noun / ~する noun:

• die cutting; cutting with a cutter; shaping with a mold

noun:

• cookie cutter - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• root cutting
• excavation (as preparation for construction)

noun:

• cutting tool

noun:

• ureteral stone; ureteral calculus; ureterolith - Medicine term

noun:

• print from stone; rubbing; rubbed copy

noun:

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

expression:

• constant dripping wears away the stone; little strokes fell great oaks; limited strength, when persistently applied, can accomplish great feats - four character idiom

noun:

• rolling stone; boulder

noun:

• stone axe (ax)

noun:

• sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples

noun:

• cutting short

noun:

• pumice stone
• loose rock; loose stone
• floating group (in the game of go); group without a base

noun:

• stone image of an animal; stone figures of animals

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting off; cut(ting) out

noun:

• horizontal stone hand mill

noun:

• sand and stone; pebble

adjectival noun / noun:

• flat or stone broke

noun:

• Deer-Antler-Cutting Ceremony (held in Nara between late October and early November)

noun:

• stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens

noun:

• stone weights on pickle-tub covers

noun:

• small gate in a mud or stone wall ➜ 穴門【あなもん】

noun:

• poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

noun:

• small gate in a mud or stone wall

noun:

• garden stone