expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to dominate; to prevail; to be superior to; to get ahead of; to get the upper hand

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• off-focus (photography); out of focus ➜ ピント
• off the mark; off the point; irrelevant ➜ ピント

noun / ~する noun:

• letter (e.g. of complaint); letter to the editor; letter from a reader
• contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.) ➜ 投稿

noun:

• lost work; lost writings
• partially lost work; literary fragment; work that survives through quotations
• work of a superior quality

noun:

• life-saving sword (a killing sword may be a sword of life depending on how it is used)

ichidan verb:

• to bind together (e.g. the pages of a book); to sew up; to tape together; to stitch together

noun:

• Desjardin's sailfin tang (Zebrasoma desjardinii, species of Indian Ocean tang); Indian sail-fin surgeonfish; Red Sea sailfin tang

noun:

• 1000 sheets (of paper); many pages ［せんまい］
• book tripe; bible tripe; leaf tripe; beef omasum; cow omasum; cow psalterium - usually written using kana alone - Food term

noun:

• regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)

noun:

• moral culture; spiritual culture; culture born through the workings of the human mind (science, religion, philosophy, religion, art, etc.) ➜ 物質文化

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to chill one's bones (e.g. because of cold, pain, etc.); to be very cold; to be scathing

adjective:

• thin - in ref. to objects, not to people
• pale; light; faint
• watery; thin; dilute
• weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
• slim (probability, etc.); small
• sparse; patchy; scattered

adverb:

• exactly; surely; certainly; just - esp. 正に when in kanji
• right then; just then; at that moment
• just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening) - esp. 将に when in kanji
• duly; naturally - esp. 当に when in kanji

~の noun:

• worm-eaten; moth-eaten

noun:

• holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.
• leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~の noun:

• place where things are sold; point of sale; POS; sales floor; counter (in shop)

noun:

• favorable time to sell; good time to sell ➜ 売り時・買い場

noun:

• closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; end-of-life (care, decision making, etc.)

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final

noun:

• riding; ride
• spread (of paints)

suffix noun:

• -seater (e.g. two-seater)

noun:

• (getting into the) mood; (entering into the) spirit; energy; enthusiasm; rhythm; feeling - esp. ノリ. possibly from 気乗り - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• night express with sleeper cars (from the original color of the trains) (colour)

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom

noun:

• fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)

noun:

• jacket type (e.g. a style of clothing)
• jacket-style buoyancy control device (BCD) shaped like a sleeveless coat

noun:

• golden-lined spinefoot (Siganus lineatus, species of Indo-West Pacific rabbitfish); goldlined rabbitfish

noun:

• white-freckled surgeonfish (Acanthurus maculiceps, species of tang from the Indo-West Pacific); spot-face surgeon; pale-lined surgeonfish; yellow-freckled surgeon fish

noun:

• longfin batfish (Platax teira, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish); Tiera batfish ［つばめうお・ツバメウオ］
• flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo) - obscure term ➜ 飛び魚

noun:

• hole in the curtains to allow someone backstage to see the audience (in kabuki theatre) - obscure term
• public observation; feel of being watched; casual observers - obscure term ➜ 人目