noun:

• handwritten abbreviation (of kanji)

noun:

• stern (of a warship)

noun:

• artist (of computer game) - IT term - From English "graphic-er"

noun:

• Omphalius pfeifferi pfeifferi (subspecies of top shell)

noun:

• Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm) ➜ 岩虫

noun:

• lower reaches (e.g. of a valley); downstream sector

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "on" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 訓仮名【くんがな】・万葉仮名【まんようがな】

noun:

• porcupine (any mammal of suborder Hystricomorpha)

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow (of moss, etc.)

noun:

• arranger (of music)

noun:

• Rubus croceacanthus (species of raspberry)

noun:

• marbled spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus, species of rabbitfish from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• wedge marks in stone (usu. remaining from stone-splitting, now used for visual effect) - obscure term ➜ 矢【や】

noun:

• boned rib (esp. of pork or beef) - abbreviation ➜ 肋肉

noun:

• yunwei (secondary vowel or consonant following the primary vowel of a Chinese character)

noun:

• elver (type of eel)

noun:

• wobbegong (eleven species of carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae)

noun:

• liquidator (e.g. of a corporation)

noun:

• Parascyllium (genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae)

noun:

• Gollum (genus of one species, Gollum attenuatus, in the family Proscylliidae)

noun:

• dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi ➜ 蜜柑

noun:

• grasping one's chopsticks the same way one might hold a walking stick (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• slender unicorn (Naso minor, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from Mozambique to the Philippines); blackspine unicornfish; little unicorn

noun:

• transperineal biopsy (esp. of the prostate)

noun:

• waning and waxing (usu. of the moon) ➜ 盈虧【えいき】