noun:

• large bell (at a shrine)

noun:

• Medal with Yellow Ribbon (outstanding service)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fold and pile up

noun:

• women's New Year (15th day of the first month of the year); New Year for women who were too busy to celebrate on the 1st (Kyoto-Osaka) ➜ 小正月

expression:

• do not befriend those beneath you - from the Analects of Confucius - proverb

noun:

• glutinous rice steamed with red beans or some other ingredient - Food term ➜ 赤飯・強飯【こわめし】
• trickery; deception - archaism

noun:

• rice ball - polite language ➜ おにぎり

noun / ~する noun:

• forced borrowing

adjectival noun / noun:

• glutton

noun:

• flow of music

expression:

• to the end ➜ 始めから

adjective:

• awesome; awe-inspiring; august

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to crush to death; to stifle to death; to squeeze to death
• to stifle (a laugh, etc.); to muffle (one's breathing); to subdue (one's voice); to conceal (e.g. one's emotions)

noun:

• seventh lunar month - obscure term ➜ 文月

adjective:

• humorous; funny; amusing; laughable; hilarious; comical; jocular

noun:

• woman with a turbulent love life; woman always having man trouble

noun:

• (the study of) acoustics

noun:

• front door

noun:

• internal wiring (within a building) - IT term

pre-noun adjectival:

• apparently; appears to be ➜ 思しい

noun:

• blind date

noun:

• womanizing; debauchery; philandering

adjective:

• pushy; pushing; self-assertive

expression:

• women are not as clever as they think; women should know their place; even a clever woman will fail at selling a cow [literal] - proverb

interjection:

• Hi!; Yo!; Hey man!; Hey dude!; greeting used between close male friends