noun:

• go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese ➜ 漢音【かんおん】・唐音【とうおん】・呉【ご】

noun:

• floor space index; FSI; floor area ratio; FAR; ratio of building size to lot; plot ratio

noun:

• marimo (variety of algae, Cladophora aegagropila); round green alga; Cladophora ball; lake ball; moss ball

expression:

• one must constantly be on one's guard with ...; one cannot be too careful of ...

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be recognized (by someone of higher status); to be noticed; to get attention

noun:

• senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest) - Shintō term ➜ 宮司・神主
• grasshopper; locust - obscure term

noun:

• safe, easy childbirth - abbreviation
• guardian bodhisattva, buddha or deity of children or childbirth (esp. Ksitigarbha or Avalokitesvara) ➜ 子安観音・子安地蔵

noun:

• coming out; emerging
• being born into (a certain family); being a native of (a particular place)

noun:

• large-flowered cypripedium (species of lady's slipper, Cypripedium macranthos, esp. Cypripedium macranthos var. speciosum)

noun:

• streamlined spinefoot (Siganus argenteus, species of Indo-Pacific rabbitfish); Roman-nose spinefoot; forktail rabbitfish; rabbitface spinefoot

~の noun / noun:

• longish; moderately long ➜ 長め

noun:

• stretcher; long side of timber (etc.), or a timber placed lengthwise - Architecture term
• long road - archaism

noun:

• disaster countermeasures office (temporary structure in case of emergency); headquarters for disaster control; disaster response headquarters

noun:

• tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year

noun:

• citron tea ➜ 柚子
• jelly-like concentrate of sweetened citron peel used to make citron tea ➜ 柚子

noun:

• dark figure (esp. of crime); dark number; hidden figure; difference between the actual and reported figure

noun:

• missed-program webcast; webcast of a serialized TV show (after the TV broadcast); catch-up TV

expression:

• be moderate with your mouth; sickness enters through the mouth, calamities come out of the mouth [literal] - proverb

noun:

• crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray
• difference of opinion; misunderstanding; estrangement; disagreement

adverb:

• noisily; clamorously; boisterously - onomatopoeia
• incessantly (complaining, pestering, etc.); going on and on; making a fuss (of something); playing up - onomatopoeia
• loudly (crying); wailing; bawling; howling - onomatopoeia

noun:

• inferior goods; low-quality article
• trifling gift ［粗品］ - humble language
• gift given out by companies to customers as a token of gratitude; marketing incentive ［粗品］

noun:

• bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza)
• dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn) ➜ 襲の色目

noun:

• symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk)
• turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character - later printed as 〓

noun:

• meat of a fish (e.g. tuna) that is dark red with blood, usu. coming from the parts close to the spine