noun:

• big three dragons; winning hand consisting of pungs or kongs of each of the three types of dragon tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• all terminals; winning hand consisting of only ones and nines as pungs or kongs plus a pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• way of cutting; how to cut or slice

~と adverb:

• smoothly; with a slipping or sliding motion - onomatopoeia

noun:

• big four winds; winning hand containing four kongs or pungs of winds - Mahjong term - From Chinese

expression:

• which is which; one or the other

noun:

• Hemiscylliidae; family of tropical Indo-Pacific longtail carpet sharks or bamboo sharks

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

noun:

• couchette; non-private sleeper car or berth on a European train - From French

expression:

• by mere chance; by some chance; somehow or other; in some way

noun:

• abovementioned item; description at beginning of (this) text or document

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "gu"; "ga" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• at hand; personal effects or belongings

noun:

• wasteland; barren or infertile soil

noun:

• the dead of night; praying all night in a shrine or temple

noun:

• establishing something (e.g. a company or a religious order) by oneself; company or religious order founded in such a way - obscure term

noun:

• current state; present or actual strength

noun:

• sum total of one's marks; total points or score

noun:

• Anacardiaceae; cashew or sumac family

noun:

• hutong; narrow street or alley, esp. in Beijing - From Chinese

noun:

• bouche; filled biscuit or bun - From French

noun / ~の noun:

• aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature

noun:

• sweetbread; thymus or pancreas (esp. of a calf or a lamb) - Food term

noun:

• squatter; person who occupies a building or land without title or permission

noun:

• economy of scale; cost saving or benefit from having a larger scale (e.g. of production) - From English "scale merit" ➜ 規模効果