suffix noun:

• -like; pseudo-; mock ...; imitation ...; in the style of ...

noun:

• comical character who mocks or apes the main character (in Japanese performing arts)
• criticism; censure - archaism

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil) ➜ カリビアンリーフシャーク

noun:

• whitefin hammerhead (Sphyrna couardi, species of hammerhead shark found in the West African tropics of the eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Congo)

expression / noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame ➜ 閉月羞花・沈魚落雁

noun:

• character (i.e. kanji)
• hand-writing; penmanship
• the ... word (i.e. "the L word" = "love") - as 〜の字 ➜ ほの字

noun:

• tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle); bekko ➜ 玳瑁
• tortoiseshell (esp. of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle) - in Chinese medicine ➜ 鼈

noun:

• cold wind descending from the mountains
• cold Pacific wind (in the Tōhoku region in summer)

adverbial noun / noun:

• to the end of time; to the crack of doom; for ever and ever

noun:

• first day of the month - archaism
• first ten days of the lunar month

adverb:

• at the long end (e.g. hold); on the long side (e.g. cut) ➜ 長め

expression / noun:

• rain falling on cherry blossoms; rain at the time of the blossoming of cherry trees

noun:

• temperature sensitivity; sensitivity of the demand for electricity to a change of the atmospheric temperature

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to lay the foundation for (e.g. a theory); to lay the basis for

noun / ~する noun:

• dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip
• going the long way round; making a detour

noun:

• whole family; all (members of) the family
• all over the house
• retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain; clan ［かちゅう］

noun:

• hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right - Sumo term

expression:

• no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (in Japan) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・太簇
• (in gagaku) scale similar to the Dorian mode on E ➜ 律旋・六調子

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いきじめ］ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan

noun:

• wooden horse; rocking horse
• vaulting horse; horse used in gymnastics ➜ 跳馬
• the horse (ancient torture device that one was forced to straddle with rocks hanging from the feet)

expression:

• teaching your grandmother to suck eggs; teaching something to someone who knows more than you; preaching to the choir; lecturing to the Buddha [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• circumvention of the law; evasion of the law (by using legal means to obtain a result normally only obtainable by illegal ones)

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

noun:

• being unable to read the situation; being unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation - from the initials of 空気（が）読めない - abbreviation ➜ 空気が読めない