noun:

• knit; knitted fabric; knitted garments
• nit (unit of surface brightness equal to 1 candela per square meter)

noun:

• mountain folk; hermit
• mountain wizard ［やまびと］ ➜ 仙人
• word used as part of a pseudonym by artists, writers, etc. ［さんじん］

noun / ~する noun:

• caring for (esp. a pet or a small object); cherishing; being fond of; prizing; treasuring

noun:

• Coming of Age Day (second Monday in January. Prior to 2000 was Jan 15); Adult's Day

adverb:

• anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; all kinds of this; this and that

noun / ~する noun:

• no longer being fond of someone; spiteful words or acts showing that one is disgusted with someone

noun:

• cloth dyed in a dappled pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子絞り
• pattern of white spots; dapples - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子斑
• mochi containing red bean paste - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子餅
• fawn - original meaning - archaism ➜ 鹿【か】

noun:

• ladies' bicycle (of a kind often used by housewives, usu. with a basket in front); granny bike ➜ チャリ

ichidan verb:

• to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

noun:

• fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits) - four character idiom

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of geminate consonant, primarily a geminate 't' from vowel stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 撥音便

noun / ~する noun:

• absconding; taking oneself off; slipping out (home) unnoticed early (e.g. from work, out of parties, etc.)

noun:

• Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures (all administrative divisions of Japan except Tokyo-to)

noun:

• pota pota yaki (var. of senbei (rice cracker) coated with a sweet soy-sauce glaze on top)

noun:

• skewering one's food with a chopstick in order to pick it up (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• touching a food with one's chopsticks, then removing them without taking it (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• ringing one's chopsticks against a dish (in order to request seconds, etc.) (a breach of etiquette)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be so angry that one lashes out at unrelated things; to have an outburst of anger

expression:

• small mercy (from some misfortune); silver lining of a dark cloud; consolation in sadness; blessing in disguise

interjection:

• Aah!; Ooh!; Oh No!; Oh Boy!; expression of despair, resignation, boredom, disgust, etc. ➜ 嗚呼【ああ】

noun:

• darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae); devil's darning needle
• dragonfly (esp. a large one)

noun:

• Silver Week (any long string of Japanese public holidays other than Golden Week) - colloquialism ➜ ゴールデンウィーク

noun:

• sexual intercourse permitted (by a woman) due to a sense of obligation (rather than desire) - slang

noun:

• daggernose shark (Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus, species of requiem shark found in Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil)

noun:

• yellow monitor (Varanus flavescens, species of asian carnivorous monitor lizard found in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh)