expression:

• head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to write ruby characters (small furigana above or beside kanji) ➜ ルビ・振り仮名

noun / suffix noun:

• sign; indication; trace; touch; feeling

prefix noun:

• somehow; for some reason; seeming to be

expression:

• great vigor; tremendous energy; forceful enough to knock down birds in flight [literal] - idiom

noun:

• tonfa (traditional Okinawan weapon similar to a nightstick) - Ryūkyū dialect

noun:

• short clip used to begin and end commercial breaks on Japanese TV - From English "eyecatch"

noun:

• Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)

noun:

• droit de suite (artist's right to receive a royalty on resale)

expression:

• great vigor; tremendous energy; forceful enough to knock down birds in flight [literal] - idiom ➜ 飛ぶ鳥を落とす勢い

noun:

• making something freely available (information, access to a competition, etc.)

expression / adjective:

• lazy; indolent; reluctant to get up off one's backside
• clumsy

expression / ichidan verb:

• to rush out from one's mouth (words, phrases, etc.)

noun:

• maneuver to shake, flick, or wipe blood off of a sword - Martial Arts term

expression:

• a bad person does not deserve to die in his own bed - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• adding or removing rolling stock to a train that is in service

noun:

• animated film released direct-to-video - From English "original video animation"

godan ~む verb:

• to include in a poem (season word, place name, etc.)

noun:

• guaranty; guarantee
• fee paid to performing artists, etc.

noun:

• bonus paid to sports people for excellent performance - From English "talent money"

noun:

• pharmacy (esp. one without facilities to prepare their own medicines); drugstore; chemist

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to spend all of one's time in idle amusement

noun:

• telegram sent at night (usually to make use of a reduced rate)

noun:

• cloudy catshark (Scyliorhinus torazame, species found from Japan and Korea to Taiwan)

noun:

• perentie (Varanus giganteus, largest species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia)

noun:

• mother (fungal colony used to start fermentation); starter culture; seed fungus