noun:

• meaningless or stupid turn of phrase that at first glance resembles a wise saying; silly saying; nonsensical proverb - pun on 名言 - humorous term ➜ 名言

noun:

• spirit of a deceased person - honorific language
• the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit ［みたま］ - honorific language ➜ 聖霊

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let slip a secret; to let the cat out of the bag ➜ 問うに落ちず語るに落ちる

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• outblooming even a flower (of a young girl); even the flower blushes (before her beauty) [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• attending someone through the night (guard, nurse)
• act of a woman sleeping with a man (at his bidding)
• keeping overnight vigil over body before burial

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make the smart move (after taking in the situation, etc.) ➜ 気を利かせる
• to do the tactful or helpful thing (after considering someone's feelings) ➜ 気を利かせる

noun:

• candlelight service (e.g. in a church)
• ceremony during a wedding reception where the bride and the groom go from table to table lighting a candle at each

noun:

• root (of a plant)
• root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.)
• root (of all evil, etc.); source; origin; cause; basis
• one's true nature
• (fishing) reef

noun:

• confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika) - obscure term

noun:

• large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp - also written as 大頭
• emperor's encampment

noun:

• left-hand match; begins-with match; matching a sub-string with the beginning of a field - IT term ➜ 部分一致・後方一致

noun:

• one kanji in the name of a nobleperson (with a multiple-kanji name) ➜ 偏諱を賜う

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood (e.g. of a conversation) ➜ 空気を読む

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

expression:

• blue are the hills that are far away; the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; far away smells of flowers; close up smells of dung [literal] - proverb

noun:

• public bath; communal bath
• public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee

noun:

• kanji "leg" or "foot" radical at left
• being (too) late; the past; the previous ［あとへん］

noun:

• (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom

noun:

• cold wind blowing at Lake Biwa around the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar ➜ 法華八講

noun:

• wife; Mrs; madam ［ふじん・はしかし］ - honorific language
• wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.) ［ふじん］ - archaism
• consort of the emperor ［ふじん・ぶにん］ - archaism

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• superficial learning; book learning; merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words - four character idiom

adjectival noun / ~の noun / suffix:

• being fond of; having a liking for
• to the liking of; favored by; popular with

noun:

• staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen buddhism); itinerant priest's lodging - Buddhism term
• providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time - Buddhism term

noun:

• end of a period; end of the world