noun:

• boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)

noun:

• ghost runner; placeholder used when fewer than 9 members are present on a team - Baseball term

temporal noun:

• today; this day; used in theater (kyogen, noh song, kabuki) when emphasizing ➜ 今日
• these days; recently; nowadays ➜ 今日

noun:

• kidney grille; two-section rounded radiator grill, as used on BMW vehicles

expression / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• cloth; fabric; material; texture
• dough; batter
• inherent quality; one's true character; one's true colours
• unglazed pottery
• skin with no make-up

noun / ~する noun:

• combining the working parts of two or more broken machines to make one functioning machine
• manufacturing one part out of multiple different parts

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be congenial; to agree with one; to be in one's nature

expression / ichidan verb:

• to extend one's arm; to reach out; to offer one's hand

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to speak sharply; to sharpen one's tone; to raise one's voice

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to be frank; to speak one's mind; to open one's heart ➜ 打明ける

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give one's name; to introduce oneself
• to announce one's candidacy

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to ripen
• to give one's everything; to make one's best effort - idiom ➜ 身が入る

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to shine ➜ 射す
• to be visible
• to be tinged with
• to rise (of water levels); to flow in
• to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one ➜ 気が差す・魔が差す

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hold up (an umbrella, etc.); to put up; to raise
• to extend one's arm straight ahead (in dance) ➜ 指す
• to insert; to put in ➜ 挿す
• to wear (a sword) in one's belt; to wear at one's side; to carry under one's arm ➜ 挿す
• to insert one's arm under an opponent's arm - Sumo term
• to pole (a boat) ➜ 刺す
• to pour; to add (liquid); to serve (drinks) ➜ 注す
• to put on (lipstick, etc.); to apply; to colour; to dye
• to light (a fire); to burn
• to shut; to close; to lock; to fasten ➜ 鎖す【さす】

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to stop in the midst of; to leave undone - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 止す【さす】

noun:

• cheese ➜ 乾酪
• tee (piping); T-joint

interjection:

• cheese (expression used when taking a photograph) - usu. as はい、チーズ

noun / ~する noun:

• sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar
• rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment ➜ 喝【かつ】

noun:

• old kana orthography (used before 1946 reform); historical kana ortography ➜ 歴史的仮名遣い・新仮名遣い

noun:

• adding more tea; adding fresh leaves to used ones in a teapot

noun / ~する noun:

• speech; utterance; starting to speak

noun:

• word used to start a sentence - e.g. さて, いざ, それ

noun:

• coarse, low-grade tea
• tea (often used when offering someone a cup) - humble language

noun:

• roots of herbs and barks of trees used in Chinese medicine - four character idiom

noun:

• KuTen code; matrix code system used in JIS character standards - IT term

noun:

• merchant's home (esp. used by apprentices, etc.) ➜ 店【たな】
• (your) rental home ➜ 店【たな】

noun:

• steel made from iron sand or black sand (used in sword blades)

noun:

• location information (as used by location-based services, e.g. GPS position)