noun:

• memorial hall; museum (esp. in memory of a person or event)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to release; to let go (of)

noun:

• Shanghainese; Shanghai dialect (of Wu Chinese) ➜ 呉語【ごご】

noun:

• poking one's food around using one's chopsticks; playing with one's food with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

godan ~う verb:

• to be able (to do); to be capable (of doing) ➜ 能わず【あたわず】・能う限り

noun / ~する noun:

• rise and fall; frequent fluctuations (of the market price) - four character idiom

noun:

• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

prefix:

• ... years since construction; ... years old (of a building) - before a number of years, e.g. 築十年

suffix:

• built in ... - after a time, e.g. 1980年築

noun:

• civil status; status (of a person) under the Civil Code

noun:

• panacea; elixir (of life)

noun:

• drugs; ingredients (for Chinese medicine)

noun:

• modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)

noun:

• dining table; a dish (type of food)

noun:

• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower)

noun:

• Vaishya; Vaisya (member of India's merchant-and-farmer caste)

noun:

• ring; loop (of rope)
• halo (of an angel)

noun:

• divine mirror; sacred mirror (one of the three sacred treasures)

noun:

• seamanship; (the art of) navigation

noun:

• clad; cladding (of a fiber) - IT term

noun / ~の noun:

• xenophobia; exclusion (of foreigners)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become bald from the forehead; to recede (of one's hairline)

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

noun:

• personage; person (deserving of respect) - nowadays often used sarcastically - honorific language

noun:

• representativeness; (level of) representation

noun:

• quality; nature (of person)