noun:

• the Three Sacred Treasures (Mirror, Sword and Jewels)
• the three essential status symbols (e.g. cellphone, PC and digital camera)

~と adverb:

• mixed ➜ 入り混じる【いりまじる】

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• ice breaking

noun:

• latest version; latest edition

noun:

• high-quality buckwheat flour (made only using the center of the grain)

noun:

• left kidney

noun:

• Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, third weekend of May)

noun:

• advance sale

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to come; to go - humble language ➜ 参じる・参る
• to participate ➜ 参じる
• to perform Zen meditation ➜ 参じる

noun:

• revisit rate (e.g. for WWW sites); visitor retention rate

noun:

• last place; lowest position; lowest rank

~の noun:

• least significant (bit); lowest order - IT term

noun:

• brewer's rice

noun:

• event hall

noun:

• threesome - colloquialism

noun:

• strong nighttime wind

noun:

• (killing) sword; blade; steel

noun:

• boned rib (esp. of pork or beef) - Food term ➜ 肋肉【ばらにく】

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pass an exam - idiom

godan ~る verb:

• to change the state of things

noun / ~する noun:

• falling as flowers do; dying a glorious death

noun:

• rediscount

noun:

• second cousin - はいとこ is Tohoku dialect ➜ 又従兄弟【またいとこ】

noun:

• the hole (between third and short); area between the third baseman and shortstop - Baseball term

noun:

• annual income and expenditure