noun:

• boxed lunch bought at a station (often a local specialty)
• variety of sexual position - vulgar

noun:

• (telephone) area code (non-local) ➜ 市内局番【しないきょくばん】

noun:

• tax allotment (to local government)

noun:

• ropivacaine (local anaesthetic)

noun:

• general election (of all members of a local government body) ➜ 地方公共団体

noun:

• special fast (local) train

noun:

• Ebisu (local dialect forms) - えべっさん can be 戎っさん - colloquialism ➜ 恵比寿

noun:

• soup with rice bran pickled or salted vegetables (e.g. carrots, daikon or potatoes) and fish (e.g. salmon, gadid or Arabesque greenling) boiled in a salty broth (sake lees is sometimes added) (Hokkaido local specialty dish) ➜ 糠漬け【ぬかづけ】

noun:

• costumed mascot character (oft. devised for PR purposes by local governments, government departments, etc.) ➜ キャラ・緩い

noun:

• type of sweet made with bean paste (local delicacy in Kyoto); cinnamon-seasoned cracknel (cookie)
• zigzag bridge

noun:

• transfer of tax revenue sources (e.g. to local governments)

noun:

• ground; land; earth; soil - abbreviation
• the region in question; the local area
• skin
• texture; fabric; material; weave
• base; background
• one's true nature
• narrative (i.e. descriptive part of a story)
• real life; actuality
• captured territory (in the game of go)
• noh chorus ➜ 地謡
• accompaniment music (in Japanese dance)
• basic phrase (in Japanese music; usu. repetitive)
• base part (of multiple shamisens)

noun:

• layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
• local manners; modern customs

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• common; popular
• vulgar; low Antonym: 雅【が】

noun:

• cap
• top reporter at a newspaper's local office
• captain - abbreviation

noun:

• from the area (e.g. person or goods)
• local trader; local merchant
• street tough; hoodlum controlling a territory (e.g. red light district, amusement area)

noun:

• self-government; autonomy ➜ 官治
• local (governmental) autonomy - abbreviation ➜ 地方自治

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• minimum; minuscule

noun:

• local minimum - Mathematics term

noun:

• shop used for testing sales of new products; showroom - From English "antenna shop" ➜ パイロットショップ
• shop selling local specialities to Tokyo

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• maximum

noun:

• local maximum - Mathematics term

noun:

• geographical name
• local name

noun:

• public bath; communal bath
• public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee

noun:

• straw-wrapped item; bundle of straw (containing a food item, etc.) ➜ 藁苞
• local produce; souvenir; present; gift ➜ 土産【みやげ】

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era ➜ 大新聞
• minor journal; local newspaper

noun:

• regulations; rules
• (local) regulation; ordinance; bylaw; law ［条例］

noun:

• var. of pottery from Hyogo prefecture
• round balls made from eggs, flour, etc., (local food of Akashi)