noun:

• putting on a knowing air when one only knows the title of the book (play, etc.); pretending to understand the nature of something when one only knows its name - four character idiom

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:

• hardship now, pleasure later; seeking pleasure only after dealing with difficulties; seeking pleasure only after the happiness of the people is assured (a precept to be observed by a ruler) - four character idiom

adverbial noun / noun:

• limit; limits; bounds
• degree; extent; scope
• as far as possible; as much as possible; to the best of one's ability; very much
• unless (after neg. verb)
• the end; the last

suffix:

• as long as; only

conjunction:

• but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; also; as well

particle:

• even
• however; no matter how; even if; even though
• ... or something
• either ... or ...; neither ... nor ... - as 〜でも〜でも

prefix:

• pseudo-; quack; in-name-only - before an occupation, etc.
• for lack of anything better to do - before an occupation, etc. ➜ でもしか

adjective:

• painful; difficult; tough; hard
• distressing; (psychologically) difficult; stressful; awkward (e.g. position)
• straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation); needy; struggling
• strained (interpretation, explanation, etc.); lame (e.g. excuse); forced (e.g. smile); far-fetched

auxiliary adjective / adjective:

• hard to do; unpleasant - after -masu stem of verb; often ぐるしい ➜ 寝苦しい【ねぐるしい】・見苦しい【みぐるしい】

noun:

• make-or-break game in a go or shogi tournament
• ozeki-ranked wrestler being in danger of losing his rank if he fails to win 8 or more bouts in a 15-day tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• palace room for government officials or ladies in waiting
• room inside a palace or private estate allocated to employees; person living in such a room
• boarding house for trainee administrators (Ritsuryo period) ➜ 大学寮

noun:

• thank you gift; gift given as thanks for a favor or for attending a funeral, etc.
• gift sent from a locality to a tax payer as part of the "furusato nozei" tax scheme ➜ ふるさと納税

noun:

• Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 四諦

expression / adjective:

• it can't be helped; it is inevitable; nothing can be done; there's no point (in doing something); there's no reason (to do something)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• reverse movement; retrogression; going backwards; moving in the wrong direction; running counter to (e.g. the laws of nature); running against (e.g. the tide of the times) Antonym: 順行
• retrogradation; retrogression - Astronomy term

noun:

• heavenly god; heavenly gods - also pronounced てんしん
• spirit of Sugawara no Michizane
• Tenmangu shrine (dedicated to Michizane's spirit) ➜ 天満宮
• pit of a dried plum; dried plum - colloquialism ➜ 梅干し
• tenjin hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 天神髷
• prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• cooking for oneself; cooking one's own food; doing one's own cooking; making food oneself; self-catering
• scanning a book or magazine to create an ebook by oneself

noun:

• enshrinement of two or more deities in one building of a shrine; shrine building dedicated to two or more deities

noun:

• financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence
• living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time

expression / noun:

• formidable person; shrewd person; someone not to be taken lightly; person of no common order
• certain person (e.g. whose name cannot be disclosed); someone
• that sort of person; that kind of person - archaism

noun:

• hand; arm - occ. pronounced た when a prefix ➜ お手【おて】
• forepaw; foreleg - colloquialism ➜ お手【おて】
• handle
• hand; worker; help
• trouble; care; effort
• means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship
• hand; handwriting
• kind; type; sort
• one's hands; one's possession ➜ 手に入る
• ability to cope ➜ 手に余る
• hand (of cards)
• direction ➜ 山の手

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• move (in go, shogi, etc.)

expression:

• leave no room for scandal; don't do anything that can be misinterpreted; don't straighten your cap under a plum tree (because when you raise your hands it might look as if you're trying to steal the plums) [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• running errands; going on errands
• (transaction of) business; going about one's business
• doing one's business (i.e. at the toilet); going to the washroom
• purveying; purveyor - esp. 用達 ➜ 御用達

expression:

• a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband

noun:

• 180.39 millilitres; 180.39 milliliters ➜ 合【ごう】
• 0.3306 square metres; 0.3306 square meters ➜ 合【ごう】
• one-tenth of the way (from the foot of a mountain to the top) ➜ 合【ごう】

expression:

• taking the opportunity to do something; doing something incidentally; doing something while (you) are at it; doing something on the way; while I'm at it - idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• fiercely (e.g. of a fire burning) - onomatopoeia
• bong-bong (of clock ringing) - onomatopoeia
• with repeated bangs (e.g. of fire cracker) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• striking clock - abbreviation - onomatopoeia ➜ ぼんぼん時計
• green young man from a well-to-do family - Kansai dialect

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - proverb