noun:

• now-now-ism; being interested only in the here and now without any regard for the future

expression:

• something that comes too late and is useless; like a chrysanthemum prepared for the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar for the Chrysanthemum festival but that blooms only on the tenth ➜ 重陽

noun:

• partial bath; submerging only part of the body in water

expression:

• the poor can't afford manners; only when basic needs for living are met can people spare the effort to be polite - proverb

adjectival noun:

• temporary (of medical care); pallative; dealing only with the symptoms; symptomatic - Medicine term
• superficial

noun:

• Pseudocarchariidae; family whose only member is a species of mackerel shark known as the crocodile shark

adverb / ~する noun:

• in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely

expression:

• not to mention ...; needless to say ...; not to speak of ...; not only ... - after 〜は or 〜も

adjectival noun:

• negligent; neglectful; careless; remiss - archaism ➜ 疎か【おろそか】

noun:

• way; course; the only way

expression:

• very improbable; vanishingly unlikely; only with a miracle

expression:

• in any way; to some extent; even if only a little

noun:

• permanent edition; timeless edition; collector's version; only issue of non-regularly printed magazine or mook

expression:

• No Unauthorized Persons; No Unauthorized Entry; Authorized Personnel Only - on signage

expression / godan ~む verb:

• never being satisfied with what one gets, and always wanting more; giving someone an inch and having them take a mile; taking Gansu only to want Sichuan [literal] - idiom

expression:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom

noun:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom ➜ 不立文字

expression:

• starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught - proverb ➜ 泥縄【どろなわ】・泥縄式【どろなわしき】

expression / ~の noun:

• single; solo; solitary; just one; only one ➜ たった

noun:

• yacht (usually only used for a sailing boat with one mast); sailing boat; sailboat

noun:

• eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son

noun:

• wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead)
• going badly (one's business, one's fortune, the economy); being in a bad financial situation

noun:

• the beginning (as in "this is only the beginning") ［序の口］
• lowest division in sumo - Sumo term

noun:

• reflexive pronoun (in Japanese grammar only) - obscure term - Linguistics term ➜ 再帰代名詞

noun:

• true fruit (i.e. one that forms from the ovary only) ➜ 偽果

noun:

• reflexive pronoun (in Japanese grammar only) - obscure term - Linguistics term ➜ 再帰代名詞