expression / ichidan verb:

• to see the light of day; to be revealed (to the world); to be realized

expression / adjective:

• to be of no concern to one; to be nothing to do with one

noun:

• castle and moat; castle's moat - obscure term
• City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be within the top five; to be one of the five best - idiom

noun:

• Burmese rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus); angsana; amboyna; amboina - not 榠樝
• flowering quince (of genus Chaenomeles) (Pseudocydonia sinensis); Chinese quince (Chaenomeles sinensis) - not 花林 or 花櫚
• quince (Cydonia oblonga) - only 花梨 or カリン

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• serving (of food); helping

noun:

• chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce - abbreviation ➜ 盛り蕎麦

noun:

• fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe) ➜ 本生り
• weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man; pallid man

noun:

• cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning
• (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring) ➜ 煤掃き

expression:

• (bringing up a child) with greatest care pampering (him, her) with material comforts of a rich family; (being brought up) in a hothouse atmosphere - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

noun:

• Pokemon seizure incident (Dec. 16, 1997); incident in which flashing lights in a Pokemon episode induced seizures in hundreds of viewers - From English "Pokemon shock"

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• with a complacent smile; with a smile of satisfaction

noun:

• per unit time; rate per unit of time

noun:

• something somebody said; nature of something somebody said - honorific language

noun:

• long-handled Chinese spear; lance; pike
• weapon; arms ［ほこ］
• grip of a bow ［ほこ］
• parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears - abbreviation ➜ 矛山車

noun:

• performing solo (by oneself); having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled) - four character idiom

noun:

• spotted surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus strigosus, species of bristletooth tang found in Hawaii, Johnston Island, and Australia); goldring surgeonfish; goldring bristletooth

noun:

• someone who has a title but no real duty; useless person ➜ 取り巻き
• actor playing a daimyo who merely sets the scene as part of the background (in kabuki) - original meaning ➜ 大名

noun:

• white
• striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus) ➜ 鯔【ぼら】
• speech; one's lines ➜ せりふ
• white dragon tile - Mahjong term
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles - Mahjong term
• white person; Caucasian - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 白人

prefix noun / suffix noun / noun:

• Belgium - abbreviation - obscure term ➜ ベルギー

noun:

• one's favourite party trick (favorite); one's specialty; one's forte
• No. 18; eighteenth ［じゅうはちばん］
• repertoire of 18 kabuki plays ［じゅうはちばん］ - abbreviation ➜ 歌舞伎十八番

noun:

• the facts; the truth; the true state of affairs

adverbial noun:

• in truth; in fact; in reality; actually

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be disgusted with; to be fed up with; to run out of patience with

expression / noun:

• how it came about; how it originated; how it happened; the origins of the imbroglio

noun:

• mask squeeze; unequal pressure between the mask air space and the vascular pressure within the blood vessels of the face

expression:

• one cannot shake the will of even the lowliest man; a person's will should be respected; even a menial deserves his convictions - proverb