noun:

• tiger rearing; keeping a tiger - obscure term

noun:

• cat
• shamisen
• geisha
• wheelbarrow - abbreviation ➜ 猫車
• clay bed-warmer - abbreviation ➜ 猫火鉢
• bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism Antonym: タチ

noun:

• feeling; sensation; mood
• preparedness; readiness; attitude
• thanks; solicitude; sympathy - humble language

adverb:

• just a little; somewhat; slightly

noun / suffix noun:

• lesson
• section (in an organization); division; department

counter:

• counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)

noun / suffix noun:

• storey; story; floor

noun:

• stairs ➜ 階【きざはし】

noun / suffix noun:

• stage (in chronostratigraphy)

counter:

• counter for storeys and floors of a building

noun / ~する noun:

• running away from home; elopement
• outing; going out - archaism
• becoming a Buddhist monk; entering the priesthood - archaism

noun:

• benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism); consideration; compassion; humanity; charity ［じん］
• human ［じん］
• kernel
• nucleolus ［じん］ ➜ 核小体

noun:

• number of events (e.g. accidents, crimes, meetings, housing starts, hits on a web page)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• utterance; speaking; vocalization; vocalisation; enunciation; pronouncing
• leading a group of people (in cheering, singing, etc.)

noun:

• reference; comparison; example
• inquiry; enquiry
• witness; being involved in a court case; deal

noun:

• interval; space; interstice; threshold
• valley; gorge; ravine
• loophole (in a wall); crenel; eyelet

noun:

• tempura; deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter - From Portuguese "tempero, temporas"

noun:

• principal occupation; main job
• professional; an expert; specialist

pronoun:

• I (of a government official, etc.); me

noun:

• (Russell) snowplow; track-clearing vehicle - abbreviation ➜ ラッセル車
• carving a trail through deep snow (by foot when mountaineering)

noun:

• longtime best seller; book with steady sales over a long time - From English "long seller"

noun:

• ritual prayer; invocation of the gods participating in a rite - Shintō term
• congratulatory address ［しゅくし］ ➜ 祝辞【しゅくじ】

noun / ~する noun:

• taking care of one's health
• recuperation
• covering (with a protective material); coating
• curing (concrete)

noun:

• sewamono (in kabuki, etc., a domestic drama about ordinary people, esp. of the Edo period)

adverb / ~の noun:

• reasonably; fairly; all right; moderate - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• hurriedly; in a rush; having barely finished - in the form もそこそこに - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• approximately; about; or so

noun:

• sweet rice jelly
• Edo-period herbal medicine (used as an antitussive and a breath freshener) - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun / prefix noun:

• turbidity; cloudiness (of a liquid); opacity; muddiness (e.g. water, mind, consciousness)

noun / ~する noun:

• disorder; chaos ➜ 混乱

noun:

• vegetables; (edible) greens
• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

adjectival noun:

• eccentric; warped; narrow-minded; perverse; obstinate; stubborn; bigoted

noun:

• eccentricity; obstinacy; stubbornness; (a) crank

temporal noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• dawn; daybreak Antonym: 暮れ

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• end; soon after something has ended
• beginning (of a new year, month, etc.)

noun:

• tent
• tabernacle
• small curtain-enclosed area (off a stage)
• Makuya (Original Gospel Movement of Japan)