noun:

• arrow with feathers that curve to the right (the second of two arrows to be fired) ➜ 甲矢

noun:

• looking up and down, from heaven to earth (having nothing to be ashamed of); swearing by Heaven and Earth (having done nothing to be ashamed of) - four character idiom

expression:

• (to be ashamed enough) to wish you could just disappear

noun:

• parched flour, esp. barley (can be drunk in hot water with sugar) - Food term ➜ 麦こがし・香煎

expression:

• (to be) natural; (to be) understandable

noun:

• advance payment on behalf of a third party (with expectation that it will be reimbursed)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly); to imply something in a roundabout way - idiom

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

noun:

• outhouse (from which night-soil may be collected); privy ➜ 便壺

noun / ~の noun:

• suspicion of having (or to be making) nuclear weapons

noun:

• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

noun:

• four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)

noun:

• once-in-a-lifetime encounter (hence should be cherished as such) - four character idiom

noun:

• backmarker (competitor at the tail of the field, likely to be lapped)

noun:

• the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat) - four character idiom

noun:

• Mt Sumeru (in Buddhism - said to be the highest mountain rising in the center of the world) (centre)

noun:

• Piltdown hoax (1912 discovery of a fossilized ape-human missing-link skull, later revealed to be fraudulent) - obscure term ➜ ピルトダウン人

noun:

• inflatable (in the sense of "needs to be inflated for normal use")

noun:

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

noun:

• inflatable (in the sense of "can be inflated") ➜ 膨張式

suffix / counter:

• counter for loads (that can be carried on one's shoulders)

~の noun:

• guaranteed (to be genuine, valuable, etc.); certified (as genuine, valuable, etc.) ➜ 極めつき

noun:

• pièce de résistance - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting; acceptance ➜ ご了承

adverb / ~する noun:

• motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait); (be) still - じーっと is more emphatic. 凝乎と is rare. - onomatopoeia
• fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare); intently (e.g. listen, think)
• patiently (endure); stoically
• firmly (e.g. hold); restrained

noun:

• jinx; omen (can be a good omen)