noun:

• ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind

noun:

• attending foreign language study at a school near the train station (esp. used as a NOVA catchphrase)

noun:

• iteration mark used to represent repetition of the previous kanji (to be read using its kun-yomi) ➜ 踊り字

noun:

• pit (of a fruit); stone - obscure term
• core
• tongue (piece of wood used to connect two boards)
• clitoris

expression:

• baby-making machine (famously used by Health, Labour and Welfare Minister Yanagisawa Hakuo to refer to women)

noun:

• dragon flute; medium-pitched bark-covered bamboo transverse flute with seven holes, used in gagaku

noun:

• roadside land prices; price of land adjoining a major road, used to calculate inheritance and gift taxes

noun:

• person; character; figure; personage; man; woman
• one's character; one's personality
• able person; talented person

noun:

• one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin - four character idiom

noun:

• one's free time; one's time off; day off; time-out - From English "off time" ➜ オンタイム

noun / ~の noun:

• under the wing (esp. of an aircraft)
• under one's wing; under one's control

expression / ichidan verb:

• to set one's sights on; to take aim (at); to have one's mind on

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to avert one's eyes; to avoid looking straight at something; to cover one's eyes

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to soak; to saturate; to suckle; to make one hold something in the mouth; to include; to instruct; to make one understand ➜ 含む

godan ~す verb:

• to soak; to saturate; to suckle; to make one hold something in the mouth; to include; to instruct; to make one understand

noun:

• two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets of paper - ateji for "ream"; also written as 嗹
• stanza; verse - also written as 聯
• tribe (in taxonomy) - Biology term
• quinella; quiniela - abbreviation ➜ 連勝式

suffix noun:

• party; company; group; set

counter:

• counter for things strung in a line, e.g. pearls, dried fish, spans of a bridge, etc. - also written as 聯
• counter for falcons - obsolete term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind
• to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape
• to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)
• to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances
• to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with
• to download; to copy from a computer to another medium - IT term
• to make someone swoon (judo) - Martial Arts term
• to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
• to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)

noun:

• red eyes; bloodshot eyes
• red-eye ➜ 赤目現象
• red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 赤目魚
• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to have the ladder pulled out from under one [literal]

noun:

• Korean flute (horizontal bamboo flute with six holes; highest-pitched flute used in gagaku)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to slip on (slippers, sandals, etc.)
• to hit (e.g. one's leg) against; to bash into
• to push (one's opponent) down before he stands up - Sumo term

noun:

• box; case; chest; package; pack; crate
• car (of a train, etc.)
• shamisen case; shamisen
• public building; community building - often written as ハコ - colloquialism ➜ 箱物
• man who carries a geisha's shamisen - archaism ➜ 箱屋
• receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces) - archaism

suffix / counter:

• counter for boxes (or boxed objects)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal] - idiom ➜ 身を粉にする【みをこにする】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal]

noun:

• Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi) ➜ 勅撰和歌集