noun:

• United States of America; USA ➜ アメリカ合衆国
• United States Army; U.S. Army; USA ➜ アメリカ陸軍

noun:

• lightning strike; thunderbolt; bolt of lightning

~する noun:

• to strike (lightning); to be struck by lightning

noun:

• appearing in one's finest clothes; appearing in one's hour of triumph

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to disgrace one's ancestors; to tarnish the honour of one's ancestors

noun / ~する noun:

• make an issue or problem of something; something becoming a problem or issue

noun:

• (written) resignation from a political party; notice of resignation from a party

noun:

• student at the same middle school; graduate of the same middle school - colloquialism

expression:

• to be conceited; to be stuck up; to be full of oneself; to be cocky

noun:

• face with no make-up; unpainted face
• true face (of a country, celebrity, etc.); real face; true picture; real nature
• sober face; sobriety

godan ~く verb:

• to beat vigorously; to rain strikes upon someone; to tan someone's hide; to mercilessly pummel; to beat the daylights out of

adjective:

• hot (thing) Antonym: 冷たい
• passionate (feelings, etc.); ardent; hot (e.g. gaze) Antonym: 冷たい
• hot (e.g. temper)
• zealous; enthusiastic; fired up
• intense; severe; extreme
• hot (topic); of interest

noun:

• gas (state of matter, e.g. poison gas, natural gas) - From Dutch or English
• gasoline; gas; petrol
• dense fog; thick fog
• gas stove; gas cooker; gas range - abbreviation ➜ ガス焜炉
• flatulence; gas; wind; fart - colloquialism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• thump-thump; bang-bang; pit-a-pat; pitapat; pitter-patter - onomatopoeia

~する noun:

• to beat fast (of one's heart); to throb; to pound; to palpitate - onomatopoeia

noun / ~の noun:

• tone-deafness; amusia; having no ear for music

adjectival noun:

• tone-deaf; off-key

suffix:

• having no sense (of something); being hopeless (when it comes to something)

noun / ~する noun:

• cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]

noun:

• forgetting one's serious objectives by becoming engrossed in trivial pursuits; being distracted by trivial objects and losing sight of one's original goal - four character idiom

noun:

• solar pond (salty pond in which energy from solar energy accumulates in the lower layers, due to lack of convection)

noun:

• Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture)
• small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate Prefecture)

noun:

• marginal seal (special seal affixed into the margins of an official document to indicate that any later revisions to the document are valid)

noun:

• Zen monk's waistcoat (short, informal kasaya) - archaism ➜ 袈裟・絡子【らくす】
• ring (usu. made of ivory) attached to this waistcoat
• netsuke; item attached to a netsuke ➜ 根付け

noun:

• red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)

noun:

• pigeon seen on the morning of the New Year (e.g. as one is going to the shrine or temple for the New Year prayers)

noun:

• type of stew, usu. fish or vegetables in a mild broth; fish grilled unseasoned and then simmered slowly in soy and mirin broth

noun:

• hourglass figure; having a good-looking, full-bodied figure (of a woman); big breasts and buttocks, tight waist - slang

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to startle someone; to make someone jump out of their skin; to take someone by surprise; to pull someone's butt hair [literal] - idiom ➜ 尻毛