noun:

• yellowtail surgeonfish (Prionurus punctatus, species of Eastern Central Pacific tang found in reefs from the Gulf of California to El Salvador)

noun:

• kerchief worn by women in former times in Japan in cold weather, covering the whole head (except eyes)

noun:

• fire in the neighborhood; fire in the neighbourhood

noun:

• breakthrough in the situation; break in the deadlocked situation - four character idiom

noun:

• belief in the next world; belief in the hereafter - four character idiom

noun:

• Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji) ➜ 味噌

noun:

• substitute national holiday; day off in lieu of a national holiday that falls on a Sunday; compensatory holiday - abbreviation ➜ 振替休日【ふりかえきゅうじつ】

noun:

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

noun:

• living; being alive Antonym: 死に
• freshness; liveliness; vitality
• situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go)
• stet; leave as-is (proofreading) - usually イキ - usually written using kana alone

prefix:

• damned

noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• under the tracks; area under the girders of a railway or highway (often used for shops, bars, etc.) ➜ ガード

noun:

• 43rd year of the sexagenary cycle (year of the Fire Horse, renowned for disasters and the birth of women destined to kill their husbands)

noun / suffix noun:

• edge (of a river, woods, etc.); shoulder (of a road) - sometimes べり as a suffix
• rim; brim; hem; margin; fringe; selvage
• fabric border (of a tatami mat, etc.); edging

noun:

• behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; 2nd year of junior high sickness [literal] - slang - humorous term

noun:

• period of grace (e.g. in which merchant vessels are allowed to leave a belligerent nation's port after an outbreak of war) - Law term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to throw in a shrimp and pull out a whale; to use a sprat to catch a mackerel; to get big returns on a small investment - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• establishing a club (at a school, college, etc.); establishing a division (in a company)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fish; to have a line in the water

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the fields; working on a farm

expression / adjective:

• cloudless (sky); without a cloud (in the sky)

noun:

• luck in a lottery; luck in a raffle

expression:

• In for a penny, in for a pound - idiom

noun:

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be in a tizzy; to be in a frenzy; to have one's eyes light up; to have a different look in one's eyes

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト