adjectival noun / noun:

• spare time; free time; leisure

noun:

• time (e.g. time it takes to do something) ［ひま・ヒマ］

adjectival noun / noun:

• time off; day off; vacation; holiday; leave
• quitting (one's job); firing someone; divorcing (one's spouse)

adjectival noun:

• (of one's time) free; (of one's business) slow ［ひま・ヒマ］

noun:

• leaving; departing ［いとま］ ➜ 御暇

noun:

• card to pick up (in card games); card that is picked up by players instead of read (in karuta); card printed with the second half of a poem (in karuta) ➜ 読み札

noun:

• person in the online community who seeks to identify others from the information they post online, or who tries to identify places and objects that appear in comics or games - derogatory term - slang

expression:

• money talks; money is the key that opens all doors; money is the best lawyer in hell; even in hell, the extent of one's suffering is determined by money [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take care of; to bring up under one's personal care
• to kill with one's own hands
• to do personally; to handle (e.g. a job)
• to request that someone deal with (something)

noun:

• staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen buddhism); itinerant priest's lodging - Buddhism term
• providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time - Buddhism term

noun:

• single crime that naturally consists of a number of incidences and is charged as only one count (e.g. habitual gambling)
• crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (e.g. insurrection) ➜ 集団犯罪

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; judge a man by living with him, and try a horse by riding him [literal] - proverb

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him [literal] - proverb ➜ 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】

expression:

• blue are the hills that are far away; the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; far away smells of flowers; close up smells of dung [literal] - proverb

noun:

• circle (sometimes used for zero) ➜ 丸【まる】
• 'correct' (when marking) ➜ 二重丸【にじゅうまる】
• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship) ➜ 〇〇【まるまる】
• period; full stop ➜ 句点
• maru mark; semivoiced sound; p-sound ➜ 半濁点

expression:

• I have to do something; that's something I have to do - dial. phrase popularized by Miyazaki mayor Hideo Higashikokubaru in 2007 ➜ どうにかして

noun / ~する noun:

• joining; joint
• intermediation; acting as an intermediary

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• relaying; taking over

noun:

• middle relief pitcher; middle reliever - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ 中継ぎ投手
• pole-shaped item with a join in the middle
• tea container with a lid that is the same size as the body

noun / adjectival noun:

• one's own convenience; one's way; selfishness

noun:

• surroundings; environment; way of doing things
• convenience; ease of use
• financial circumstances; living; livelihood
• kitchen ➜ 台所
• right hand (in archery); hand that pulls the bowstring

prefix noun:

• unauthorised (e.g. phone app, WWW site); unofficial

noun:

• free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

expression:

• as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of)
• apart from... (used to change the topic)
• even (e.g. "not even a single person") - before a negative form
• thinking that...; trying to... - after a volitional form ➜ とする

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いきじめ］ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】

noun:

• centerline (line that bisects a plane figure); centreline; center line; centre line
• (court) centerline; half court; mid court line - Sports term
• centerline (road); center line

noun:

• the three worms (in Taoism, worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings) ➜ 庚申待

noun:

• processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

noun:

• lipstick that actors put on their earlobes, cheeks and corners of eyes
• lipstick discreetly put on the earlobes or the corners of the eyes (by women)

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いけじめ］
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いけしめ
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いけしめ

noun:

• sitting outdoors - archaism
• room that served both as a reception room and as a living room in a Heian-period mansion ➜ 寝殿造り
• temporary sitting place installed in the garden at the imperial court, used on the occasion of archery or sumo ceremonies

noun:

• (fixing) boundaries for religious practices - Buddhism term
• prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice) - Buddhism term
• fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple - Buddhism term
• short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store - archaism ➜ 帳場格子
• barrier; dimensional barrier; containment zone; containment barrier; mystical barrier - esp. in games, manga, etc. - colloquialism

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to dig into (e.g. of fingernails)
• to eat into; to encroach; to make inroads; to penetrate (e.g. a market); to break into (e.g. first place); to erode; to cut into (e.g. time, savings)
• to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks) - vulgar