shiva in the Buddhist pantheon) - Buddhism term