noun:

• cord used to tuck up the sleeves of a kimono
• sash (worn across chest, e.g. by election candidate or relay runners)
• wrapper band on books, CDs, etc. ➜ 帯紙・帯【おび】

noun:

• patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; financial supporter
• sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha) ➜ 芸者・旦那
• patron; master; manager; boss

noun:

• stone paving; cobble paving; sett; flagstone
• stone steps ➜ 石段
• check (pattern) ➜ 市松
• pavé; rectangular dessert (usu. made from chocolate or several layers of sponge cake) ［石畳・石だたみ・石畳み］ - Food term

noun:

• pot - polite language
• typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period - archaism
• working at night
• female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite) - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - slang

noun:

• spices; condiments; seasoning
• adjuvant (in Chinese medicine); addition of an adjuvant - Medicine term
• meat, fish, vegetables, etc. added to rice or udon (e.g to make gomoku meshi) - Kansai dialect ➜ 五目飯

adverb / ~する noun:

• roughly; approximately; loosely - onomatopoeia
• cutting or breaking apart with vigour - onomatopoeia
• deeply (cut or split) - onomatopoeia
• rough (woollens, etc., as adjectival phrase with (to)shita) - onomatopoeia
• sound of treading on pebbles - onomatopoeia

noun / adjectival noun:

• tedium; boredom; dullness

~する noun:

• to feel bored; to get bored with; to get tired of

noun / ~する noun:

• weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection
• selection (e.g. natural selection) ➜ 自然淘汰【しぜんとうた】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pull out; to draw out; to disconnect
• to steal contents of; to pilfer (from); to pickpocket

noun:

• memorial service; temple service - Buddhism term
• (Nichiren Buddhism) memorial service for Nichiren (13th day of 10th month)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to say as a tradition; to customarily say
• to have a habit of saying

noun:

• Deva gate; temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings; temple gate of the Nio

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become used to the (ways of the) world; to become worldly or sophisticated

ichidan verb:

• to give way to the light of the morning (i.e. the darkness gives way)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dump (a load of something)
• to throw from a height; to throw downwards

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make the most of the present; to live for the moment; to seize the day

noun:

• water and moon
• the moon reflected on the water
• pit of the stomach; solar plexus ➜ 水落

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

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)