expression:

• ahead; further on; beyond (this place)
• before this; prior to this; earlier

noun:

• normal rice (as opposed to mochi rice); non-sticky rice ➜ 粳【うる】

noun:

• debt trap; debt hell; being in debt up to one's ears

noun:

• people living in the country; people living inland; Japanese in Japan proper; people living on Honshu

~の noun / noun:

• not covered (e.g. of a sports opponent); unobserved; under the radar - From English "no mark"
• unmarked (e.g. of a product); unlabelled

noun:

• compound ideograph formation (one of the six kanji classifications); making kanji up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain) ➜ 会意文字

noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun:

• near; neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity ➜ 近い

suffix noun:

• nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to

adverb:

• shortly; soon

noun:

• path

noun / ~する noun:

• pass (e.g. skipping a move, passing an examination, ticket to allow entry, etc.)
• pass - Sports term

noun / ~する noun:

• formation; molding; making up; taking form; giving form to

noun:

• repair (e.g. plastic surgery); replacement; -plasty - Medicine term ➜ 形成手術【けいせいしゅじゅつ】

adverbial noun / noun:

• non-leap year
• normal year (esp. as pertains to weather patterns, vegetative growth, harvest yields, etc.)

adjectival noun / noun:

• impossible; incapable (of doing); unable (to do)

noun:

• incompetence; inability
• impotence ➜ インポテンツ
• having no solution (of an equation) - Mathematics term

noun:

• tool; means
• ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.)

counter:

• counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.

noun:

• legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine) ➜ 側室・本妻
• room for receiving guests ➜ 表座敷【おもてざしき】
• heir; successor - obscure term

noun:

• (police) legwork; house-to-house inquiry; canvassing; investigation carried out by questioning neighbours, bystanders, etc.

noun:

• administrative scrivener; notary public; paralegal qualified to prepare legal documents on administrative matters, e.g. immigration

noun:

• ginjō sake; high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60%

noun:

• adding sounds to a soundtrack after a film has been made; postrecording; postsynchronization; postsynchronisation; postlooping; dubbing - abbreviation - From English "after recording" ➜ アフターレコーディング

noun:

• lady's pin money (pocket money); payment to a cosmetician ［けしょうりょう］
• cosmetic material ［けしょうりょう］
• dowry (Edo period)

noun:

• obligatory gift chocolate; chocolate given by women to male acquaintances on Valentine's day ➜ 本命チョコ

noun / ~する noun:

• descent (to earth, esp. of a god); advent; epiphany
• arrival (of an important person); appearance

noun:

• an extremely great number (often said to be 100 million) - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "nayuta"

numeric:

• 10^60 (or 10^72)

noun:

• feigning innocence, ignorance or naivety
• someone (esp. a woman) pretending to be innocent, ignorant or naive

noun / ~する noun:

• gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else

noun:

• piece of stiff fabric worn under an obi to give more shape
• batten plate; stay plate

noun:

• collision; bumping into
• head-to-head training; drill consisting of pushing and being pushed; battering practice - abbreviation - Sumo term ➜ ぶつかり稽古