noun:

• persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story - colloquialism ➜ 泣き落とし

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - abbreviation ➜ リクルートラブ

noun / ~する noun:

• putting flyers into mailboxes
• posting (to online message boards, etc.)
• posting (accounting transactions)

noun:

• tower-shaped wooden talisman
• apron-shaped straw deity to ward off disease

noun:

• returning of a package to depot after a failed delivery attempt

expression / noun:

• close acquaintance; relationship where two people are close enough to use familiar language ➜ 爾汝【じじょ】

expression:

• to study and not think is a waste; learning without thinking is useless - from The Analects of Confucius - proverb

expression / adjective:

• depending largely on; playing a large role in; due largely to - as ～によるところが大きい

noun / ~する noun:

• thoroughness; completeness; consistency
• thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

noun:

• surname; family name
• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing) ［せい］ ➜ 姓【かばね】

noun / ~する noun:

• admission (e.g. to a training institution, research establishment, social welfare facility, etc.); entrance
• imprisonment; internment; confinement

expression / ~の noun:

• so far; up to now; hitherto

expression:

• that's enough (for today); it ends here

expression / adjective:

• it is not (like that); used to explicitly deny one thing while also implicitly denying other things

interjection:

• eh?; what?; oh?
• yes; that's correct ➜ はい

particle:

• strengthens a question, assertion, etc. - at sentence end - archaism ➜ かえ・ぞえ・わえ
• used when calling out to someone - after a noun, etc. - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; inducement to stay
• being stranded; grounding
• level dyeing ［足留め・足留］

adverb:

• sound of heavy breathing - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• blowing on something (e.g. to cool it down)

noun:

• country's official writing system; native script
• kana ➜ 仮名【かな】
• kanji that originated in Japan (as opposed to China) ➜ 漢字

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

noun:

• modal shift (esp. changes in freight transport, e.g. from air to sea)

noun / ~する noun:

• biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building); plunging to one's death

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

noun:

• Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity") - obscure term ➜ オッカムの剃刀

noun:

• good turning point number (10000, 12345 etc., often referring to web site visit counts)

noun:

• link banner (graphic or logo provided for use in linking to web site) - IT term