noun:

• mountain forest; forest on a mountain; montane forest
• mountains and forest

expression:

• thank you for the meal; that was a delicious meal; what a wonderful meal

~と adverb / adverb:

• ding (of a bell); bing; ting; tinkle; ring - esp. チーン, ちーん - onomatopoeia
• honk (i.e. sound of blowing one's nose); snort - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• heating in a microwave; cooking in a microwave; microwaving; nuking - from the sound of the microwave timer; usu. チン - colloquialism ➜ チンする

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to have a feeling (that); to have a sensation (that)

particle:

• yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it? - used at sentence-end; indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical)
• or; whether or not - after each alternative
• some- (e.g. something, someone) - after an interrogative ➜ 何か
• hmm; huh - indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; sometimes after other particles ➜ とか

prefix:

• very - emphatic prefix; usu. before an adjective ➜ か弱い

suffix:

• -al; -ial; -ic; -ical; -ish; -y - suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; after an indeclinable word ➜ 定か

adverb:

• in that way - archaism

noun:

• yokozuna (highest rank in sumo); grand champion - Sumo term
• best in its field; crème de la crème; cream of the crop

noun / ~する noun:

• scattering (e.g. dust in the wind, enemies before an assault); dispersal; flying off (in all directions); flying apart

noun:

• labor system in which able-bodied men were required to work for periods in the capital (ritsuryo system)

expression / noun:

• group of independents; usu. informal grouping of independent politicians in the National Diet or in prefectural assemblies

noun:

• outline; main point; gist

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• general; substantially; approximately; about
• in the first place; to begin with; from the start

noun:

• Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock)

noun:

• sky burial (funeral ritual in which the body of the deceased is exposed to be eaten by birds)

noun:

• historical system whereby the Hida region provided 10 carpenters per village the central government in place of taxes

noun:

• Pseudotriakis (genus of ground shark in the family Pseudotriakidae whose sole member is the false catshark)

noun:

• Mustelus (genus of smooth-hound sharks in the family Triakidae); from the Latin mustela meaning weasel

noun:

• Luvarus (sole genus of perciform fish in the family Luvaridae whose only member is the luvar)

noun:

• wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

noun:

• feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)

auxiliary:

• seeming to be; appearing to be - usu. at sentence-end
• like; similar to ➜ ような
• in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that ➜ ように
• indicates hope, wish, request or mild command - as ように at sentence-end

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

noun:

• written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll)
• a text written entirely in kana
• graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries)
• notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.)
• rough draft

noun:

• piggybacking marketing; the method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• little three dragons; winning hand that contains two pungs or kongs of dragons and a pair of the third dragon - Mahjong term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end) - slang - IT term

noun:

• opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines